The Moderately Assimilated and Alan Dershowitz

Jewish moderates are actually more dangerous than the fully assimilated ones. Common sense itself will naturally reveal that something is dreadfully wrong with the concepts from the far Left. When liberal Jews seek to destroy the Jewish nation and Jewish heritage in any form or fashion it simply goes against the natural laws of self-preservation.

However it takes something more than just common sense to determine to wrongs of a moderate. It takes spirituality, conservative spirituality. The moderates base their beliefs totally on self-reasoning but are completely depleted of spirituality. Any spiritual issues are first ran through their concepts of reason rather than any spiritual concepts, inspirations, or revelations in their lives.

The mind is a battle ground between reason (knowledge) and faith (spirituality). The first biblical battle we see between reason and faith is depicted as "good verses evil" in the Garden of Eden. Adam was a being formed in the image of God whose breath came from God’s own breath. Therefore, the Bible tells us that Adam was in essence a “naturally” spiritually being. In order to keep the source of his natural spirituality by which he was created flowing smoothly, a spiritual based commandment was given to him not to partake of the Tree of Knowledge.

This commandment was given simply because the source of Adam's spiritual life by which he lived before his fall, and a life lived from the source from the Tree of Knowledge could not be mixed. Eve, who wasn’t around in woman form when this spiritual commandment was first given to Adam was well aware of it by the time the serpent came to tempt her. She even repeated this commandment to the serpent. The serpent did not use physical force to get Eve to partake of the forbidden Tree of Knowledge because physical force would not have worked in causing Eve to willfully disobey the commandment, which was the main motive of the serpent. Instead, he offered a reasoning to replace her spirituality and devotion to the spiritual commandment.

The serpent didn’t deny that there was a God who created all things or that God really gave them the commandment of not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge. He just got Eve to inject reason into the commandment itself that offered an alternative perspective to what God really wanted! He was basically setting himself up as a spokesman for God through the method of self-reason. In my view, the serpent was the first Left-winger while Eve became the first moderate that caused the spiritually conservative-Adam to fall.

Most Jewish moderates will almost always have a form of tainted spirituality. I say that because when you hear them speak they will always stop short of taking all what God has spoken through Moses and the rest of the Hebrew prophets. Stopping short of all that God requires is really the whole concept of being a moderate. Otherwise they would be considered a religious conservative.

Whenever they do stop short of the full extent of biblical principles they will always replace the biblical portion that they willfully will fail to follow all the way through, with a form of reasoning reasoning that sounds good and decent. For instance, the idea of taking something, and then giving something in return, only seems fair and just. Wouldn’t any other type of reasoning show a sense of greed?

When a moderate injects this type of reasoning into the words of God it not only dilutes the whole message and principle of God, but it changes the whole concept of God into something that is man-based instead of something that is God-based. Following the serpent’s plan of action of how he deceived Eve, the moderates will suggest a reasonably sounding “better” idea for man than what God has spoken. In the end, the moderate world (which is a realm that is by nature outside the realm of righteousness) will seek the destruction of true righteousness itself, simply because the two worlds are unable to be mixed together.

Alan Dershowitz is a classic Jewish moderate. Though he sees himself as a liberal, his hardcore stance on some conservative issues and his exposing of far-Left liberals makes him a moderate, even leaning towards conservatism. The Israel-hating, anti-Semites from both Jewish and Gentiles groups hates him tremendously, and targets him on bogus allegations whenever they get a chance. I appreciate and believe half the things that Alan Dershowitz says concerning Israel and the Palestinians, but the other half of the things Dershowitz says makes me want to pull my hair out of my head in anger. His wit and ability to put in perspective the anti-Israel injustices and the Palestinian terrorism is like no other that I have seen.

His book “The Case for Israel” (now a video documentary) was a national best seller and I have to say, it is well worth reading. I even placed it in the "great book" section of this blog site. I especially like the way Dershowitz has recently taken on the Hamas-loving former president Jimmy Carter and his Hamas-loving lies. However, in his very next book entitled “The Case for Peace” Dershowitz starts out using a biblical passage in the introduction (something he didn’t do in his prior book “The Case for Israel”) which demonstrates Dershowitz willingness as a moderate to “reason out” God’s divine plan for Israel.

