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When needing to beg or warn the Democrats to "love us, don't take us for granted, or else", the battle is already lost. The Dems & Biden have showed you who they are. Believe them! Alan, you already ditched Obama after embracing him as a great friend for years. You were in denial for how long? He had also abandoned Israel at the UN and showed pathetic weakness with the Iran "deal". Stop begging these anti-Israel woke leftists to love you/Israel! If YOU love Israel AND America, vote Republican for crying out loud! Yes, vote Trump! Or keep voting for Democrats and pray we'll have a country and Jews will continue to have a homeland by the time you turn 90.

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Read and learn why anyone pro-Israel should NEVER even entertain the notion of voting for the Dems & Biden. Lieberman understood this, but was genial enough to give Dems some notice. When a former conservative pro-Israel Democrat like Schumer throws Israel under the bus, it's way past time for patriotic, pro-Israel Americans to throw the disgusting Democrats under the bus! Way past time! That means you Alan Dershowitz! https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/president-biden-war-against-jews

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Why do you want to continue to support Democrats? How presumptuous to say Israel should be “allowed” to defend itself! Should the UK or France be “allowed” to defend themselves? Isn’t it clear by now, after centuries of evidence, that the Muslim terrorists want to destroy not only Israel but also the United States and Western civilization? Biden has literally funded the October 2023 attack against Israel by releasing funds to Iran, the leading state sponsor of terrorism. And now he’s telling Israel to commit national suicide by not eliminating Hamas. Israel’s only alternative might be to use nuclear weapons against Iran before Iran develops a nuclear bomb capability with Biden’s help.

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Mar 28·edited Mar 28

You are the best when it comes to the law, especially Constitutional law, there is none better. In your American politics however, you are gravely misguided.....

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Loathe to speak ill of the dead, but Joe Lieberman was not a good person.

He was a whore for the insurance industry, and he, more than anyone else, is responsible for the mess in the American medical industry. (Ben Nelson [NE] and Barry Obama are very high on this list also.)

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I am with you 100% Alan but I have bad news for you: elections are counting numbers. How many Jews are there versus how many left wing radicals that hate Israel and how many Arabs in Michigan etc. Conceivably, they could write us Jews off by calculating they will gain more votes by going against Israel more than they have. Have you ever realized thought of that?

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Maybe we can paraphrase James Carville and say "it's the donations, stupid"

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Yes we agree Jerome and I'm afraid Alan has brilliant as he is has a blind spot and doesn't realize there are not as many Jewish voters as there are anti-Jewish voters. Sad but true

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I appreciate Sen Liebermans stand along with yours. I am a big fan of both. And may the Senators memory be a blessing. What am I sipposed to do next November? I physically and morally cannot vote for T––––. If I withhold my vote from Biden as per your advisory it will help elect one of the worst human beings to ever run for office. If that's your only recourse we will have to aprt ways.

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You obviously missed the time when President Trump brought peace to the Middle East. He worked on the Abraham Accords and if that traitor Bribery Biden had not rigged the election, there would have remained peace today between Israel and Hamas. It was Biden who lifted the sanctions on Iran enabling them to raise funds and thereby creating rockets and mayhem for Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis. Sir, do you ever read research or just listen to lies on CNN? Trump was a peace maker. So think again and do vote for patriotism!

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Dear Professor Dershowitz,

I am 100% behind you are Joe Liberman on all comments supporting Israel. I wrote a long letter/email to you and sent it to your email address at Harvard. But maybe you have not received it. I hope you did. Happy to send again. MY email is offie@bigpond.net.au

אלוהים יברך ויגן על ישראל

Leon Craig Offenhauser

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Why do U.S. tax payers have to send weapons to Israel?

I support Israel's right to self defense. But if they want weapons, then they should buy them. Pay us money.

American taxpayers are not a charity organization.

If you dont want to buy them, then manufacture them yourself. Our manufacturers produce weapons for profit.

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You need now to abide by standard full disclosure. Tell your Substack audience about your primary loyalty so that people can consider it when assessing your advocacy for an American war with Iran or further American complicity with overt Israeli commission of war crimes and genocide.

