Dershowitz and Bolton

December 17th, 2006 at 22:03 Björn Hallberg

Now there is a thought that will give you nightmares for years to come. (Metafilter)

The outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is backing a call for the president of Iran to be charged with inciting genocide because of his speeches advocating the destruction of the state of Israel.

Mr Bolton will be joined in tomorrow’s launch of the legal action against Mr Ahmadinejad by a Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, and the former Israeli ambassador to the UN, Dore Gold, together with experts from the US, Canada and Israel. A suit will be lodged with the international court of justice at The Hague, which will decide whether to hear the action. The panel said the Iranian president was guilty of inciting genocide “by making numerous threats against the United States, calling for the destruction of Israel and instigating discrimination against Christians and Jews”. His words violate a 1948 UN genocide convention, to which Iran is a signatory, they said.

And if the nightmares don’t get you, the logical inconsistencies, sheer stupidity, lies and hypocrisy probably will blow your mind. At least Bolton is suddenly a fan of the ICJ, right? And Dershowitz found a human rights violation (though imaginary) that he didn’t like.

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