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Dershowitz slams Goldstone for 'spreading lies'
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 23.11.09, 10:38
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31. beacuse...dear no 3.
adir ,   Israel   (11.23.09)
we are democratic country and a man cannot be fired because what he say truth or TOTAL LIES. im not saying what he did what right cuz its not in fact its totally wrong to tell such lies for a man in hes position. but....we are not gaza or iran... we wont stone ppl to death,hang them or torture and shoot them because they looked on a different man because they said something against the goverment or because they ware gays... yup its sux that hes still there and not lost hes job but he lost hes credibility, reliability call it whatever you want no one will belive him anymore and sure wont take him seriously here in Israel. but as i said countless of time the world is blind and only when its TOO LATE they will do something...and unfortunatly its including the current Israeli goverment who is weak and i doubt it that they will hang on much more.
32. Morals and legality.
Ron B. ,   Lod   (11.23.09)
The rules of international law governing the use of force by victims of aggression are embarrassingly unjust and would never be tolerated by any domestic criminal law system. They give the advantage to unlawful aggressors and thereby undermine international justice, security and stability. Article 51 of the U.N. Charter forbids all use of force except that for "self-defense if an armed attack occurs. Israel's raid on Uganda's Entebbe Airport in 1976—to rescue the victims of an airplane hijacking by Palestinian terrorists—was also illegal under Article 51. More at: http://xrl.us/bfq4r7
33. To SARAH B - You are my HERO!!
Jeffrey ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (11.23.09)
Keep up the great work on all your posts throughout Ynet, you are literally the salt of the earth, and one of Israels most valued fighters... and you deserve to know that.
34. Sarah B 25
Talking facts   (11.23.09)
What did you habe for breakfast, Sarah ? Your stink the entire network with foul smelling lies - AS USUAL: - How would you characterize over 40 years of colonial occupation -How would youcharacterize an apth'd rule that makes S.African rule look like child play How would you characterize the lying propaganda that reverses facts on the ground acusing others of what Israel itself is practicing How would you characterize the killing of 7,398 Pa;lestinians against 1483 israelis Gon on with your lies and fabrications: Daily Missles Barrages??? this what you call these fire crackers??? OOOOh, get a life.... you are below the task
35. To: No. 26
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.23.09)
Liar. Do you seriously believe that Neturei Karta and Satmar "Jews" represent mainstream Jewiish thought? Here's a news flash: You so-called "Jews" are an embarrassment to all Jews, everywhere.
36. Goldstone knows he is going to lose
Eyal ,   USA   (11.23.09)
the real debate Dershowitz, thereby looking like a real fool in his own turf in front of his students, but the money he got for sleeping with the enemies of Israel is much greater (lots of silver). This is why he can't debate Deshowitz, cause he will lose and an investigation of his report will cause the UNHR to close down. Their is a saying Goldstone likes very much....as greedy as a Pig.
37. #5 and #18
Heather ,   London   (11.23.09)
Israel committed war crimes on what evidence? The evidence of Hamas and terrorists, the same people who said there had been a massacre in Jenin when there hadn't. The same people who dug up bodies to make it smell like there had been a massacre, the same people who film staged killings, the same people who threw their opponents off roof tops and killed them in hospital beds, the same people who hid in schools, mosques and hospitals to fire on Israeli civilians. And you believe these people? More fool you!
38. No 26
Sam ,   London   (11.23.09)
And those arch Jew haters Finklestein and Cholmsky do represent the views of American Jews?
39. A geberation ago and goldstone,finklestein
jason white ,   afula,israel   (11.23.09)
and chomsky would have been boycotted by Jews and not allowed to open their filthy mouths. Why isn't goldstone and his family shunned by the Jews of the world and excommunicated from Judaism. We do not need moslems, neo nazis or the White House to try to destroy us, we have an enemy within that we refuse to expel.
40. DERSHOWITZ
MARY MILLER ,   CHICAGO   (11.23.09)
DERSHOWITZ IS THE MOST OBNOXIOUS HYPOCRITE LEGALIST IN THE U.S TODAY AND CAN NEVER SAY THE RIGHT THING, I SUGGEST HE ASKS WHO GOLDSTONE IS BEFORE CALLING HIM NAMES.