A starting point is that the American Constitution does not require you to be primarily loyal to the United States rather than to some foreign national entity. America has had, and still has, many religious emigrants more loyal to a religion or a home country than to America or its values. According to recent (since the movie) KGB file releases, Oppenheimer at a time before he considered joining the Manhattan Project seemed more loyal to the Communist State than the Unitrd States. No crime there, the Party was legal and Oppenheimer did not commit perjury before he joined the Manhattan Project. Loyalty is however a relevant issue when you do not inform your readers or listeners of your primary loyalty. Many of these podcastees are young, many in the Covid Generation are uninformed, and simply presume you, as a known celebrity professor, have the interests of the United States foremost in your heart since you have been American all your life, collect baseball cards, and have made your fortune (legitimately or thru Epstein) in America. By failing full disclosure you commit a fraud on your Substack platform. This is of course nothing compared to what you did for Jeffrey Epstein, but your Covid Gerneration audience is too young and religiously close.minded to know your details with the late Epstein..

You need to inform people that though you are an agnostic Jew, your loyalty is first and foremost to The Jewish State. As an agnostic, you are thereby not primarily loyal to a religion, but to a race (Jews) . Inform your audience that this primary loyalty is maintained regardless of current Israeli leadership ideology, regardless of apartheid (which is simply apodictally denied), regardless of genocide (which is simply offhandedly denied despite the provisional ICJ ruling)., Disclose that when that loyalty to Israel and its leaders conflicts with loyalty to America, loyalty to Israel prevails. This is important for your audience to know when you advocate an American war with Iran, when you advocate for continued supply of American bombs to exterminating/driving out the non-Jewish "demographic threat" to the Jewish State.

Under conditions of full disclosure your propaganda and completely unbalanced review of events in the Holy Land will be expected . Your Substack audience cannot claim to be hoodwinked.. Obviously America has nothing to gain by a war with Iran, which given America's past experience will end badly despite America's ability to destroy. America has nothing to gain by complicity with war crimes of the IDF. America is defnitely not even an ally of a racist, genocidal Jewish State since these attributes no longer define America. And when did Israel ever do something for America?

But if you give full disclosure, requirements of intellectual caveat emptor are satisfied. You can in every podcast recite the speeches of Netanyahu, and even proclaim him as necessary for the continuation of the Jewish State and claim him as the expected Messiah, and it will be unreasonable then to object that you have s Substack platform.

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What Israel does for America:

1. Israel is the most productive, cost-effective, battle-tested laboratory for the U.S. defense industries and armed forces, as demonstrated by the F-35, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets—as well as by hundreds of additional U.S. military systems employed by Israel. This unique Israeli combat experience has promoted U.S. military systems throughout the world, advancing U.S. exports.

The Israeli experience/lessons have been constantly shared with the U.S. manufacturers and the U.S. Air Force. It has upgraded the quality of U.S. combat aircraft, thus sparing the U.S. defense industry many years and billions of dollars in research and development; enhancing U.S. competitiveness in global competition; increasing U.S. exports and expanding the U.S. employment base. The Israeli laboratory has yielded a mega-billion-dollar bonanza to the U.S. defense industries and enhanced the performance of the U.S. Air Force and other branches of the U.S. military.

Israel’s battle experience has been shared with the U.S. armed forces, such as special forces on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan, who spend two to three weeks in Israel being trained by Israel’s top experts on neutralizing car bombs, suicide bombers and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

Furthermore, the Israeli battle experience (wars and counter-terrorism) has been shared with the United States, impacting much of the U.S. Army battle-tactic formulation in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

2. Israel is the most productive external source of military intelligence for the United States, exceeding all NATO countries combined (e.g., the entire Iranian nuclear archive; battle tactics of potential and actual enemies; advantages and disadvantages of hostile military systems; counter-terrorism; and preempting Middle East flare-ups). Israel has assisted in foiling anti-U.S. terrorism and attempts to topple pro-U.S. Arab regimes.

According to Gen. George Keegan, a former chief of U.S. Air Force Intelligence: “I could not have procured the intelligence [received from Israel] with five CIAs.” In order to realistically assess the magnitude of Israel’s contribution to U.S. intelligence, one should note that the annual budget of the CIA is about $15 billion.

3. Israel is a most innovative hub of U.S. commercial high-tech, second only to the United States, hosting research and development centers of some 250 U.S. high-tech giants, such as Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Apple, HP, Kodak, Google, Facebook, IBM, AOL, Applied Materials, Johnson & Johnson, etc. These U.S. giants leverage the brainpower of Israel—the “Startup Nation”—in order to expand U.S. production, exports and employment.

