Three weeks ago, President Bush stood beside Ariel Sharon and gave America’s blessing to the Israeli Prime Minister’s plan to keep some West Bank settlements, and deny Palestinian refugees the right of return to Israel. In the turbulent weeks since then, another Hamas leader was assassinated, and Sharon’s own Likud Party rejected his plan to withdraw from Gaza.
U.S. diplomats sent a letter scolding President Bush over his support for Sharon, saying that he has “proved that the U.S. is not an even-handed peace partner.” Alan Dershowitz says this criticism is part of a trend, wherein, as he puts it, the cacophony of unreasonable, double-standard and extreme condemnations of Israel drown out any criticism that is reasonable, comparable and contextual” America’s most famous defense attorney makes The Case for Israel.
Guests:
Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor and author of several books, including “The Case for Israel,” and “The Vanishing American Jew.”