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"If I Were 25, I'd Be in Gaza with a Gun in the IDF"

(Globes) Prof. Alan Dershowitz interviewed by Ariel Whitman - Prof. Alan Dershowitz said in an interview: "I was a lawyer for many of the protesters during the 1960s and the 1970s, and many of them were very radical, but nothing comes close to this [recent mass protests against Israel]. This is essentially equivalent to Nazi youth. The protesters are mostly ignorant. They know nothing about Israel. They know nothing about Hamas." "All they know is that they're joining a demonstration based on intersectionality between oppressors and oppressed, and Jews are the oppressors and Palestinians are the oppressed. These are not pro-Palestine demonstrations. These are anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-Jewish demonstrations. And they're getting worse and they're spreading beyond the campus." "It's time for Israel to win the war. It's time for Israel to ignore world public opinion, to thumb its nose, and ignore the Red Cross and Physicians Without Borders and the UN. Israel has to make its own decisions. Tragically, Israel cannot completely ignore the U.S., but it cannot be dictated to by the U.S. We in the U.S. have to take responsibility for assuring American support." "There cannot be a two-state solution that's based on Oct. 7....Oct. 7 requires a complete dismantling and destruction of Hamas. Once that's done, we can go back and talk about various possible solutions, but nothing will ever be the same. For example...it cannot be that Hamas can come right up to the border....There has to be security done only by Israel, because that's the only country you can trust to do security. The same thing is true in the West Bank, but the key point is Hamas cannot be rewarded right now." "I'm 85 years old. If I were 25 years old, I wouldn't be talking to you today. I'd be in Gaza with a gun joining the IDF."
2024-03-14 00:00:00
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