Prime Minister Netanyahu Lauds Alan Dershowitz's New Book Terror Tunnels
NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's new e-book, published this Monday, September 15, is creating an international stir. Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas (Gatestone Institute with Rosetta Books) received immediate high praise from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
"The recent operation in Gaza demonstrated once again the lengths to which Hamas terrorists will go to murder innocent Israeli civilians. Not satisfied with suicide bombings and rocket attacks on Israeli cities, Hamas built an extensive network of terror tunnels for the purpose of dispatching death squads into Israel. In Terror Tunnels, Alan Dershowitz has focused his internationally recognized expertise and clarity of vision on addressing this evolving terrorist tactic. Dershowitz's conclusion is unequivocal: Israel has both the right and the obligation to defend itself against subterranean terrorist attacks."
According to Dershowitz, the book isn't only about the Gaza War, but also about ISIS, which he calls "America's Hamas." Dershowitz says that Israel provides a model for all who are threatened by terrorist groups—such as ISIS, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram.
"President Obama's threats against ISIS are indistinguishable from the threats made by Prime Minister Netanyahu against Hamas. The United States is following Israel's lead in going after terrorists who threaten their citizens wherever these terrorists may be. We are using targeted killing of ISIS leaders and other tactics for which Israel has been criticized by some of the very countries that are part of the American coalition."
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Professor Alan M. Dershowitz. the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, was described by Newsweek as "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights; The Forward named him "Israel's single most visible defender—the Jewish state's lead attorney in the court of public opinion."
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