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Dershowitz: Goldstone is a traitor to the Jewish people

By Haaretz Service

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Prominent political commentator Professor Alan Dershowitz slammed jurist Richard Goldstone, the architect of a UN report which accuses Israel of Gaza war crimes, saying he is a traitor to the Jewish people, Army Radio reported Sunday.

Dershowitz and Goldstone hadbeen colleagues and close friends for many years before the UN Gaza probe, but once Goldstone published his report the ties between the two were severed. "The Goldstone report is a defamation written by an evil, evil man," Dershowitz said.

In an interview with Army Radio, Dershowitz said he is appalled by the report and can't fathom how it could have been written by a Jew. He said it is as if a Jew would have written the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and that the jurist is using the fact that his last name is 'Goldstone' to substantiate the report's defamation against the Jewish people.

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Dershowitz said he doesn't believe he should be a part of an Israeli internal inquiry into last winter's Gaza offensive, but said that he would be happy to help if he was asked to.

The professor said that in his opinion, the best way to deal with the report is to set up an Israeli committee headed by a reputable Israeli judge, suggesting former Supreme Court presidents Aharon Barak and Meir Shamgar.

Former minister and Meretz chairwoman Shulamit Aloni responded to Dershowitz's comments, saying that Goldstone is far from a traitor. "Dershowitz's statements border on hate. Goldstone is a Zionist Jew who was simply doing his job," Aloni told Army Radio.

Aloni further went on to say that Dershowitz is a despicable man who opposes the left and supports the settlers. "His opinion doesn't count in my eyes, and the way he speaks of Goldstone is disgraceful," Aloni said.

"The Goldstone report isn't entirely accurate, though we cannot ignore the fact that we did violate international law - the IDF used phosphorus and bombed schools and hospitals," said Aloni.

The former minister also attacked the defense minister, saying "Ehud Barak is the most dangerous man in the state of Israel."

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1.	Goldbrick & Aloni	13:33	\|	Thor	31/01/10

2.	That`s why Meretz is irrelevant	13:37	\|	Joe Frazier	31/01/10

3.	Dershowitz and Goldstone	13:41	\|	Deb	31/01/10

4.	Dershowitz is the one who`s doing the defaming..	13:57	\|	vernon marriott	31/01/10

5.	What you mean Dershowitz who got OJ off?	13:57	\|	Michael	31/01/10

6.	It took an evil man to defend double killer simpson	14:16	\|	Labhras	31/01/10

7.	Joe Frazier = moron	14:22	\|	David	31/01/10

8.	Prof. Dershowitz	14:27	\|	Robeert	31/01/10

9.	Dershowitz is right	14:35	\|	Brod	31/01/10

10.	Its the guilt speaking	14:43	\|	Norwegian	31/01/10

11.	Dershowitz Is Correct	14:44	\|	Ron	31/01/10

12.	#4 and #7, Here is Prof Dershowitz`s critique of the report	14:44	\|	Ben	31/01/10