In his book “The Case for Peace” he gives his reasons for a Palestinian state, a divided Jerusalem, a Jew-free West Bank, a Jew-free Gaza, and the "right-of-return" of some Palestinians into the Jewish state of Israel instead of a new state of Palestinian-filled / Jew-free "Palestine".

I don’t mean to pick on Alan Dershowitz more than other well known Jewish moderates, but because he speaks for most moderates from both Jews and Gentiles (being than he writes best sellers and all) I want to answer some of his claims through a religious-conservative-extremist prospective. I want to show that because a moderate perspective along with the far Left perspectives, are automatically separated from the godly justice, they will always lead to an unjust and insane result.

Dershowitz reasoning is of course something that sounds somewhat fair when viewed without any spiritual insight as the title of his book, “The Case for Peace” would indicate. Who could argue over a legitimate-sounding case for peace? Because Dershowitz has lowered God to an object that is subjected to man’s reasoning, his concept of righteous thinking would sound something like this:
“Surely” God wants peace in land of Israel.
“Surely” God hates war where even innocent children are dying.
“Surely” the Israelis should share the land where Arabs have lived for such a long period of time.
“Surely” Jerusalem can be the worship center for both Jews and Arabs alike since we are all God’s children of Abraham.
“Surely” you won’t die if you eat of the Tree of Good and Evil.

Dershowitz, like most Jewish moderates, views the Bible as an important piece of heritage of the Jewish people but that is as far as he will go with it because he has no spiritual backbone. This is the main reason why he can suggest such give-away proposals concerning half of Jerusalem and most or all of the holy Temple Mount. These things simply have no spiritual significant to him! Therefore, he is willing to force religious Jews to depart from what is sacred to them as long as he gets what is important him in his moderate-reasoning world. In this Dershowitz becomes a selfish Jew who favors the human workings of a democracy over any and all human devotion to their creator.

The reason and foundation of why the Palestinians are so insanely evil in their methods and political movements is because they are direct enemies to God’s chosen people. It’s a spiritual thing! If the moderates would only stop and think that the reason why the Palestinians are terrorist minded from small children on up is because they don’t belong to the land in the first place, just as virus outside its natural habitat becomes vicious against its host. The more the Palestinians resist Israel, the more engulfed into evil and insanity they become. Therefore, a moderate will try to mix darkness with light by giving into the persistence of Palestinian evil instead up standing up and seeking the total annihilation of this insane evil came hail or high water! A Palestinian martyr should never go his Allah with Jewish lives under his belt and a UN membership plaque in his hand!

A good biblical example of a Jewish moderate today is the spies that Moses sent out to spy on the promised land of Canaan who returned with a reasoning of why the land couldn’t be inherited. These spineless spies were perfectly content on not pursuing any more land. They had rather stayed right there in the wilderness or returned to their house of bondage in Egypt, letting go to any held promise of their God. It is only those who are totally dedicated through thick and thin that God will give honor simply because they honor God. However, moderates do not have it within them to stand so tall. They will knowing accept an evil scheme that they can live with as long as certain conditions of their self-desire are met. The end result is that evil triumphs with the blessings of a moderate.

Case and Point: Dershowitz can see the insanity coming out of the Palestinians on a daily basis and has even written extensively about it. Yet he is willing to a give this religiously insane people a recognized state because of world pressure, and not because of what is obviously right and wrong with giving them a state. In order to fight off any conviction of his spiritual spinelessness, he will turn against the ones who do hold up for what is right come what may, as he does here in this following quote from the book "Case for Peace":

“Some of the extremist use language that parallels the hate speech used by anti-Israel zealots. Take Rabbi David Samson, who said , “Their [the Arabs] children are born with Molotov cocktails in their hands. These are a people as unfeeling as jackals."

Dershowitz is saying that any suggestion by a religious person that Palestinian children are born with Molotov cocktails (fire bombs) in their hands is just as guilty of unfounded hatred as the antisemitic Jew-haters are. Now notice how good that might sound to other non-religious persons. It sounds like Dershowitz has really gotten his act together as he stands up for what is right and on the side of righteousness. He seems quick to point out any unjust rhetoric on either side of the conflict, be it Israeli or Palestinian. That’s what God would want, right? This kind of logic and seemingly unselfish compromise made the moderate Israelis vote for the Kadima party in the 2006 elections.

