10 Criticisms of Israel

Dershowitz is very cynical, his book is completely one-sided and he ignores evidence that supports the Palestinian's cause. Many of his arguments are very thin and he lists about every single crime against the Israeli people but almost none on Palestinians.

He often presents his argument really early in the chapter and then rambles on for pages on crimes against the Jews that often don't have any relevance to his arguments. Am I suppose to believe that the Palestinians have a monopoly on violence in the region. In addition he tries to discredit Noam Chomsky, the most well-known and respected political thinker in the world.

Some of his arguments are so weak. I expect more from a prominant lawyer. In the section on Israeli's human rights record, he tries to justify it by saying that: Well, umm, Arab countries do it too. If I wrote that on a Political Science essay I would get a D. That does not justify Human rights violations nor does it give them a blank check.

Worst yet, he tries to pin the holocaust on the Palestinians by claiming that they had a moral obligation to accept Jews running away from Europe. The truth is that the entire western world is quilty of this. That's why the west recognized Israel because they didn't want Jewish people to come to their country. Canada and the United States turned away ships of Jews that were trying to escape and sent them back to Europe to die in camps. If we really want to prosecute everyone who is partly responsible for the holocaust then we can even blame German Jews who voted for the Nazis. But don't pin it on the Palestinians who are far less responsible than most people.

Although the democrats aren't the best I could never go for the party thats considered the poster boy for the bible. The Republicans are now also know as the bible party, and conservatives want to push their traditions and beliefs on the rest of the country and thats exactly what we are fighting now in the mid east.

I just wish a there can be a 3rd party that supports the original values of America, but still keeping control on the major aspects needed. We learned from the depression that the gov't needed to get into business and other things. But for the gov't to tell us whats morally wrong and to pry into our personal lives is wrong and un- American.

I'm a more secular conservative when it comes to social issues.  I've never been one who thinks that religion should interfere with any political decisions.  I really believe in conservatism because I believe that the good of the state is more important than excessive individual freedom and that rationality and social darwinism are better philosophies than the sentimentality and weak-mongering of liberals.