13.	Dershowitz Goes Home	14:51	\|	Zeidan	31/01/10

14.	Can`t live without scurrilous headlines	14:56	\|	Ussishkin	31/01/10

15.	Goldstone a traitor to the Jews	15:11	\|	Ezer	31/01/10

16.	Bias- question to Goldstone and his answer	15:15	\|	Yacoub	31/01/10

17.	This tells more about Dershowitz than anything else	15:18	\|	Steven	31/01/10

18.	Dershowitz is only human as well	15:21	\|	FT	31/01/10

19.	Why? Name-calling:"EVIL"	15:44	\|	Stephen A	31/01/10

20.	Dershowitz brilliance is leading him	15:44	\|	Joe	31/01/10

21.	Dershowitz defense attorney OJ	15:44	\|	Larry Levine	31/01/10

22.	Prof. Dershowitz	15:45	\|	jake 1948	31/01/10

23.	Conflict of Interest	15:47	\|	ol` Case	31/01/10

24.	According to Robeert	15:49	\|	jake 1948	31/01/10

25.	#6 labarse of arabia knows more than dershowitz?	15:50	\|	vhardman	31/01/10

26.	do the anti israel brigade understand	15:52	\|	vhardman	31/01/10

27.	#5 and #6 - Goldstone was his friend	15:55	\|	Mehmet	31/01/10

28.	This is what Dershowitz said once!	15:59	\|	Palestinian	31/01/10

29.	Goldstone is a Traitor..	16:02	\|	H	31/01/10

30.	Dershowitz, an extreme rightist	16:03	\|	Avi Zuckermann	31/01/10

31.	The problem is the selectivity of UN investigations -	16:05	\|	Ronen	31/01/10

32.	The right always considers	16:05	\|	Mark Lincoln	31/01/10

33.	Dershowitz	16:10	\|	Christopher	31/01/10

34.	Shulamit Aloni - hates anyone who is not an extreme non-leftist	16:11	\|	Rich	31/01/10

35.	Goldstone is a traitor to reality	16:16	\|	a wandering Jew	31/01/10

36.	gee, and all the while i thought that	16:22	\|	7azon yesha3ya	31/01/10

37.	Goldstone`s Character Has To Be Questioned	16:23	\|	EasyToBeBadJudge	31/01/10

38.	Well done Dershowitz	16:25	\|	rich	31/01/10

39.	Dershowitz the great defender of free speech....	16:26	\|	Brian	31/01/10

40.	Cheap advertising by the Jewish groupie Dershowitz	16:42	\|	Esther	31/01/10

41.	Rightwingers love throwing around the word traitor	16:45	\|	newageblues	31/01/10

42.	Who defended OJ Simson?	16:46	\|	Sara	31/01/10

43.	Dershowitz and the Golem	16:48	\|	Em	31/01/10

44.	Name calling	16:48	\|	John Stein	31/01/10

45.	Goldstone	16:49	\|	flora	31/01/10

46.	#7 Robeert, The flaw in Goldstone report was that	16:54	\|	Canadian Historian	31/01/10