The only problem with Dershowitz’s example of an equality of “hate speech” between a rabbi and anti-Semites is that Rabbi Samson’s quote is not some hate speech from an extremist as Dershowitz tries to paint him, but is in fact a very truthful and factual statement coming from someone who is not blinded by the world’s “can’t-we-all-just-get-along” moderate-centric position.

While no human child can possibly be born with anything in their hands, the Palestinian children are the closet among all the children of the world at living up to such a figure of speech. There is some truth to the one-liner jokes: “ What does the sign say above the nursery in a Palestinian maternity ward? The answer, "Live Ammunition". Also, “a little Palestinian girl says to her mommy, "After Abdul blows up, can I have his room?" Ha-ha, very funny right? But one has to wonder why there are such jokes to begin with? The non-humorous sad part is, that it isn’t long after the Palestinian children are born that some sort of weapons for the purpose of a Jew-killing jihad are placed in their tiny hands. A quick Internet trip to "Palestinian Media Watch" will demonstrate this > http://www.palwatch.org/.

As far as Rabbi Samson stating that the Palestinians are unfeeling as jackals, I have to disagree with such a statement for the simple fact that jackals have more “natural” feelings towards the Jews than most Palestinians, be it Fatah or Hamas! I don’t know of any jackals who sends their offspring on suicide-murderous missions and then passes out candies to celebrate their murdering-suicide successes! In fact, the Palestinians could actually learn a decent thing or two from jackals! I maybe considered “one of those extremist” by Dershowitz for making such a statement, but given the choice of either spending the night with a den of jackals or walking the streets of Ramallah or Jenin as a Israel-state supporting Jew, Dershowitz’s choice I’m sure, would be the company of jackals.

In his denial of the Jewish law (Halachah) namely "din rodef" meaning, "law of pursuer" that allowed a Jew to kill a fellow Jew if Jewish lives and property are at sake. This law was originally set forth by Moses Maimonides in the twelfth century and upheld in March 2002 by Rabbi Avigdor Neventzal of Jerusalem, Dershowitw had this to say:
“What these narrow-minded religious warmongers don’t seem to understand is that if their dangerous misinterpretation of Jewish law were correct - which it is not - that would be the strongest argument for rejecting Jewish law itself. A religious law that forbids territorial compromise in the interests of peace, or that justifies the murder of an elected leader who is seeking peace, is not a law worth following or even studying. Their baseless interpretation is, in the end, a self-defeating argument against the relevance and eternal validity of Jewish law. …Jewish law does not praise those who save an acre of land at the coat of human lives.

What Dershowitz willfully fails to understand is that any ruling of Jewish law has to be based on the principles of the Torah itself just like any case-law in the United States has to be based on the principles of the US Constitution. The Torah, as well as the prophets are not subject to some democratic vote or a multi-government U.N. resolution! He does not take into consideration that the Torah by which all aspects of Judaism, Jewish identity, the nation of Israel, and Zionism are all founded upon, in no way permits the giving away of any part of the land of Israel in the interest of peace or for any other reason whatsoever!

Dershowitz seems to suggest that if any Jewish law seems to suggest such “extreme” principles, the law would therefore be a law not worth studying much less applying to Jewish life. Maybe as a law professor at Harvard, Dershowitz should take the time to consider all of the Law of Moses and the words of the prophets and not just pick and chose verses he can make fit into his Torah denying moderate world before passing any judgment on Jewish Law according to his own personnel view. According to Dershowitz’s description of a “narrow minded religious warmonger” Moses and Joshua would definitely fit his bill!

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.- Exodus 23: 30-32

When YHVH thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
And when YHVH thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: - Deuteronomy 7:1,2

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. - Deuteronomy 33:27

Throughout the entire Hebrew Bible there is not one single time where God instructed Israel to make a peace treaty with her enemies or to settle for a "cubit less" of the entire land God originally promised to Israel. The prophets that followed Moses confirmed time and time again throughout the Jewish Scriptures that Israel would return to the land and win in victorious battles against her enemies at the End of Days.

Nowhere in Biblical prophecy is there a prophesied event of Israel making any kind of a peace treaty with her vicious enemies and share the promised land for the sake of a false peace while appeasing a false non-Israelite god such as one like the Arabian moon deity named Allah. That kind of revelation and logic is anti-Torah, anti-prophecy, and given the Palestinian nature and history, anti-common sense.