41. Dershowitz is wright on the button.
Eric... ,   Israel...   (11.23.09)
Goldstone should be ashamed,first for telling lies about Israel and second for being a Jew.The Jewish people have one place on this earth which is ours and that is Israel.Goldstone your a Jew,
42. Goldstone fills my heart with hope for Jews and Justice
Tayfun_Turkey   (11.23.09)
Most of time I fell in bleak mood if Jews can be distinguished from Zionism, though I never equate Jews to Zionism, Now Goldstone fill my heart with hope for Jews being indepenent from Zionism, And also Justice Goldstone showed even most clubby and most clannish society like Jews may act fair... Now we must all act the same and see wrongs of our own nation and should distinguish ourselves from our nation if what our nation did is not correct.
43. Exposing Goldstone
John ,   U.K   (11.23.09)
Just read a report exposing Goldstone , that he kept a 13 year old boy in jail for protesting against his country's apartheid policy back in 1986 . Goldstone also ruled against two appellents who have been convicted for possession of a cassette tape that had a recording of an interview with the founding member of the A.N.C the country's liberation movement.Now what that makes him ?
44. Talking facts
Daniel ,   Manchester   (11.23.09)
You answer is an object lesson in how to lie and distort facts. How do you explain Palestinian apartheid that makes it a death penalty to sell land to Jews while demanding that they have the right to live in any part of Israel that they choose? Please try and justify the persecution of Christians in Palestinian territories and why so many have fled? Firecrackers you call them the missiles that rained down on Sderot and the Negev for 8 years? Tell that to the people killed and injured by them and the 98% of Sderot's children who are suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome. How many dead Israelis would satisfy you? Actually don't answer that because I know what it would be, all seven million of them.
45. No. 18, the irish voice of reason
simon ,   bham uk   (11.23.09)
hmmm, hiding behind civilians, murdering civilians and non combatants all because they think "my religions better than yours", indescriminate bombing of women and kids in other countries. All war crimes.....and that wasnt Hamas or Israel, that was the IRA for the last 30 years!!! And you have the nerve to criticise Israel. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
46. No.34
simon ,   bham UK   (11.23.09)
What really would be funny would be to ram one of those "fire crackers" right where the sun dont shine and then see how amusing you found them to be then!
47. He debated Dore Gold and was proven unable to justiry his
Rivi ,   Boston, MA USA   (11.23.09)
anti-Jewish stand. No wonder he refuses to deal with yet another well known and capable Jewish lawyer. Perhaps, when the first Goldstones begin to fall on israel and kill Jewish children, Goldstone will find it appropriate for what he has done to the Jewish people and its national home of Israel. But him being Goldstone, perhaps not...
48. Dershowitz Rocks .....
rachel ,   usa   (11.23.09)
#1 Alan Dershowitz has been defending Israel from liars for a long time
49. To #34 - Talking Facts...heheh
Eyal ,   USA   (11.23.09)
Israel does not occupy any Arab Land. Please get this through your thick and stubborn dumb brain of yours. It is the Arabs that stole Jewish Lands. Israel personally should have crushed and killed everyone in Gaza (I wish and pray they did), but they didn't. South Africa is no comparison to Israel. No lies here...Israel killed mostly terrorists is Gaza and some women and children that terrorists hid in front of. It amazes me how you never criticize the real criminals and that's the Arabs and the Mullah's. You are so funny, you state "How would you characterize the killing of 7,398 Palestinians against 1483 israeli's" Let me ask you this, how would you characterize the the prisoner exchange of thousands of Palestinians with 1 Gilad Schalit? I guess you Pal prisoners are really worthless ha? Does that answer your question? 1 Israel is worth thousands Palestinians. Talk about your Arab Propaganda and the daily lies. You Arabs are the biggest at that, so you get a life and stop the BS.
50. # 42 - no difference between Jews and Zionists
Eyal ,   usa   (11.23.09)
We are all the same proud people. What are you? Based on your message you posted, it shows how dumb the Turks are.
