First Short Quiz – Forward & Intro + Overview

[johnkarls]

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It is respectfully suggested that you make a list of your own questions that are provoked by “The Protective State" – since all of us are unique and your questions are worth discussing also!!!



1. Was the 8-page Forward (pp. xi – xviii) written by Stephen Breyer? With no bio included for Stephen Breyer, are we presumed to know who he was?

2. Was Stephen Breyer an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1994-2022?

3. Can we also presume that he and Alan Dershowitz are long-time good friends since –

• Although Alan Dershowitz graduated first in his Yale Law School class of 1962, did he clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg while Stephen Breyer graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964 following which he also clerked for Arthur Goldberg? Do Supreme Court clerks for a particular Justice tend to have similar backgrounds and join a de facto “club” comprising that Justice’s clerks from over the years?

• Did Alan Dershowitz then teach at Harvard Law School 1964-2013 where he was joined by Stephen Breyer who taught at Harvard Law School 1967-1980?

• So is it any surprise that Stephen Breyer wrote the Forward for Alan Dershowitz’ newest book?

4. Does Stephen Breyer’s Forward appear to be a detailed summary of “The Preventive State”? Suggesting that the book is a wide-ranging analysis of zillions of different applications of the central issue of preventing future harm? While never mentioning that it has anything to do with Iran’s nuclear-weapons program?

5. How do we square this with Alan Dershowitz’ own description of the book –

“The thesis of the book is that you cannot wait for Iran to develop nuclear weapons and try to deter it. You don’t deter people who want to die…..Israel cannot depend on deterrence. It cannot deter or kind of control a nuclear enemy. It has to prevent the enemy from getting nuclear bombs.”

[Please see the third section of the Original Topic Proposal entitled “Author Prof. Dershowitz' Own Book Description In 4/27/2025 Interview With Mark Levin” at viewtopic.php?f=853&t=2652&sid=e9c7698a ... 65b786b34a.]

6. So yes, don’t Chapters 2-12 (just like Stephen Breyer said in the Forward) deal with 11 different areas in which The Preventive State attempts to avoid harm with preventive action???

7. But if Alan Dershowitz is correct that the thesis of his book is --

“…..you cannot wait for Iran to develop nuclear weapons and try to deter it. You don’t deter people who want to die…..Israel cannot depend on deterrence. It cannot deter or kind of control a nuclear enemy. It has to prevent the enemy from getting nuclear bombs.” --

then why confuse readers with all this analysis of situations that are irrelevant to his thesis???

8. After all, hasn’t Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei since succeeding Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, relished frequently leading crowds in chants of “Death to Israel” AND EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY “DEATH TO THE GREAT SATAN” (i.e., the United States)???

9. And don’t Iran’s frequent tests of INTERCONTINENTAL-ballistic-missiles (which tests were OK’d by Obama’s 2015 Nuclear Agreement, aka JCPOA) feature ICBM’s with “DEATH TO THE GREAT SATAN” painted on their sides???

10. And aren’t INTERCONTINENTAL-ballistic-missiles INTENDED SOLELY FOR THE UNITED STATES since Israel is only 600 miles from Iran???

11. And doesn’t Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regularly preach (as did Osama bin Laden and many other Islamic religious leaders) that Islamic martyrs and 72 close relatives by-pass a truly-fearsome Judgment Day when they would otherwise be prosecuted by Avenging Angels – and proceed on their deaths directly to Heaven???

12. And isn’t this why until the videos were apparently banned in the U.S. as being inflammatory, those videos typically showed that when Muslim children were killed by Israeli Defense Forces whom the children were attacking -- the relatives of those child martyrs would be seen rejoicing rather than mourning???

13. So why shouldn’t we believe Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he wants INTERCONTINENTAL-ballistic-missiles in order to KILL THE GREAT SATAN???

14. And dis-believe all his nonsense about his massive nuclear-weapons program being designed to provide nuclear power for Iran – for which only a fraction of the nuclear fuel would be required, for which only a tiny fraction of the enrichment that Iran is endowing its nuclear material is needed, and for which every other non-nuclear nation wanting nuclear energy for domestic-power, obtains the small quantities of barely-enriched nuclear fuel from other countries???