If someone insinuates that these scriptures above are still God’s desire and commandments for Israel today; to not give up one inch of the land that was promised to them by the God of Israel in ancient times, and that Israel is obligated to never make peace with the murderous Palestinians or any other gentile people, then they are labeled an extreme extremist. I would love for these Jewish moderates to answer the question and then back up their answer with Jewish scripture, as to whether or not God Himself is an extremist based on what the prophets of Israel declaration of God’s own words, and if the biblical views themselves are considered too extreme?

They will always respond that a man cannot know what God thinks as if to say, “The Bible was written for nothing in pertaining to modern times, so therefore my educated democratic modern moderate views are just as good and even more realistic than that of the ancient writings and views of the Bible." Moderates have the ability to understand the insanity of the Left and Far Left, but are left in the dark when it comes to spiritual insight involving political matters. Only someone with a spiritual sense can truly imagine how harsh the spiritual Moses would be against a Palestinian state and everything that the moderates of the world are expecting Israel to abide by if he were alive and on the earth today!

Dershowitz becomes “Harvard spiritual-stupid” in his book "Case for Peace" by using his education to reason that the answers to the Middle East conflict is "compromise". Because he doesn’t use spiritual discernment, he is capable of believing that the Palestinians are ready and willing to make peace and recognize Israel, but becomes blinded from seeing that the Palestinians can not and will not accept something so unIslamic and so against the words of Mohammad as a Jewish state.

"Thou wilt certainly find the most violent of people in enmity against the believers (Muslims) to be the Jews and idolaters." - Koran, sura 5:82

It is just plain willfully ignorant to believe that the Palestinians will forsake their Islam in order to make peace with the most abhorred people in Islam. Article 13 of Hamas' covenant states this clearly: "For renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion."
If Dershowitz had any spiritual discernment at all, he would realize that anytime there is a conflict between good and evil, or right and wrong, only bad things come about from any type of compromise. If you mix muddy and clear water the result will always be the same - more muddy water.

Any type of reward to terrorism in the name of "compromise-for-peace" can only sow the seeds for more terrorism in greater quality and quantity expressions. Unless the Palestinian cancer is totally taken out of the body of Israel and not just reduced, it will continue to multiply and spread until the death of Israel results. Case and point: there have been far more rockets attacks launched against Israel coming out of Gaza within the first year after the Israelis pulled out of Gaza than between 1949-1967. No matter how many terrorist have been foolishly released from Israeli prisons in the name of peace, the rockets still continue to fly into Israel more and more.
The compromising of Gaza on the basis of moderately hoping for peace has resulted in vacant Jewish community areas now being use for rocket-launch pads to strike at other Jewish cities inside the so-called U.N. green-line!

However, if the pro-Torah / pro-prophecy, biblical view of ridding Gaza of all Muslim Arabs (preferably by transfer) and replaced with Jews were to occur, I will personally guarantee that there would be no more terrorist rocket firings from Gaza, and absolutely no terrorism acts of any kind would occur within or around the whole of Gaza. But this guarantee of being terrorist-terrorism free is just too extreme for the moderates to handle, while they will support the forcing of Israeli Jews to put up with rockets hitting their houses and elementary schools.

In the eyes of the moderates, transferring a terrorism-natured people who religiously follow a "strike terror in their hearts" Allah-god ideology (see sura 8:12) so they can't express their terrorism tendencies, is consider by the moderates to be inhuman and extreme! However, allowing for the murder of innocent bystanders, including children, via Qussam rocket fire and other means is not considered too extreme in any sense of the word!

Dershowitz’s claim: "Mainstream Israelis and mainstream Palestinians, along with their respective governments, are now largely on the same side: they all want peace, compromise, and a two-state solution….With regard to this conflict most Israelis and many Palestinians are on the same side-the side of peace."

My answer: The Palestinian minority (the non-Hamas group) and the mainstream Israelis (the Kadima crowd) are willing to compromise for a two-state solution for different reasons. Deep within the hearts of the mainstream Israelis no desire can be found for the total annihilation of the Palestinian people. They just want the conflict to end once and for all. However, deep within the hearts of the mainstream Palestinians lays a deep desire for the total annihilation of the Israeli people. To them, the State of Israel is Al Nakba (the catastrophe) that oppresses the people and must be gotten rid of at all cost.

