Alan Dershowitz opens this Harvard debate with Noam Chomsky by gaslighting Arafat for turning down Bill Clinton’s generous Camp David offer. Small wonder his latest book earned kudos from Clinton and Dennis Ross. I can’t think of a pair better fitting Dershowitz’ lament of that which is “doubly destructive to those who must make peace on the ground.”
Lawrence of Cyberia has returned from hiatus and while not written intentionally to do so this is a sobering counter to the “ray of hope” for peace seen by the debate moderator. The issue of Jerusalem was inexcusably bungled by the Clinton negotiators, a crew more concerned with their own egos than the process at hand. Their campaign to place the blame for their own failures at Arafat’s feet figured decisively in the start of the al-Aqsa Intifada. Shameless, that Dershowitz the scholar would lean so heavily upon Ross and Clinton as exemplary sources and that Harvard would waste valuable time giving forum to such nonsense.
I was more impressed that they invited somebody who didn’t just spew nonsense. Did you hear that crowd? Do they teach people to think at that school? In a cloud of smoke D up and cedes his whole position to NC and the crowd keeps whooping for more blood, “answer the question!” As though D didn’t just endorse Chomsky’s answer.
Maybe they were the research assistants that write his books. There must be scores of them by now.