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<title><![CDATA[Alan M. Dershowitz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16087.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alan M. Dershowitz]]></description><category domain="16087">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Stand Up for Civil Liberties?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/24/who_will_stand_up_for_civil_liberties_133975.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a moment in history when the ACLU is quickly becoming a partisan left-wing advocacy group that cares more about getting President Trump than protecting due process (see my recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal), who is standing up for civil liberties?
The short answer is no one. Not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Special Counsel Mueller Is Bad News for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/05/20/dershowitz_calls_special_counsel_mueller_good_news_for_trump_hes_going_to_find_no_crime.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Political wrongdoing, but it's just not a crime," he said. "Nobody can point me to a statute that would be violated. And a prosecutor is only allowed to look for evidence of a federal crime." "Nobody can point me to a statute that would be violated. And a prosecutor is only allowed to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Be So Sure That Trump Obstructed Justice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-obstruct-justice-depends-details-article-1.3173611</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although the White House denies that President Trump asked then FBI Director James Comey to]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where's the ACLU When You Need It?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Its new guard reflects the left&rsquo;s turn against liberal values and toward progressive politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump and Netanyahu Will Get Along Well]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-trump-and-netanyahu-will-get-along-well/article/2614810</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I know them both &mdash; Netanyahu better than Trump &mdash; and I believe they will get along well. They are both no-nonsense pragmatists who understand the relationship between economic development and political progress. We all know of Trump's business background and focus on jobs and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sally Yates Was Wrong and Should Have Resigned]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/317081-shes-no-hero-sally-yates-should-have-resigned</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sally Yates is neither a hero, nor a villain. She made an honest mistake when she instructed the entire Justice Department not to defend President Trump&rsquo;s wrong-headed executive order on immigration. The reasons she gave in her letter referred to matters beyond the scope of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Consequences of Obama's Anti-Israel Effort]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/12/27/the-consequences-not-vetoing-resolution-against-israel/E06kgDJUrPrXeSmp06umCL/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AMID THE CONTINUING controversy over the Obama administration&rsquo;s refusal to veto the Security Council&rsquo;s resolution regarding Israeli &ldquo;settlements,&rdquo; it is important to understand why Israeli leaders across the political spectrum as well as American supporters of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama Pulls Bait-and-Switch on Anti-Israel Vote]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/311808-obama-pulls-a-bait-and-switch-on-anti-israel-security</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration pulled a bait and switch in refusing to veto the recent Security Council resolution against Israel. In attempting to justify its abstention &ndash; which under Security Council rules has the same effect as a vote in favor &ndash; the administration focuses on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shimon Peres: A Leader for All Seasons]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/28/shimon-peres-leader-for-all-seasons/3vcjEEnDp0i6lBXajXsqiM/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SHIMON PERES has passed away and, with him, the last embodiment of Israel&rsquo;s great founding generation. When Peres and his family immigrated to British Mandate Palestine in 1934, Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany, and Europe was about to begin the most shameful chapter...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why It's Impossible to Predict This Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/13/why-impossible-predict-this-election/Y7B4N39FqasHzuiO81sWEO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reality is that polling is incapable of accurately predicting the outcome of elections like this one, where so many voters are angry, resentful, emotional, negative, and frightened.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel: A Tribute to Humanity's Teacher]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/07/03/tribute-humanity-teacher/x7crYDh94D6LJ2R2Vciw4J/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ELIE WIESEL was my teacher, my &ldquo;rabbi,&rdquo; my mentor, my colleague, and my dear friend. Over the past 50 years, we worked together on numerous human rights projects. Elie did more to bring the word &ldquo;human&rdquo; into human rights than any person in modern history. For him,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie's Illiberal Supporters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/alan-dershowitz-bernie-sanders-illiberal-supporters-article-1.2603151</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Safe Spaces for Hypocrisy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/alan-dershowitz-safe-spaces-hypocrisy-article-1.2442092</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the central demands repeated by protesters at campuses across the country has been for university administrators to transform campuses into &ldquo;safe spaces,&rdquo; where students are protected not only from physical violence but also from ideas that they find threatening or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama is Losing the Debate Over Iran Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/12/obama-deal-supporters-shouldn-stifle-debate/xZ8PEJNcnKOsN5smh4M7XL/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A great debate is underway regarding the nuclear agreement with Iran &mdash; and the Obama administration is losing. Unhappy with the growing opposition to his legacy deal, President Obama is trying to stifle the debate by attacking the personal motives and public-communication methods...