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Treatment of Israel Strikes an Alien Note


(National Post - Canada) Alan M. Dershowitz - Is Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza - an occupation it has offered to end in exchange for peace - worse than the Chinese occupation of Tibet? Are the tactics used to combat terrorism by Israel worse than those used by the Russians against Chechen terrorists? Are Arab and Muslim states more democratic than Israel? Does the absence of the death penalty in Israel alone, among Middle East nations, make it more barbaric than the countries which behead, hang, and shoot political dissidents? Is Israel's commitment to equality for women worse than the gender apartheid practiced in Saudi Arabia? Yet there are no comparable petition campaigns against other countries that enslave minorities, imprison dissidents, murder political opponents, and torture suspected terrorists.
2002-11-05 00:00:00
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