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Beinart and Dershowitz Debate the Crisis of Zionism

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The Graduate Center, CUNY

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Partner:: CUNY
Location:: The Graduate School, CUNY
New York, NY
Event Date:: 10.15.12
Speakers:: Peter Beinart,; Alan Dershowitz
Tags:: israel; palestine; iran; nuclear proliferation; nuclear enrichment; protection

Summary: Alan Dershowitz debates with Peter Beinart on the topic of Beinart's recent book, The Crisis of Zionism. Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He has also published more than 100 articles in magazines and journals such as the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, Commentary, The Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal, and more than 300 of his articles have appeared in syndication in 50 national daily newspapers. He is the author of 27 fiction and non-fiction books, including The Case for Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza. In 1983, the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith presented Dershowitz with the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award for his civil and human rights work. Peter Beinart is a senior political writer for the Daily Beast, where he edits the blog "Open Zion," which aims to foster a frank and open conversation about Israel, Palestine, and the Jewish future. A faculty member at CUNY's Graduate Center and Graduate School of Journalism, his latest book is The Crisis of Zionism. The Graduate Center's Perspectives series with Peter Beinart features dynamic thinkers and practitioners examining the pressing political and public policy issues shaping our world. Previous participants have included Christopher Hitchens, Tina Brown, Andrew Sullivan, and Paul Krugman.

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Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart is an American journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast website. Beinart worked at The New Republic until 2006, for much of the time writing The New Republic's signature "TRB" column, which was reprinted in the New York Post and other major American newspapers.

From 2007 to 2009, Beinart was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Beinart is the author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals, and Only Liberals, Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, and The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.

Alan Dershowitz

Criminal law and constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz is author of Preemption, The Case for Israel and Why Terrorism Works, among other books. He is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

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01 hr 19 min 33 sec

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01.: Introduction

03 min 24 sec

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02.: Peter Beinart's Opening Remarks

01 min 04 sec

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03.: The Zionist Dream and Israel

03 min 09 sec

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04.: Israel's Control of the West Bank

04 min 09 sec

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05.: The Israeli Government and the Palestinian Statehood Bid

05 min 01 sec

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06.: Alan Dershowitz's Opening Remarks

02 min 13 sec

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07.: Alan Dershowitz's Agreement with Peter Beinart

04 min 47 sec

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08.: Disagreement on the Power and Threat of Iran

03 min 25 sec

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09.: Reaction to Israeli Divestment and the Protest of Israeli Actions

03 min 15 sec

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10.: Fundamental Disagreement on the State of Israel

04 min 13 sec

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11.: Dershowitz on Palestine and Abbas Strategy

05 min 01 sec

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12.: Beinart on the Threat of Iran

04 min 39 sec

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13.: Debating Iran and International Response to Threat

07 min 44 sec

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14.: Making the Case for Tough Diplomacy Against Iran and the Role of the US

05 min 10 sec

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15.: Israel's Red Lines and Possible Military Action Against Iran

15 min 36 sec

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16.: Peter Beinart's Concluding Remarks

03 min 24 sec

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17.: Alan Dershowitz's Concluding Remarks

03 min 20 sec

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Beinart vs. Dershowitz: Attack Iran Nuclear Sites Now?

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Peter Beinart, former editor of the New Republic, and Alan Dershowitz, famed lawyer and political commentator, debate the consequences of Israel preemptively attacking Iran's nuclear proliferation programs. Citing Israel's attack on Iraq as an example, Dershowitz argues that a strike would set back Iran's nuclear aspirations years. Beinart counters that an attack would galvanize Iran to develop their nuclear program.
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