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. Obama, Your Iran Deal Will Fall Apart]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/05/alan-dershowitz-iran-deal-treaty-column/31160415/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Framers of our constitution probably would have regarded the nuclear deal with Iran as a &ldquo;treaty,&rdquo; subject to a two thirds ratification by the Senate. At the very least they would have required Congress to approve the agreement by a majority vote. It is unlikely that it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Gave Away Better Options on Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/07/16/gave-away-better-options-iran/BoNP56bH6I43sAMwG3FplO/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most compelling argument the Obama administration is offering to boost what it acknowledges is a compromise nuclear deal with Iran is this: it&rsquo;s better than the alternatives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Baltimore Charges: Justice or Crowd Control?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2015/05/05/baltimore-charges-justice-crowd-control/SlIT89IGBNZb5E1STLSLjN/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Baltimore's state attorney Marilyn Mosby announced charges last week against six officers in the death of Freddie Gray and proclaimed to the city that &#194;&#147;I heard your call for &#194;&#145;no justice, no peace,&#194;&#146;&#194;&#148; it&#194;&#146;s possible that her decisions were based, at least in part, on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Nightmare of False Accusation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=Alan+Dershowitz:+A+Nightmare+of+False+Accusation+That+Could+Happen+to+You</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine the following situation: You&rsquo;re a 76-year-old man, happily married for nearly 30 years, with three children and two grandchildren. You&rsquo;ve recently retired after 50 years of teaching at Harvard Law School. You have an unblemished personal record, though your legal and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Case Against Boycotting SodaStream]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/12/19/dershowitz-sodastream-against-boycott/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ariel Sharon: A Man of His Times]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/man-times-article-1.1565839</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I met with Ariel Sharon only a few weeks before he suffered the disabling stroke that ended his career. He told me that having withdrawn Israeli troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip, he was now contemplating a withdrawal from some parts of the West Bank. This from a man who had...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zimmerman Prosecutor Should Be Disbarred]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/14/alan_dershowitz_zimmerman_special_prosecutor_angela_corey_should_be_disbarred.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Right, it is. She submitted an affidavit that was, if not perjurious, completely misleading. She violated all kinds of rules of the profession, and her conduct bordered on criminal conduct. She, by the way, has a horrible reputation in Florida. She's known for overcharging, she's known...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Prism Really a Scandal?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/09/is-prism-really-a-scandal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Half a century ago, the great American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote about &#194;&#147;the paranoid style in American politics.&#194;&#148; He discussed the influence of conspiracy theories and extremism in our collective mindset.Since that time, two phenomena have become apparent. The first is that we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drop Murder Charge Against Zimmerman]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/drop-george-zimmerman-murder-charge-article-1.1080161</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A medical report by George Zimmerman&rsquo;s doctor has disclosed that Zimmerman had a fractured nose, two black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head and a back injury on the day after the fatal shooting. If this evidence turns out to be valid, the prosecutor will have no choice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zimmerman May Be Indicted, Then Acquitted]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/10/opinion/dershowitz-trayvon-prosecutor-nightmare/index.html?hpt=op_r1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the basis of the evidence currently in the public record, one likely outcome of the case against George Zimmerman is a mixed one: There may be sufficient evidence for a reasonable prosecutor to indict him for manslaughter, but there may also be doubt sufficient for a reasonable jury...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Matters Slurs American Jews]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/odious-israel-libel-article-1.1028212?print</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s the kind of virulent hate speech you&rsquo;d expect to find on a neo-Nazi website or in a Patrick Buchanan column: American Jews who support current Israeli policies are accused of dual loyalty and called &ldquo;Israel firsters.&rdquo;AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Casey Anthony: The System Worked]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303544604576429783247016492.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA['This case [is] about seeking justice for Caylee . . ." So argued the prosecutor in the Casey Anthony murder case. He was wrong, and the jury understood that.A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. That's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Mideast Strategy Backfires]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/05/27/2011-05-27_president_obama_has_right_goals_on_israelipalestinian_peace_but_strategy_already.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back in Israel and President Obama is traveling around Europe, it is time to assess the effect their dueling speeches have had on the prospects for peace.There is one factual conclusion on which the Israelis and the  Palestinians completely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel: An Honorable Warrior]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24866318-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
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		ISRAEL's actions in Gaza are justified under international law, and Israel should be commended for its self-defence against terrorism. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel, Hamas, &amp; Moral Idiocy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1231/p09s02-coop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Both Obama &amp; McCain Are Friends of Israel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/10/12/2008-10-12_both_barack_obama_and_john_mccain_are_tr-2.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan M. Dershowitz</author>
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