They are bound to this mindset for they are taught and brain washed to hate and kill Jews from their youth for crying out loud! When a Palestinian youth soccer team is named after a Jew-killing martyr, that should tell the moderates just how insane these people are and just what they deserve, but it doesn't. Not only that, I would love for Dershowitz or any of the rest of the moderates to explain to me the Middle East peace process along with the Hudaybiyya Treaty, and how the two can in no way be compared as Arafat suggested that they indeed were, on May 10, 1994 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The mainstream Israelis are actually willing to sacrifice land (for reasons even I can’t understand) that is heavily connected with their ancient religious heritage in hopes of achieving peace with a people that has savagely murdered thousands of their fellow men, women, children, and infants in cold blood. The so-called moderate Palestinians of the Fatah party (who have murdered more Israeli Jews than Hamas has, I might add) are willing to at least give lip-service (as Arafat, their beloved and revered party leader did) to recognize Israel in order to negotiate under the win-win roadmap plan for Palestinians. They do this in order to advance towards their overall goal which is definitely not living along side Israel in peace! That will only occur in President Bush's mind or any other future US President that embraces the UN globalist movement!

This moderate Palestinian goal is the same as Hamas’ goal and has not changed since the start of the Six Day War, which has been and always will be, the complete destruction of the State of Israel, and for all of Palestine to live under Islamic rule. Fatah and Hamas only differ on whether to be discrete under a roadmap peace plan or to be open for all the world to see their Israeli-Jewish hatred. The ruling government of Hamas had chosen the latter. Even after Hamas, in keeping in line with their prophet, broke their own Hudaybiyya type treaty with Fatah in 2007 and took over all of Gaza, (showing their true nature for covenant breaking) there were still ignorant moderates everywhere such as Jimmy Carter and Tony Blair calling for peace talks between Israel and Hamas.

Abbu Abbas is considered and viewed by the world powers as the poster boy of Palestinian moderates. The world media refers to this devil as a moderate time and time again on their news wires. President Bush called him “A man of peace” upon his active role in merging Hamas in with Fatah to form a coalition. I’ll be the first to tell you that he really is the very best the Palestinian people has to offer the world as their moderate leader. Yet this moderate poster boy (whom President Bush has also called a" reformer" has explicitly:
1. Denied the Holocaust.
2. Suggested that there was a connection between the Nazis and the Zionists during the Second World War.
3. Has blamed the “Zionist” (as do the neo-Nazi white supremacists) for prompting the Nazis into committing their Holocaust deeds.
4. Stated that a crime was committed against the Palestinians in 1948 during Israel’s celebration of Independence.
5. Praised suicide murders for bringing about the Jewish withdraw from Gaza and calling them “martyrs” that have entered the Garden of Eden.
6. Declared the Palestinians who are serving tens of life sentences in Israeli prisons for their involvement in murdering Israeli civilians as “our heroes”.
7. Demanded that Palestinians descendants have a right of flood Jewish Israel (not a new state of Palestine) which he knows very well that it would undermine and destroy Israel as a Jewish nation.
8. Did absolutely nothing as a Palestinian elected president to stop or even slow down the Qussam rockets and gun fire from spewing out of Gaza towards near-by Israeli towns and villages right after Israel departed from Gaza.
9. Helped finance the 1972 Munich Massacre either directly and indirectly.
10. Has not even attempted to change the Palestinian covenant that declares the liberation (through an terrorist-style armed struggle) of all of what is known to Palestinians as “all of Palestine” -meaning all of Israel!
11. Asked for the release of hundreds of Palestinians terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons, including the ones with blood on their hands!
12. Never ridiculed, admonished, or refuted Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his Jew hatred, his Holocaust denial, or his outspoken desire to wipe Israel off the map.

Yet with all of this against Abbas, it was the moderate Jews in Israel who were more than willing to place their lives, trust, hopes, and dreams of peace, in the hands of such a man as Abu Abbas, instead of relying on the God of the Bible. They are willing to throw vast amounts of money and land that God has reserved for Israel, as an “offering” to this evil leader and his evil people. Since biblical times until the present, the Jews (especially the Israelis) for the most part have not lost their ability to be a stiff-necked people (a people that does not look back at their origins) when it comes to following the divine covenant set forth by God of Israel.

