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Apr-11-2013 23:44TweetFollow @OregonNews Cardoza Law School Ignores Dershowitz To Honor Jimmy CarterDr. James M. Wall Salem-News.comLaw School’s decision to honor former President Jimmy Carter generated a lot of bluster and outrage from the reactionary wing of the Jewish community.
(CHICAGO) - Despite vicious opposition from the Alan Dershowitz conservative wing of the American Jewish community, Cardoza Law School honored former President Jimmy Carter this week for his career of work on peace and conflict resolution. The International Advocate for Peace award was given to Carter by the student-run Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. The journal cited “Carter’s brokering of the 1979 peace accord between Israel and Egypt and the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty with the then-Soviet Union.” The presentation ceremony was held at the Cardoza Law School, a part of New York City’s Yeshiva University. Since it began as a university more than a century ago, Yeshiva, according to its website, “has been dedicated to melding the ancient traditions of Jewish law and life with the heritage of Western civilization”. With that tradition, Yeshiva University was hardly an institution the Dershowitz radical wing of American Jewry, expected to honor Jimmy Carter. The loudest protest voice leading the demand that the school “withdraw” Carter’s award, came from Professor Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard University since 1967. Dershowitz seldom misses an opportunity to demand that Carter confront him in a “public debate” on any campus where Carter is invited to appear. The Wikipedia page on Dershowitz gives some of ”that debate that did not happen”, history:
Dershowitz repeated his demand for a debate when Carter spoke at Brandeis in January 2007. Brandeis refused to invite Dershowitz to debate Carter, but the school did invite him to respond to Carter on the “same stage” after Carter had left. USA Today reported that the award presentation “has drawn a harsh response from alumni, who called on graduates to withhold donations to the school.” Confronted with this usual tactic of alumni opposition to a university decision, the Cardozo Law School leaders stood their ground and continued to support the award.
Alex Kane reported on the threats and protests against Carter that began the moment the award was announced. The previously loud opposition, however, was quiet on Wednesday, the day Carter received his award.
An earlier Cardoza conflict resolution award was given to Dennis Ross, the former US government official who worked on Middle East issues within several presidential administrations, including the Carter administration. Another award was given to Desmond Tutu. Neither of these awards drew the attention and resistance of Carter’s award. As it turned out, the “bluster and outrage” of the Dershowitz wing exhausted its fury in its losing battle to force the school to withdraw Carter’s award. Kane described the calm that prevailed on award day:
The Cardoza Law School’s support of its students is a testimony to the fact that it is also against the Dershowitz style of bulling. http://wallwritings.me/2013/04/11/cordoza-law-school-ignores-dershowitz-to-honor-jimmy-carter/ Please visit James Wall's Website, Wall Writings _____________________________
Journalism was Jim Wall’s undergraduate college major at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He has earned two MA degrees, one from Emory, and one from the University of Chicago, both in religion. An ordained United Methodist clergy person; he and his wife, Mary Eleanor, are the parents of three sons, and the grandparents of four grandchildren. They live in Elmhurst, Illinois. Jim served for two years on active duty in the US Air Force, and three additional years in the USAF (inactive) reserve. While serving with the Alaskan Command, he reached the rank of first lieutenant. He has worked as a sports writer for both the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, was editor of the United Methodist magazine, Christian Advocate for ten years, and editor and publisher of the Christian Century magazine for 27 years, starting in 1972. Time magazine wrote about the new editor, who arrived at the Christian Century determined to turn the magazine into a hard-hitting news publication. The inspiration for Wall Writings comes from that mindset and from many other sources that have influenced Jim’s writings over the years, including politics, cinema, media, American culture, and the political struggles in the Middle East. Jim has made more than 20 trips to that region as a journalist, during which he covered such events as Anwar Sadat’s 1977 trip to Jerusalem, and the 2006 Palestinian legislative election. He has interviewed, and written about, journalists, religious leaders, political leaders and private citizens in the region. You can write to Jim Wall at jameswall8@gmail.com. Visit Jim's Website: Wall Writings _________________________________________
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Project Humanbeingsfirst.org April 12, 2013 5:21 pm (Pacific time)
There is a construct in modern statecraft called WWF Wrestling match. Most Americans evidently do not know much about it, and despite watching these matches with great glee --- they are unable to connect what they see in entertainment with what they see in the political entertainment. Most Americans have been trained to think that these are two different matches. This includes the holy and pious dissent space. Most people who comment on Jimmy Carter's book cited in the above article by Dr. James M. Wall, haven't actually bothered to read that book. Becuase if they had, and also had any domain expertise, they would have written the following letter to Jimmy Carter instead of Zahir Ebrahim.
