{"id":1466,"date":"2006-08-13T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T11:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2006-08-13T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T11:36:47","slug":"2006-8-13-targeted-vituperation-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Targeted vituperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Thanks to the often amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angryarab.blogspot.com\/\">Angry Arab<\/a> for the link to a little light summertime reading, to whit to Norm Finkelstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.com\/finkelstein08122006.html\">latest rhetorical head<\/a> butt to Alan Dershowitz.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guise of taking apart Dershowitz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political-legal analyses Finkelstein gets off some nice shots: his victim is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153notorious serial prevaricator\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153moral pervert\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd who \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mounts his case from multiple angles, sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly, but always falsely.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<\/p>\n<p>Aaah, the sweet art of the <em>ad hominem<\/em> academic slapdown.<\/p>\n<p>Overall the piece is a lot of fun, and provides some nice ammo for after-dinner arguments. Finkelstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comments on civilian culpability and casualties, and the implications of blurring civilian\/military distinctions are one high point. Another comes at the very end where, well, he answers the question raised in the title.<\/p>\n<p>In the same vein (readable, consumer level stuff on international law) Philippe Sands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/reviews\/legal\/sandsp.htm\"><em>Lawless World<\/em><\/a> provides a good clear primer on the political\/judicial terrain over which Finkelstein and Dershowitz are punching each other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lights out.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Thanks to the often amusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angryarab.blogspot.com\/\">Angry Arab<\/a> for the link to a little light summertime reading, to whit to Norm Finkelstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.com\/finkelstein08122006.html\">latest rhetorical head<\/a> butt to Alan Dershowitz.<br \/>\nUnder the guise of taking apart Dershowitz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political-legal analyses Finkelstein gets off some nice shots: his victim is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153notorious serial prevaricator\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153moral pervert\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd who \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mounts his case from multiple angles, sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly, but always falsely.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<br \/>\nAaah, the sweet art of the <em>ad hominem<\/em> academic slapdown.<br \/>\nOverall the piece is a lot of fun, and provides some nice ammo for after-dinner arguments. Finkelstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comments on civilian culpability and casualties, and the implications of blurring civilian\/military distinctions are one high point. Another comes at the very end where, well, he answers the question raised in the title.<br \/>\nIn the same vein (readable, consumer level stuff on international law) Philippe Sands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/reviews\/legal\/sandsp.htm\"><em>Lawless World<\/em><\/a> provides a good clear primer on the political\/judicial terrain over which Finkelstein and Dershowitz are punching each other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lights out.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[43,59,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}