Continuing with Dershowitz’s above quote:
"The other side consist of Palestinians extremist who will never accept a Jewish state of Israel no matter how tiny, Israeli extremist who will never accept a Palestinian state no matter how tiny."

My answer in two parts:
1. Again, Dershowitz’s moderate blindness causes him to fail at seeing that there is probably less than a hundred Palestinians out of millions (not just so-called Palestinian extremist) that would fully endorse from their heart, Israel as a Jewish state. If given a straight down-the-line choice of there being in existence a Jewish state of Israel or not, 99.99% of all Palestinians would vehemently support the doing away with Israel all together. I know that, and Dershowitz knows that, and anybody with one eye and half-sense knows that to be truth of the matter! This is why Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can so confidently suggested that there should be a Palestinian vote on whether or not there should be a state of Israel in the region as he defended his anti-Israel / holocaust-denying proclamations in the now famous Mike Wallace (his last) interview in August 2006.

It is only political maneuvering towards the total destruction of Israel that causes any Palestinian from any party, (including the Palestinian terrorist-enter-paradise proclaiming Abbu Abbas) to yell “peace talks”. To believe something different is simply and willfully being totally out of touch with reality. There is not one single ounce of Jewish hatred that has changed from Palestinian concepts and motivation since the time before the Six Day War, nor will there ever be as long as the influence of Islam prays on the minds of the Palestinians. The only thing that has changed is Palestinian political maneuvering in seeking the desired goal that they have had even before Israel became a state!

Because Dershowitz cannot see the spiritual aspects of the Middle East conflict as a whole, he therefore foolishly reasons that if the political situation returned to the conditions prior similar to the Six Day War that there would not be another Six Day War. That maybe what they teach in a political science class at Harvard, but Harvard is incapable of acknowledging the evil motivations of the human heart on a spiritual level. Again, moderates like Dershowitz function in the realm of reason while being spiritually depleted of any concepts of spirituality .

2. Will “God Himself” accept a Palestinian state no matter how small of one given what is based on the Jewish scriptures? If not, does that also make God Himself an extremist? If so, is the so-called Israeli extremist wrong for being extremist? And if God is an extremist, doesn’t that make the moderates who are not extremist, anti-God, or God-like? Oh how I can just hear the moderate excusing themselves by responding to these questions by stating: “No one can know what God thinks” as if to say it is impossible for God to reveal man His thoughts and will.

If by chance, any moderates would suggest that God of Israel would desire a Palestinian state within the borders outlined in the Bible, of which is clearly preserved for Isaac's offspring, I beg for any such clear and concise scriptural proof that allows any Jew, anywhere or at anytime, to give any of their land-of-inheritance in the name of peace of all things to their most vicious enemy! And don’t give me some willfully-ignorant moderate religious peace philosophy where it has to be read between the lines according to a liberal off-the-wall interpretation. Give it to me straight from the Torah and the prophets of Israel mouths! Go ahead and try Mr. Moderate, I double dog dare you to find such a land-for-peace supporting scripture! Write me a comment with your scripture on this blog.

Dershowitz claim: "The only guarantee of peace in the region is a qualitatively superior Israeli military deterrent.Whenever an Arab nation, or a combination of Arab nations, had believed itself capable of destroying Israel militarily, there had been war. Whenever Israel’s military superiority has been clear, there has been no war."

My answer given in two parts:
1. That is a very good and true analysis by which I fully and totally agree. However, I find a little problem with Dershowitz making such a statement. Dershowitz stated earlier in his book "Case for Peace" that, “Mainstream Israelis and mainstream Palestinians, along with their respective governments, are now largely on the same side: they all want peace, compromise, and a two-state solution.”

If this is the case, why would Dershowitz declare that “only guarantee of peace” as quoted above, be a “superior Israeli military deterrent” when you have mainstream Palestinians and their respective government are on the same side as mainstream Israeli and their respective government? With the all the “mainstream” Palestinians running around all over Gaza and the West Bank, Israel should only have to rely on their “mainstream” negotiation skills and not a superior military, right Mr. Dershowitz?

