All Sides In A Trial Want To

It Simply Cannot Be Disputed That For Decades The Palestinian Leadership Was More Interested In There Not Being A Jewish State Than In There Being A Palestinian State.

I Have Made A Career Out Of Arguing That We Shouldn't Be Criminalizing Political Differences. I've Made A Career Out Of Arguing That The Grand Jury Is An Abusive Institution. I Have Made A Career Out Of Arguing That We Shouldn't Stretch And Expand The Criminal Law. I'm Not Going To Change It Because You Think These Are Abnormal Times. When Thomas Jefferson Told The Justice Department That They Had To Prosecute Aaron Burr, And That He Was Going To Have The Chief Justice Impeached Unless He Found Aaron Burr Guilty, Those Were Special Times Too.

I Read In The Newspaper That The Catholic Church Finally Decided That It Had Been Theologically Improper To Try To Convert The Jews. Whoops! Sorry For All Those Inquisitions, Crusades, And Autos-da-fe. Previous Popes Were Wrong - Infallible, Perhaps, But Wrong.

The Threat Of Mutually Assured Destruction Worked For The United States During The Cold War Because It Had Proved Its Willingness To Drop Nuclear Bombs On Enemy Cities At The End Of World War Ii. It Might Work Less Well For Israel, Because The Israeli Air Force Has Never Deliberately Targeted A Large Civilian Population Center, And Its Leaders Have Said Its Morality Would Not Permit It Do So.

I Have Always Considered "pascal's Wager" A Questionable Bet To Place. Any God Worth "believing In" Would Surely Prefer An Honest Agnostic To A Calculating Hypocrite.