Dershowitz Goes Off on Obama Over Israel Comments: 'I'm Ashamed That I Was Your Friend'
By Randy DeSoto
November 10, 2023 at 3:26pm

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on his podcast Wednesday called former President Barack Obama an “enemy of the Jewish people.”

Last week, while speaking at an Obama Foundation event in Chicago, the 44th president addressed the Israel-Hamas war saying that both sides of the conflict harboured some semblance of responsibility.

On October 7, Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip killing approximately 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping over 200 more.

The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry claims more than 9,000 Gazans have been killed since the war broke out.

“What Hamas did was horrific and there’s no justification for it,” Obama stated.

“And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable,” he added, which drew applause from the audience.

“If you want to solve the problem, you have to take in the whole truth, and you have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,” Obama said.

Obama’s drawing of a moral equivalency between the two sides drew a sharp rebuke from Dershowitz on his “The Dershow” podcast on Wednesday.

“You can’t make those kinds of comparisons Barack Obama. I have to tell you what you did is just despicable. It’s beneath contempt,” said Dershowitz, who is Jewish and has been a strong defender of Israel for decades.

“Whatever respect I had for you, I have absolutely lost. Fortunately, so have many other Americans lost respect for you,” he added.

“I’m ashamed that I was your friend. I’m ashamed that I invited you to my birthday party. I’m ashamed that I accepted your invitation to the Oval Office. I’m ashamed that I allowed you to fool me into thinking that you actually supported Israel. You do not,” Dershowitz said.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzXEtfAybFI

Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat, predicted his Party would pay a heavy price for Obama’s comments should he decide to campaign for candidates in 2024.

“It was not a slip of the tongue. It was a very carefully contrived statement, trying to create a sense of equality and moral unclarity and moral comparison between something that can never be excused – murder, rape, beheadings – and something that is controversial politically and that you Barack Obama didn’t do very much to help the Palestinians get out of,” the professor said.

“You have been an enemy of justice, an enemy to Israel, and an enemy to the Jewish people, and an enemy to decency. And I’m embarrassed I ever thought as highly of you as I obviously did. I was fooled by you. I’ll never be fooled again,” Dershowitz concluded regarding the former President.

Appearing on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” Friday, he further explained his anger towards Obama.

“First he said the occupation is unbearable. He just lied through his teeth. There is no occupation of Gaza,” Dershowitz told host Maria Bartiromo.

“If life is unbearable in Gaza, it is because Hamas has been in control. The kleptocracy. People have stolen billions of dollars that were intended for humanitarian aid and put it in their own personal bank accounts in Qatar,” he added.

Dershowitz further argued there is no Israeli occupation of the West Bank either, saying the Palestinian Authority’s capital of Ramallah is a beautiful city.

Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, which included removing over 9,000 Israeli citizens living in settlements in the region to the pre-1967 Six Day War

In 2006, Hamas won a majority in the parliamentary elections and the following year the terrorist group seized control Gaza from the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, which administers the semi-autonomous areas of the West Bank, The Associated Press reported.

As part of the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1994, Israeli forces had agreed to a framework for Palestinian self-government.

Violent flareups followed, causing Israel to go back into Gaza, before withdrawing again in 2005.

Dershowitz contended though Obama said “the attacks by Hamas are not justifiable. He made them justifiable, because if life really is unbearable, as it’s not, then you can do anything you want to make it bearable and what he did was contribute to the risks of not only Israelis, but Americans because it’s coming to a theater near you.”

“I think he always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well,” Dershowitz said of Obama. “And finally his true feelings have come out now that he’s no longer president.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/dershowitz-goes-off-obama-israel-comments-ashamed-friend/

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Last week, while speaking at an Obama Foundation event in Chicago, the 44th president addressed the Israel-Hamas war saying that both sides of the conflict harbored some semblance of responsibility.

Please what is wrong with this statement?

I have said it, anyone in support of either Hamas or Isreal is a religion bigot.

In a war, there is nothing about who is right but what is left.