47.	Israel`s Mylai Massacre: Cast Lead	16:55	\|	Arik Silverman	31/01/10

48.	Robert in Toronto---Israel was invited to attend	16:56	\|	Labhras	31/01/10

49.	Making anti-semitism respectable	16:59	\|	W	31/01/10

50.	Jake, yes, but that`s our system	17:00	\|	newageblues	31/01/10

51.	Deshowitz is an anti-Semite	17:04	\|	John	31/01/10

52.	Alan Dershowitz	17:05	\|	Richard Sandler	31/01/10

53.	D and Gladstone were friends?	17:05	\|	Canadian	31/01/10

54.	Dershowitz vs. Goldstone	17:13	\|	The Teacher/Instruct	31/01/10

55.	The Real Problem	17:15	\|	SMF	31/01/10

56.	OJ	17:17	\|	Jethro	31/01/10

57.	Goldstone has a ghetto Jew mentality: whatever his bosses want...	17:21	\|	Tom Lobo Meyer	31/01/10

58.	Dershowitz Unbounded Vanity...an Aharon Barak	17:22	\|	Dolphin	31/01/10

59.	Aloni admits she has yet to read the report	17:23	\|	Gilad144	31/01/10

60.	Dershowitz is traitor to human race	17:25	\|	cambridge	31/01/10

61.	The difference between a good and bad lawyer	17:26	\|	a wandering Jew	31/01/10

62.	Dershowitz Finally Woke Up	17:33	\|	isaac	31/01/10

63.	dershowitz	17:38	\|	lechamps	31/01/10

64.	Why is Dersh his own worst enemy?	17:50	\|	Nahman Umani	31/01/10

65.	Dershowitz is a traitor to justice!	17:53	\|	Ed	31/01/10

66.	Better an enemy than a fake friend	17:53	\|	Peter	31/01/10

67.	Dreshowitz is a sad illustration of what fantaicisim does to	17:56	\|	Jozef	31/01/10

68.	Dershowitz is right!!!!!!	17:56	\|	Lee	31/01/10

69.	You are all ignoring the following paragraph:	17:57	\|	Yonatan	31/01/10

70.	Analytical Minds w/o Heart are Often Dangerous	18:04	\|	BDF	31/01/10

71.	International Law- Zahal as war criminals	18:08	\|	Daniel	31/01/10

72.	"It took an evil man..."	18:15	\|	ol` Case	31/01/10

73.	Take a breath Alan	18:16	\|	John	31/01/10

74.	Disbarment	18:32	\|	Mark of Lewiston	31/01/10

75.	Goldstone has to lie I guess	18:33	\|	Che	31/01/10

76.	Dershowitz the Fraud	18:35	\|	Randy	31/01/10

77.	Did he not also get that von buren guy off	18:39	\|	Labhras	31/01/10

78.	@#5,11	18:48	\|	Eric	31/01/10

79.	Dershowitz merely confirms what we already knew	19:02	\|	Chris Linthwaite	31/01/10

80.	"Uncle Tom" Goldstone	19:07	\|	JL	31/01/10

81.	Dersh never talks about what`s good for America	19:16	\|	Basil	31/01/10

82.	Finkelstein was denied tenure thanks to him	19:19	\|	Basil	31/01/10

83.	Since when Dershowitz had any moral authority!!?	19:21	\|	Hipocracy monitor	31/01/10

84.	Dershowitz - par for the course	19:22	\|	Brit	31/01/10

85.	This is what ONE GOOD JEW gets when telling the TRUTH	19:28	\|	Ben Croft	31/01/10

86.	Dershowitz`s Italian Envy	19:33	\|	ARTH	31/01/10

87.	Dershowittz is a sensation-seeking publicist...	19:41	\|	Esther	31/01/10

88.	Dershowitz & Goldstone: the moral case for friendship	20:12	\|	Bacana Bloke	31/01/10

89.	Dershowitz Traitor to Judaic Values	20:18	\|	Vladek	31/01/10

90.	If Goldstone report is nothing but a defamation of Israel,	20:23	\|	Gregory	31/01/10

91.	Dershowitz	20:24	\|	Burglar	31/01/10

92.	telling like it is	20:28	\|	joe smith	31/01/10

93.	Dershowitz-Goldstone	20:33	\|	Steve Gure	31/01/10

94.	Labhrat`s brain is clipped	20:35	\|	SDHD	31/01/10

95.	Dangerous Man	20:48	\|	Joshua	31/01/10

96.	Read the Dershowitz critique and decide for yourselves	20:50	\|	Ben	31/01/10

97.	finkelstein is right again	20:51	\|	wilb	31/01/10

98.	"The Goldstone report isn`t entirely accurate"	20:59	\|	steve	31/01/10

99.	Small Loss Mr. Goldstone	21:03	\|	Bill	31/01/10

100.	A traitor ? I don`t know . A liar for sure says Dershowitz	21:16	\|	Giora	31/01/10

101.	Dershowitz	21:42	\|	Klaus	31/01/10

102.	Disbar Him	21:44	\|	Mark of Lewiston	31/01/10

103.	Dershowitz would support slavery if Israel was the plantation own	21:44	\|	Louis	31/01/10

104.	Dershowitz, Political (Zionist) Commentator.	21:48	\|	Maureen Ann	31/01/10

105.	He should be kicked out of Harvard for this slander	22:12	\|	Danny	31/01/10

106.	Yes Jake, the man certainly does know the law	22:22	\|	Joe Frazier	31/01/10

107.	To Robert of Toronto	22:26	\|	Pablo Luis	31/01/10

108.	remarkable ignorance here today by the usual suspects	22:51	\|	vhardman	31/01/10

109.	Dershowitz Dialogues	22:51	\|	Joe Perlov	31/01/10

110.	Dershowitz	23:22	\|	Jaime Lievano	31/01/10

111.	Goldstone: Sue Dershowitz for public defamation	23:37	\|	David	31/01/10

112.	Dershowitz is absolutely correct and	23:42	\|	TOMY	31/01/10

113.	above	00:01	\|	moishe	01/02/10

114.	Goldstone`s incompetence	01:16	\|	Harry Popdoapolis	01/02/10

115.	American Legal System	01:32	\|	Marty	01/02/10

116.	Dershowitz hypocrite and extremist	02:09	\|	Sandi	01/02/10

117.	The Best Defense	02:33	\|	karlo	01/02/10

118.	Dershowitz knows the Report as well as Goldstone	04:01	\|	Raymond in DC	01/02/10

119.	This is a lawer`s job to defend his evel client	05:02	\|	Bruce	01/02/10

120.	Dershowitz	05:18	\|	Michael Zamczyk	01/02/10

121.	the day will come when dershovitz will be seen as a great enemy	08:04	\|	jack	01/02/10

122.	Aloni ? Who is she ?	09:17	\|	giora	01/02/10

123.	Illegal use of weapons	12:54	\|	An Historian	01/02/10

124.	What the hell have you - Esther and Mark of Lewiston got against	17:21	\|	S	01/02/10

125.	Goldstone and Dershowitz	17:29	\|	Derrick Chapman	01/02/10

126.	Dershowizt	17:48	\|	Ludwig Golberg	01/02/10

127.	imagine....	18:06	\|	Ludwig Goldberg	01/02/10

128.	moishe	19:23	\|	LS	01/02/10

129.	Moishe again	19:26	\|	LS	01/02/10

130.	Dangerous Stance	20:26	\|	Cowboy	01/02/10

131.	Dershowitz and Goldstone	21:10	\|	David	01/02/10

132.	The Goldstone report.	17:17	\|	johdep	02/02/10

133.	Dershowitz	20:01	\|	Calvin Arey	02/02/10

134.	Harvard Law School professor?	15:20	\|	Chinaski	04/02/10

135.	Dershowitz Advocates Torture	05:45	\|	Steve	08/02/10

136.	Shulamit Aloni	06:12	\|	Rich	08/02/10

137.	Dershowitz,Liar	15:58	\|	jacko	08/02/10

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