15. Isn’t President Trump delusional in believing he can negotiate with Iran and talk them out of INTERCONTINENTAL-ballistic-missiles and talk them out of any enrichment of nuclear fuel???

16. Even if President Trump is trying to show “he walked the extra mile” with Iran before taking out their ICBM & nuclear programs militarily (or permitting Israel to do so), isn’t such a public-relations campaign itself delusional because Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will never permit the Iranian media to permit Iranian citizens to know that the United States “walked the extra mile”???

17. And isn’t the same true vis-à-vis any other nations that are not friendly to the United States???

18. Wouldn’t it be tragic if President Trump’s public-relations campaign vis-à-vis Iran is really aimed at mollifying university professors and their easily-misled college students???

19. After all, aren’t such professors and students GUILTY of believing and preaching THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE???

20. Doesn’t THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE claim that United Nations Resolution 181 of 11/29/1947 “stole” Palestinian land and gave it to the survivors of Hitler’s Holocaust because European nations (most of the UN’s current 193 members were still European colonies in 1947) did not want their Jewish survivors to return to their European homes (the last Nazi concentration camps did NOT close until 1951 – same camps but new management which, at least, turned off the ovens)???

21. Isn’t the truth that prior to World War I, the Ottoman Empire (which owned Palestine and the rest of the Middle East for 600 years prior to WW-I) had a policy that EVERYONE, regardless of religion or ethnicity, was welcome to purchase land anywhere in the Ottoman Empire, including Palestine???

22. And didn’t many Jews purchase land in Palestine IAW the policy of the Ottoman Empire???

23. So isn’t the truth that when the United Nations decided in the wake of World War II to terminate Britain’s Palestine “Protectorate” (a sanitary name for their COLONY resulting from their defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, courtesy of Lawrence of Arabia) it created on 5/15/1947 the United Nations Special Committee On Palestine (aka UNSCOP) whose marching orders were to tabulate who owned what??? And that no major powers were members of UNSCOP???

24. And based on UNSCOP’s report of land ownership, United Nations Resolution 181 of 11/29/1947 declared that Britan’s Palestine “Protectorate” would terminate at midnight on 5/14/1948 TO BE SUCCEEDED BY AN ARAB STATE AND A JEWISH STATE BASED ON LAND OWNERSHIP – EVEN THOUGH EACH OF THE TWO COUNTRIES WOULD RESEMBLE UNCONNECTED SQUARES OF A CHEKERBOARD???

25. BTW, didn’t UNSCOP ascertain that there were only 1,077,000 Muslims out of a total population of 1,846,000 – or 58.3%??? Which reflected virtually no Jewish immigration during the British occupation 1918-1947 since the Brits were more interested in Arab crude oil than the survivors of Hitler’s Holocaust???

26. Didn’t Israel accept Resolution 181 on the basis of which it declared its independence on 5/14/1948 – and was immediately invaded by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon???

27. Wasn’t the 1947 War for Independence the first of 4-5 FAILED “Two State Solutions” over the last 78 years???

28. And when those university professors coach their students to chant “From the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea, Palestine Will Be ‘Free’” – aren’t they calling for the perennial goal of Palestinians to THROW ISREALIS INTO THE SEA WITHOUT EVEN REIMBURSING THE ISRAELIS FOR WHAT THEIR ANCESTORS PAID THE PALESTINIANS’ ANCESTORS FOR THE LAND???

29. Are the university professors and their students GUILTY of defamatory “HATE SPEECH”???

30. Should they be prosecuted???

31. Do “HATE CRIMES” such as “HATE SPEECH” comprise “Free Speech” or, as every first-year law student learns, are there numerous exceptions to “free speech” such as NOT being permitted to shout “fire” in a crowded theater??? Much less than “incitement to riot”???

32. BTW, is Yours Truly NOT Jewish (four German Protestant grandparents who immigrated in the 1800’s) but is nevertheless appalled at what THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE is doing – particularly in the hands of IGNORANT profs???!!!