Calling a spade what it is is now challenging to some people. You should be ashamed of yourself Emeritus .

Eish

Epic. The lies through the teeth comment. More Revealations unfolding about what is really happening.

Political Correctness

Alan Derzowitz is a known idiot

helinues:


Please what is wrong with this statement?

I have said it, anyone in support of either Hamas or Isreal is a religion bigot.

In a war, there is nothing about who is right but what is left.

Calling a spade what it is is now challenging to some people. You should be ashamed of yourself Emeritus .

Eish

This has nothing to do with religion. I think NIgerians are some of the only people remaining that think this is a religious war. One group of people came from somewhere to occupy the land of another person. If you're anglican and a catholic steals your car, is the issue the religions or the car?

Ofodirinwa:


This has nothing to do with religion. I think NIgerians are some of the only people remaining that think this is a religious war. One group of people came from somewhere to occupy the land of another person. If you're anglican and a catholic steals your car, is the issue the religions or the car?

This is a religious war.

See, I had this conversation of Palestine and Isreal with some fanatic Muslim outside Nigeria some years ago, They have this passionate hatred for Isreal for what happened in the past, and that's how average fanatic Muslim mindsets are.

Why is Iran having issue with Isreal making peace with Saudi Arabia?

The fanatics Muslim support Palestine while the fanatics Christian support Isreal. Both are bigots

The war is an unending generational war.

Obama is absolutely right. That other guy is just attacking the messenger because he doesn't have enough braincells to comprehend the message or perhaps he is just a genocide lover

Playing The Middle
A.F. BRANCO on November 7, 2023 at 5:00 am

O Response


Cartoon – Obama is trying to play the middle in the Hamas-Israeli conflict by taking a position that seems to give leniency to Hamas in spite of their subhuman bloody attacks on innocent Israeli citizens. Obama has a lot of blood on his hand from when he gave Iran pallets of cash to Iran in an effort to get a ridiculous nuclear deal that has quite possibly been used in this attack or ones similar to this.

At least when Trump eluded that there are "Very fine people on both sides," he wasn't referring to the Nazis or white supremacists part of the crowd and made that very clear. However, the media leaves that part out.

Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2023

Spirit04:


Obama is absolutely right. That other guy is just attacking the messenger because he doesn't have enough braincells to comprehend the message or perhaps he is just a genocide lover

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz: "[Obama] always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well."

OLAADEGBU:


Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz: "[Obama] always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well."

so saying Israel should stop murdering people means someone hates Israel?

helinues:


This is a religious war.

See, I had this conversation of Palestine and Isreal with some fanatic Muslim outside Nigeria some years ago, They have this passionate hatred for Isreal for what happened in the past, and that's how average fanatic Muslim mindsets are.

Why is Iran having issue with Isreal making peace with Saudi Arabia?

The fanatics Muslim support Palestine while the fanatics Christian support Isreal. Both are bigots

The war is an unending generational war.

There are people who are no fan of religion,but support the Palestinian cause..so how does fanaticism and bigotry factor in?

Why is Iran having issue with Isreal making peace with Saudi Arabia?

Why is Israel occupying Palestinians Territories and visiting genocide upon them for more than three decades with Western support? To you, it's okay for Israel to have Western support but
you frown at Iran looking out for the Palestinians interest.

The Saudis will sell off Palestinians Territories to Israel to gain favours from the West,but Iran will never do that.

descartes400:


There are people who are no fan of religion,but support the Palestinian cause..so how does fanaticism and bigotry factor in?



Why is Israel occupying Palestinians Territories and visiting genocide upon them for more than three decades with Western support? To you, it's okay for Israel to have Western support but
you frown at Iran looking out for the Palestinians interest.

The Saudis will sell off Palestinians Territories to Israel to gain favours from the West,but Iran will never do that.

total jagonx....go back to your history class....werey

TNORWAY:
total jagonx....go back to your history class....werey

A man with no strength and no knowledge simply reverts to insults.

descartes400:


There are people who are no fan of religion,but support the Palestinian cause..so how does fanaticism and bigotry factor in?



