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"Alan Dershowitz: World obsessed with Israel:"
Harvard professor says six million additional people have died since WWII because of obsessive focus on Israel.
The international community's obsessive focus on the State of Israel caused it to miss out on genocides all around the world, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz told a rally in a Toronto synagogue last week, according to a report in the Canadian Jewish News .
"Six million additional people have died since the end of the Second World War because of this obsessive focus on Israel," Dershowitz was quoted as saying, citing global inaction over the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and the slaughter currently taking place in Darfur.
He added that Iran 's denial of the Holocaust was aimed at de-legitimizing Israel, demonizing Jews and, legitimatizing attacks on Israel and attacks on Jews.
The rally was organized by Canadian Jewish community organizations, and included Holocaust survivors, a Catholic priest, and the Canadian minister of intergovernmental affairs, who received an ovation after blasting anti-Israel bias among Canadian members of parliament.
By the way, Prof. Dershowitz is blogging about Jimmy Carter's stance on Israel on Gather.com. You can join his group here: http://alandershowitz.gather.com/
The site has a fair amount of anti-Israeli sentiment, so some sane voices would be welcomed.