4. Israel is a uniquely reliable, effective and democratic outpost of the United States in the extremely critical area between Europe, Asia and Africa, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, which extends the strategic reach of the United States, with no need for additional U.S. military personnel.

Also, Israel’s posture of deterrence, defense technologies, battle experience, intelligence network and training capabilities play a major role in securing the highly vulnerable pro-U.S. Arab regimes (e.g., Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco), which face existential threats from Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic State.

As stated by the late Gen. Alexander Haig, a former Supreme Commander of NATO and U.S. Secretary of State: Israel is the largest U.S. aircraft carrier, which does not require a single boot on board, is located in a most strategic area for U.S. military and economic interests, and cannot be sunk. If there were not an Israel in the eastern flank of the Mediterranean, the United States would have to dispatch a few more aircraft carriers to the region, in addition to a few more ground divisions, at an annual (manufacturing, deployment, maintenance) cost of $15 billion to $20 billion.

In conclusion, Israel is a unique military and commercial force multiplier for the United States.

Accordingly, the United States makes an annual investment in, rather than extending foreign aid to, Israel, which yields a few hundred percent annual rate-of-return to the American taxpayer.

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Well Laura, you have used a lot of time to type rthis out. Compliments on avoiding for once any emotionally-driven epithets. These epithets just result in your posts being reported to Substack. Yet all that you wrote is dismissable with a few sentences. The US does not need Israeli jews to battle-test its weapons since trheir testing is done on an unarmed civilian population. The USA is committed to obey International Humanitarian Law (read the google entry) and thereby makers appreciable efforts to avoiding the harm to civilians that the IDF routinely causes and clearly enjoys (minimizing the "demographic threat" of all those Arab children) 200 years ago some Americans were like israeli Jews ("the only good Indian is a dead Indian") . America evolved. Israeli Jews de-evolved as evidenced by their war against the unarmed despite Israel's ratification of the aforestated Law and its Treaty.

Briefly stated, the US Military has learned a sense of morality in war, The IDF sees morality as an unnecessary obstacle to mission effectiveness. For Israeli IDF Jews, it is okm to kill 500 civilians to masybe kill or injure one single Hamas official (the latest bombing of a Refugee Camp in Gaza). The US Military has Human -Rights Officers who evaluate military targets as to proportionality of harm to civilians. Nobody in the IDF or the Netanuyahu government understands the legal concept of "proportionality". This is what the ICJ will teach Israeli Jews within a year.

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Wir sind zuerst Deutsche, keine Juden! There are no first class seats on cattle cars!

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The unarmed non-jews of Gaza do not even get to ride on cattle cars. They have to walk all the way to their concentration camp, where they are bombed andf starved. First, Doctor, do no harm with your opinions and prejudices.

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Ignorance has no limits. I'm not going to review with you the number of times over the past hundred years the Palestinians were given the opportunity to have a Palestinian State consisting of 95-98 % of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as it's Capitol. The Palestinians said no & responded by killing Jews in cars, on buses & in restaurants. On Oct.7. Hamas aided by pease loving Palestinian civilians murdered, raped, beheaded, cooked infants & kidnaped peaceniks who just happened to be Jews. It's been reported that 75-80 % of Palestinians support Hamas. Lovely people all. Nazis are marching in the streets & on college campuses screaming "From the river to the sea Palestine will be Judenreine". You see we've been there before when from 1932-1945 6-8 million Jews were slaughtered while the world either did nothing or aided & abetted. 1.5 million Jewish children were also murdered. So when it comes to Gaza if you create a hell expect to live in a hell! In 1972 King Hussein of Jorden killed 23,000 Palestinians & the UN & the world did what? The Houthis have murdered 200,000 civilians in Yemen & in Nigeria tens of thousands have been murdered. The UN & the world did what? China has murdered & incarcerated how many Uyghurs & the UN & the world said what? Here's the thing! We're dealing with 2000 years of JewHatred. Jews are the Canary in the mine shaft. It Always begins with the Jews but never ends with the Jews. The Crusaders are next in line. Perhaps if you raise your right arm & shout Sig Heil you might, & it's a big might, be saved!

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Standing with you, falling for no deceptive antics!

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