Why is Israel occupying Palestinians Territories and visiting genocide upon them for more than three decades with Western support? To you, it's okay for Israel to have Western support but
you frown at Iran looking out for the Palestinians interest.

The Saudis will sell off Palestinians Territories to Israel to gain favours from the West,but Iran will never do that.

And is that the justification for the illiterate Hamas to have committed terror attack in Isreal on Oct 7 ?

Ofodirinwa:
Alan Derzowitz is a known idiot


This has nothing to do with religion. I think NIgerians are some of the only people remaining that think this is a religious war. One group of people came from somewhere to occupy the land of another person. If you're anglican and a catholic steals your car, is the issue the religions or the car?

is a religious war...if israel is Muslim country i dont think u will hear abut this conflict as much as we do now....Since a jews woman poisoned Prophet M*hamm*d,the muslims hated the jews/christians.

Lamentations of a crazy Jew.

A Just Response
A.F. BRANCO on November 10, 2023 at 4:00 am

Israel and Hamas Duel


The world is asking for a cease-fire. We had a cease-fire until the Palestinians slaughtered 1400 innocent Israeli citizens in a barbaric, unprovoked sneak attack.

All people, including Israel, have the right to defend themselves despite what the woke communist brainwashed left in America. How anyone can think this bloodbath of innocent men, women, and children is justified is mind-blowing to any reasonable human being.

Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2023.

Death to all head slamming mohammadian terrorists

God bless Israel for doing the lord's work

Obama is part of head slammers

God bless the good people of Southsouth and Southwest

Obama isn't just an anti Jew but also anti America

Obama is a secret Muslim extremist. He hates Jews and Christians.


Obama made sure he frustrated Goodluck Jonathan a Christian President just to enthrone Buhari a well known Muslim Jihadist and coupist as President of Nigeria in 2015.


That singular act destroyed the little progress Nigeria ever achieved since independence.


Obama is an enemy of humanity and justice, he is a coded Muslim terrorist

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helinues:


Please what is wrong with this statement?

I have said it, anyone in support of either Hamas or Isreal is a religion bigot.

In a war, there is nothing about who is right but what is left.

Calling a spade what it is is now challenging to some people. You should be ashamed of yourself Emeritus .

Eish

exactly, one thing about war that they are always initiated by the elite or upper class for greed or selfish reason but the main people who fight and suffer for what they don't even understand (usually are brainwashed with loyalty and patriotism) are the lower class or masses

Ofodirinwa:
Alan Derzowitz is a known idiot


This has nothing to do with religion. I think NIgerians are some of the only people remaining that think this is a religious war. One group of people came from somewhere to occupy the land of another person. If you're anglican and a catholic steals your car, is the issue the religions or the car?

That's how they've been trying to gaslight us into thinking it's not about religion. While for most Nigerian Muslims, it is a religious war.

Hamas made it clear that they attacked Israel because of the Al-Aqsa mosque events, and not because of any situation in Gaza.

All the groups we see holding protests for Hamas in Nigeria are Muslim groups.

When they tell us it's not religious, they are being dishonest because even though for Israel, the war is about putting an end to terrorists who use their people as cannon fodder, Nigerian Muslims see it as a religious war. Then turn around and ask the Christians not to see it as religious.

For the South Africans it is not religious. It is about supporting their friends, and we see that.

But for Nigerian Muslims, it is religious.

For the Saudi or Egypti Muslim, they would love for Israel to obliterate Hamas. For religious reasons, even.

For Russia, it is about a proxy war with the US.

But for Nigerian Muslims, I repeat, it's about religion. Make no mistake about that. And while everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if for religious reasons, we expect honesty about it.

Do not tell Christians that it is not about religion, when for you it is. Have a frank, open and honest discussion. That's the only way we learn to live with each other.

