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R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 08:51 PM Jun 2014

Alan Dershowitz: BDS a strategic threat to Israel in the long term

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.598080#

One of Israel’s staunchest defenders abroad on Tuesday warned that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement could pose a strategic threat to the country in the future.

Speaking at the annual Herzliya Conference, Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said the danger of the boycott was that it was turning a new generation of future American leaders against Israel. “I think that anything that diminishes American popular support for Israel poses a security threat,” he said.

Based on his observations of trends on campuses around the United States, Dershowitz said that the boycott movement was gaining momentum chiefly among undergraduate students and graduate students in the social sciences, but was having no impact, as far as he could see, on students in the hard sciences and in professional programs, such as law, medicine and business.
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“I think what it does is it disincentivizes Palestinians to aggressively seek peace now,” he said. “I think it sends a powerful message to the Palestinian leadership – and this has been conveyed to me personally by two Palestinian leaders at the very very top – that we can get a better deal if the BDS movement catches on.”


...disincentivizes Palestinians to aggressively seek peace now...

The apartheid picnic has a new conductor heading straight for crazy town and about to jump the tracks.
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Alan Dershowitz: BDS a strategic threat to Israel in the long term (Original Post) R. Daneel Olivaw Jun 2014 OP
The Dersh fears BDS, IMHO, because he sees that it is effective enough R. Daneel Olivaw Jun 2014 #1
Except Shaktimaan Jun 2014 #2
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
1. The Dersh fears BDS, IMHO, because he sees that it is effective enough
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 08:54 PM
Jun 2014

to actually help the Palestinians toward a state of their own; free of illegal colonistas and the bullshit policies that have kept them down and disenfranchised.

Shaktimaan

(5,397 posts)
2. Except
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 09:27 PM
Jun 2014

What makes you think he opposes such a result? Dershowitz favors a two state solution which would necessitate exactly those policies being enacted. The concept of two states at peace isn't opposed by any but the most radical on either side; the debate is over the terms. BDS embraces an utterly unrealistic set of goals. Namely the right of return of palestinian refugees to Israel. Which is a nonstarter wrt any achievable peace deal.

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