Dershowitz: Don't weep for Lebanon. They deserved it.

As Israel's tactic's against the civilian population of Lebanon draws inevitable criticism from around the globe, it's defenders are having to conjure up ever more bizarre arguments in an attempt to hold on to the moral high ground.

However, special place must be reserved for Alan Dershowitz who makes claims that are so abhorrent that one must wonder if he's losing his mind in all of this.

In an article published, for some unfathomable reason, in The Huffington Post, he makes the following claim:

Lebanon has now declared war on Israel and its citizens are bearing the consequences. Lebanon is no more a victim of Hezbollah than Austria was a victim of Nazism.

If there is a more disgusting argument put forward to support this conflict I will be stunned. I can't imagine anyone will manage to sink to lower depths than Dershowitz has plumbed. Dershowitz is now asking that we stop feeling any sympathy for the civilians killed in Lebanon and start to see them as terrorist sympathisers.

We must stop viewing Lebanon as a victim and begin to see it as a collaborator with terrorism.

With the horrendous pictures of Lebanese civilians injured and killed in this conflict beaming across the world, I can understand the difficulty defenders of Israel must face at this time, but to compare these Lebanese victims to Nazi collaborators really is a step too far.

He then attempts to portray most of the dead as possible terrorists anyway, citing the fact that all Lebanese people could be possible members of Hizbullah.

It is virtually impossible to distinguish the Hezbollah dead from the truly civilian dead, just as it is virtually impossible to distinguish the Hezbollah living from the civilian living, especially in the south. The "civilian" death figures reported by Lebanese authorities include large numbers of Hezbollah fighters, collaborators, facilitators and active supporters.

I'm sorry Mr Dershowitz, but I'm willing to stick my neck out here and say that I am confident none of the dead Lebanese children were part of Hizbullah. However, Dershowitz has already covered that part of the debate, no doubt to counter the very arguments that people like myself would pose.

They also include civilians who were warned to leave, but chose to remain, sometimes with their children, to serve as human shields.

So anyone remaining in southern Lebanon are not there because they lack a means of leaving, or are frightened to go for fear of coming under the kind of assault that the Israelis have been launching on civilian convoys, they are there because they have actively chosen to remain there in order to form a human shield.

At which point, I presume all sympathy for these little terrorist quasi-Nazi bastards should cease? He also has an argument for the fact that Hizbullah provide social services in Lebanon:

The Nazi party too provided social, economic and educational services to the poor in Germany and Austria. Yet the people who chose to submit to such evil paid a heavy price. People make choices and they bear the consequences of choosing to collaborate with terrorism.

Dershowitz is making the same argument that bin Laden made to justify the killing of 3,000 American citizens on 9-11. Bin Laden's argument was that, as a democracy, the American civilian population was responsible for the actions of their government and, at that point, became legitimate targets.

The entire world, rightly, rejected that philosophy.

How sad that, in his desperation to defend Israel at any length, Dershowitz should now find himself parroting the arguments of bin Laden. When you find yourself in that company, I think it's safe to assume the moral high ground has been lost.

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