[Return to Top]I examined President Carter's great dissent with the Jewish Lobby, and his magnanimous support of the Palestinian people after the publication of his book, in an open letter I wrote to the distinguished former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. I faxed it to his office in Atlanta. I reproduce that Open Letter below.
The informed readers of Salem News will surely observe that the so called "vicious opposition" from Zionists and the American Jewish Lobby to anything "Jimmy Carter" is mostly entertainment for the masses -- empty noise -- becuase Jimmy Carter himself is only beating an empty drum.
This is called controlled dissent --- and it keeps the type-2 happily chasing their new dissent gods, having left the mainstream after having lost all faith in their mainstream gods as type-1. (This typification is due to Adolf Hitler in his Mein Kampf. It is explained in a detailed case study titled Manufacturing Dissent, available on my website http://humanbeingsfirst.org)
Judge for yourself the extent of the conscionable US President's fabled dissent:
Open Letter to Former American President Jimmy Carter
To: His Excellency, Jimmy Carter, former American president, and Nobel laureate
From: Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Subject: Introducing Palestine, Justice Not Apartheid
Date March 27, 2007
Dear distinguished scholar, humanitarian, Nobel peace-laureate, former President:
As a major public figure who is immensely concerned about the fate of the peoples of this planet, you have admirably endeavored in many notable social projects, including the most famous, Habitat for Humanity. For the past few years, I have taken my children to participate in its annual fund raising 5K and 10K races sponsored by the local university's Chapter of Habitat, and I hope that one of these days I will also be able to participate in helping build at least one of these Habitat homes. I wish more persons of privilege would show leadership in these sorts of inspiring activities, and I greatly applaud your conscionable spirit of volunteerism as a very positive role model for all humanity. And especially for me.
However, in this open letter, I must draw your kind attention to a rather disturbing question that I humbly raise about your most recent book "Palestine, Peace not Apartheid" which is admittedly your very courageous voice of conscience in your continued endeavor to bring peace and equanimity to the beleaguered peoples of this lonely planet. You too indeed recognize that we are equal human beings first - sharing this lonely planet - before we are anything else.
In reference to your recent speech at George Washington University, as reported by the Associated Press and carried by Israeli newspaper Haaretz at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/834962.html, where it was noted:
'He said he was not accusing Israel of racism nor referring to its treatment of Arabs within the country. "I defined apartheid very carefully as the forced segregation by one people of another on their own land," he said. ...'
I am compelled by my own far humbler and rather limited conscience to straightforwardly ask you, "why?" Why are you not accusing Israel of racism, nor referring to her treatment of Arabs within the country in your profound book? Why have you so artfully redefined racism and apartheid:
"I defined apartheid very carefully as the forced segregation by one people of another on their own land",
and deliberately restrained yourself from not seeing the direct and immediate parallels with South Africa? Did you come by this restricted redefinition for the semantics of a well known phenomenon, and the thrust of your insightful analysis of the situation in Palestine through whim, fear, or through some "ubermensch" principle of morality?