Enemy Within
A.F. BRANCO on November 8, 2023 at 5:00 am

Not White Supremacists


For the past three years, Biden has been beating the "white-supremacy-is-the-greatest-threat-to-our-Homeland" drum with virtually no evidence that it's happening. While ignoring Black-on-Black crime and murder, and multiple threats and assaults on Jews, etc.

Though Biden tried to sound strong on the side of Israel, but in typical Biden fashion, he appears to be waffling toward a cease-fire and pushing for humanitarian aid that will eventually be spent on more weapons to be used to kill more innocent Israelis. Cartoon by A.F. Branco.

helinues:


And is that the justification for the illiterate Hamas to have committed terror attack in Isreal on Oct 7 ?

Helinues get a job and leave your parents house.

Narrow Focus
Michael Ramirez November 9, 2023


As a sitting member of Congress, you would think she had important domestic issues to deal with for her constituents. Instead, she's focused on bashing America and siding with terrorists.

Editorial cartoon by Michael Ramirez. Commentary by R. Mitchell, Editor-in-chief.

Jewish fool's,their propaganda years is way over and people are beginning to see them for who they are,multi-faced deceivers who have used the Holocaust to Garner sympathy for years and have now turned into murderous animals themselves.

helinues:


And is that the justification for the illiterate Hamas to have committed terror attack in Isreal on Oct 7 ?

Are you claiming that a victim of a Rapist while being raped or attempted being raped have no right to and or of self defense?

Helinues! Calling Hamas illiterate is like calling Nelson Mandela of ANC illiterate for fighting against the then Apartheid state of South Africa.

An occupier (the Zionist state of Israel) occupying Palestinian territories does not have the right to self defense.

Hamas is a resistant organisation fighting against the Apartheid Zionist state of Isreal!

I support without reservation the right of self defense. Without any doubt I will  be involve my self in voilent resistance if I were a citizen of Palestine or Iraq or Afghanistan,among others.

And if were a citizen of the USA, Britain or Nigeria and someone  halfway around the world came into my country and started stealing my land and killing my family, guess what? I will defend my country as well, so I absolutely 100 percent will defend the right of self defense and I will never shy away from that.

I will never join the long list of embarrassment who condemn terrorism and forgetting to acknowledge that the biggest terrorist in the planet is the United State government for all the terrorism around the world.

Spirit04:
so saying Israel should stop murdering people means someone hates Israel?

Welcome to the new reality... We need multipolarism.

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Mordecai:




That's how they've been trying to gaslight us into thinking it's not about religion. While for most Nigerian Muslims, it is a religious war.

Hamas made it clear that they attacked Israel because of the Al-Aqsa mosque events, and not because of any situation in Gaza.

All the groups we see holding protests for Hamas in Nigeria are Muslim groups.

When they tell us it's not religious, they are being dishonest because even though for Israel, the war is about putting an end to terrorists who use their people as cannon fodder, Nigerian Muslims see it as a religious war. Then turn around and ask the Christians not to see it as religious.

For the South Africans it is not religious. It is about supporting their friends, and we see that.

But for Nigerian Muslims, it is religious.

For the Saudi or Egypti Muslim, they would love for Israel to obliterate Hamas. For religious reasons, even.

For Russia, it is about a proxy war with the US.

But for Nigerian Muslims, I repeat, it's about religion. Make no mistake about that. And while everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if for religious reasons, we expect honesty about it.

Do not tell Christians that it is not about religion, when for you it is. Have a frank, open and honest discussion. That's the only way we learn to live with each other.

Bro this is how a baby thinks. It's not about religion. Religion doesn't matter beyond Nigeria. I undestand that Nigerian muslims feel like this and Nigerian christians feel like that, but these are two stupid people that don't matter. So maybe you're at home and you're still thinking that's how people are operating, but it's not. I can only tell you that I mean what I'm saying 100% and hope you can learn. Nobody is going to enter battle, strategize, or plan foriegn policy based on religion. Saudi Arabia is Israel's main ally. Iran is Israel's main enemy.