2. If the Palestinians still holds a tendency to go to war with Israel at any given time that they feel capable of destroying Israel, (as apparently Dershowitz believes they have never deviated from while advocating for Palestinian statehood) why should the Palestinians receive any land whatsoever? Would giving the Palestinians a state help support or reduce to chances of a Palestinian victory in the ever-possible, all-out future war with Israel? If so, what are the moderates who are advocates land-for-peace, really setting the nation of Israel up for? I would think that even through a moderate non-biblical reasoning, the Palestinians should not receive land or aid in any form or fashion until they can prove beyond any shadow of doubt that they can be trusted just the same (and not one ounce less) as Israel can be trusted. Is there anything unjustly wrong with this reasoning?

If the Palestinians had military superiority over Israel as much as Israel has military superiority over them now, what would happen? Until the absolute honest answer to this question and without any doubt whatsoever is: “the exact same political willingness for peace that Israel has shown the Palestinians for the last sixty years” the Palestinians shouldn’t receive a rusted-out penny of aid or the scrapings from a piece of gravel from the ancient land of Israel! Let me ask again, did I suggest something unjustly or one-sided wrong? Did I just express an extremist view or what? Did I just go beyond all boundaries of common sense? What part of "too-extremism" don’t I understand?

Would making the Palestinians prove their peacefulness be way, way, too much of a burden to put on these, same-side of peace, mainstream Palestinians? The sad part is that these moderates know very well that the Palestinians will never have it within themselves to recognize Israel as a sovereign Jewish state that is considered Waqf Islamic land, that they can have peace with. Yet these moderates push, and keep pushing for these Palestinian devils to have a state, (and a terrorist state at that) right beside peaceful Israel!

I know what I’m saying makes absolute perfect sense. Just looking at the Palestinians’ history speaks volumes of what they will continued to do in the future. Terrorists are like rabid dogs who can’t change their nature without a nature change. A Palestinian Islamic-fascist can no more peel off his suicide belt than a tiger can peel off its stripes. The problem is that any government position that requires the Palestinian leaders to go against their Islamic nature and accept the state of Jewish Israel, literally goes far beyond the perimeters of the intended goal of the Saudi Arabian devised and United Nations-supporting, roadmap plan, which in their minds is the first steps towards the total destruction of Israel! Yet the United States continues to insist on creation of a Palestinian state come hail, high winds, or high water.1 It seems in the eyes of the United States that it is the United Nations that is the only “authorized” organization that is able to set the guidelines for true justice, common sense, and world opinion.

Dershowitz claim: "Nor is it out of the question that someday Hamas might gain control over the Palestinian government, either by means of a coup, an election, or some such combination. Israel cannot be asked to accept a fully militarized Hamas state on its vulnerable borders."

My answer:
Its interesting to note that Dershowitz’s book “A Case for Peace” came out just before the Palestinian election in January, 2006 when the entire world (including Dershowitz himself) expected the Fatah party to win over the party that was recognized by the US State Department as a “terrorist organization”. Oh how the United States, United Nations, European Union, and all the moderate Kadima-voting Jews in Israel were so hoping for the innocent, terrorist-free Fatah party to win, so that the only chance for peace in their minds - the peace process could continue. Oh how shocked the world was to learn that a Palestinian people as a whole, overwhelmingly elected a party that is more anti-Semitic and more devoted towards killing Jews than that of the Nazis!

For Hamas to actually win in a democratic free-election just like Hitler did in 1932 should be a massive wake-up call for any government supporting a Palestinian state. Hamas not only won big-time at the polls, but their victory made a pro-terrorist statement for all the world to see that it was the Palestinian people as a whole who voted this evil-terrorist organization into office! There were however a few Jews and non-Jews alike who were not surprised by this Hamas grand victory. These people who were not surprised like the rest of the world were known by the rest of the surprised world, as pro-Israel (non-moderate) extremist! Go figure.

Notes:
1. Speaking of hail, high winds, and high water, did you notice that in September 2005 as thousands of religious Jews in Gaza were being expelled and displaced from their homes, millions of Americans were being expelled and displaced from their homes as well, due to the greatest natural disaster (acts of God) in US history? Coincidence? I, as an extremist, extremely don’t think so! It's worth keeping your eye on this country's welfare as it presses the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) to become Judenrein.