I have expanded on this question in my short commentary "Introducing Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid" at humanbeingsfirst.org. I have also humbly expanded on the issue of Israel-Palestine at much greater depth in my essay "The endless trail of red herrings" available on the same website wherein I quite straightforwardly deconstruct the constricted discourse space in the entire Western Hemisphere that has been so deliberately crafted in favor of Der Judenstat to continually enable new faits accomplis to be artfully constructed on the ground such that they become "impractical" and "inexpedient" to subsequently reverse! Have you had the opportunity to visit Jerusalem lately? I am informed by its Palestinian residents that it looks nothing like it used to before 1967, with all vestiges of Arab inhabitation being deftly replaced by a European look. Indeed, quite "impractical" to reverse!
While the most notable persons in the world clamor the two-state solution space and artfully continue to dodge their responsibility of calling a spade a spade, settlement of the Land of Canaan by the European aliens is a fait accompli as noted by Gideon Levy in his candid Haaretz article "Netanyahu and Meshal forever" at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/835457.html
In this stark reality of faits accomplis that is visible to all, your interestingly titled book is rather too little too late! The only rational recourse today is to outright dismantle Zionism as an organized terror philosophy, and its brainchild, Der Judenstat, as an abhorrent Apartheid construction - a blot on humanity that created it, and tolerates it, while its distinguished leaders continually seed newer red herrings in the guise of sympathy thus permitting the root cause celebra to exist in peace unhindered by "not accusing Israel of racism nor referring to its treatment of Arabs within the country." As a distinguished world leader and elder-statesman of the most powerful nation in the universe, your every word is significant. Why has this word been chosen thusly in contrast to the manifest reality on the ground?
Additionally, I have briefly analyzed your interesting interview of January 25, 2007 with NPR's Steve Inskeep, and your former Historian-friend Prof. Kenneth Stein's criticism of your book in my very detailed essay "Dialog Among Civilizations: Whytalksfail? Part-1" also available from the same website, where I invite you and NPR to redo those series of interviews using the commonsensical dialog algorithm developed in the afore titled document where no unexamined and sacred axioms are allowed to remain unexamined and untouchable. This dialog algorithm is rationally architected to amicably resolve today's most dangerous of disputes among mankind, unless of course the intent is indeed to not resolve them equitably, but rather to perpetuate American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives by hook or by crook.
Such a dialog algorithm is especially necessary in order to avert the looming predatory American war upon a defenseless Iran (please see my Open Letter to Amnesty International, USA), for which your former National Security Advisor has already candidly laid out the following plausible scenario (an imaginative variation on Operation Canned Goods) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article145515.html):
"a plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a "defensive" US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan"
I hope you can find a little time in your very busy schedule to examine these humble analyses emanating from the rather plebeian mind of Project Humanbeingsfirst. I also hope that you would find them at least a tiny bit worthy to respond coherently, and not feel it necessary to engage in the amazing techniques of deflection perfected by your illustrious successor.
I straightforwardly challenge your anemic condemnation of Israel, and I hope that you too will respond rather straightforwardly. Obviously as you enjoy the privilege of your position, you likely see the world from the pragmatic lens of expediency and primacy imperatives of a lone superpower state, as you did when you engagingly permitted your National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski to hand "the USSR its Vietnam War" on another's soil with another peoples' blood (as confessed by Brzezinski in 1998: http://members.aol.com/bblum6/brz.htm).
If it is indeed the primacy wisdom of ideological "expediency" that has informed the diktats of your noble conscience in writing this book on Palestine - which you could have also forthrightly named "Palestine, Justice Not Apartheid" and developed its theme accordingly had you also courageously recognized that lasting peace is only a harvest of justice, else it's acquiesced slavery - perhaps you might share your ideological wisdom with the mesmerized world which is so enthralled with the mere thought of any American President even dreaming of criticizing the "ubermensch" state in the modernity du jour. When you had the moral strength to come this far, why not all the way? What, or who, has co-opted you?
With Warm and Courteous Regards,
Zahir Ebrahim
the plebeian, founder Project HumanbeingsfirstTM
and American Tax Payer
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/open-letter-to-jimmy-carter.html
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