Corus Radio Network | 07Jan2009 | Orest Slepokura
To Charles
Adler, on the Corus Radio Network:
RE: Dersh dishing the dirt
When Professor Allan Dershowitz (on your program today) stoops to smearing Robert
Fisk, who had included several chapters in his book Pity the Nation
documenting the Nazi Holocaust, as a "neo-Nazi," it's a telltale sign
the Harvard prof is in a truly frantic state of mind in order to have
to fall back on such a crude ad hominem. By contrast,
we have here a rational, scientific study that examines
facts in CSI fashion and avoids any smear-mongering; it
does not need to. Quote:
"[Overwhelmingly, it is] Israel that kills first after a pause in the conflict: 79% of
all conflict pauses were interrupted when Israel killed a Palestinian,
while only 8% were interrupted by Palestinian attacks (the remaining
13% were interrupted by both sides on the same day). In addition, we
found that this pattern -- in which Israel is more likely than
Palestine to kill first after a conflict pause -- becomes more
pronounced for longer conflict pauses. Indeed, of the 25 periods of
nonviolence lasting longer than a week, Israel unilaterally interrupted
24, or 96%, and it unilaterally interrupted 100% of the 14 periods of
nonviolence lasting longer than 9 days."
- Nancy Kanwisher, Johannes
Haushofer, & Anat Biletzki - "Reigniting Violence: How do
Cease-fires end?"
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-kanwisher/reigniting-violence-how-d_b_155611.html
- January 06/09.
Kindest
regards (Look, Ma! No ad hominem!),
Orest Slepokura