51. #9 Finkelstein is a complete idiot....
rachel ,   usa   (11.23.09)
If you look up to this man ....you' v got a problem
52. Carter wouldn't debate either. Goldstone failed against Gold
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (11.23.09)
Former President "Peanut" Carter also refused to debate Dershowitz at Brandeis. Dershowitz wasn't even allowed in the building until Carter had left. Goldstone *did* debate former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold. The best Goldstone could do against Gold's facts and videos was to focus on his background and determination to be fair. That doesn't cut it. When asked what he would have considered a "proportionate" response by Israel to the rockets, Goldstone simply had no answer. For those who *really* want to understand the Report and where it went wrong, read http://goldstonereport.org .
53. Goldtoane should never have accepted the job
Australian Guy ,   Australia   (11.23.09)
For those that want lay the blame for Goldstone's report being what it is... a hotch-potch of lies and bullshit...at Israel's feet for not "co-operating"...What is this?! If Goldstone had any sense of justice and wanting provide a worthwhile report , knowing that it was not possible - he would have simply walked away from the task. If you cannot guarantee that your report is going to be worth anything - DON'T DO IT. (He got BIG MONEY though for this "report" ,didn't he?)
54. Kol HaKovod to Prof Dershowitz
Yossi ,   NYC USA   (11.23.09)
Our best soldier in the public and legal arena. Kol HaKovod to Prof Dershowitz.
55. Dershowitz, the man who got OJ off is a political hack...
BBSNews ,   Charlotte, NC   (11.23.09)
He is a volatile, hateful little man trying to keep in the spotlight. He is the polar opposite of the internationally respected Richard Goldstone. Dershowitz is a professional liar, and an accomplished twister of truth and facts with the sole intended goal to get the guilty off the hook. (OJ, now Israel) That's all he is doing in this case also. Trying to get the obviously guilty off the hook. There are millions of us that watched live on satellite TV and saw what Israel did. The whole ghastly mess, including targeting the journalists themselves.
56. Sarah B, please stop embarrassing yourself...
BBSNews ,   Charlotte, NC   (11.23.09)
The world knows full well of the 8000 homemade slung over the shoulder little rockets and mortars that Palestinian militants fired indiscriminately at Sderot and other parts of Israel - it was fully documented in the Goldstone Report where it was described as a possible crime against humanity. During that whole time, Israel didn't sit on its hands, nope. Israel fired many thousands more than Hamas and co could ever hope to have, into the occupied territories killing many civilians in the process. AN MIT researcher and her team published a study of the entire timeline, it found that Israel struck first in nine out of ten cases, prompting the rockets in the first place. Perhaps you should study more? If you did you would know that Israel entering into a ceasefire it never intended to keep was perfidy, and after all, it was Israel that broke the ceasefire on November 4, 2008.
57. 46 - Simon
Heather ,   London   (11.23.09)
Well said, can I be the one to shove it up where the sun don't shine? What an idiot he is to try and say that the missiles unleashed on Israel are firecrackers. I have personally been to Sderot and seen the damage these missiles do. For further information about the fact that these are not firecrackers visit www.sderotmedia.com and see what damage they really do.
58. Tayfun from Istanbul. Does Orhan Pamuk fill your heart too?
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (11.23.09)
You know, when Orhan Pamuk said to a reporter in Switzerland that Turks indeed committed genocide against Armenians and Kurds the entire Turkey shunned him while thw world rewarded him with a Nobel prize. Does Orhan Pamuk fill your heart with hope for Turkey? Inquiring minds wnat to know.
59. Eyal, you pray for the death of 1.5 million?
BBSNews ,   Charlotte, NC   (11.23.09)
And you admit this in public? Do you know how sick that is? I pray you seek immediate mental help before you hurt yourself or others.
60. #39
London guy ,   London   (11.23.09)
You could well ask all those questions about yourself, as your vision of a post-nuclear holocaust Israel (a vision which you fleefully call for time and time again) would make you the greatest enemy of the people in history.
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