{"id":1183,"date":"2005-12-02T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2009-01-08T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T21:49:17","slug":"hope-in-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Hope in Disarray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Dershowitz opens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.harvard.edu\/events_forum_archive.html\">this Harvard debate<\/a> with Noam Chomsky by gaslighting Arafat for turning down Bill Clinton&#8217;s generous Camp David offer.  Small wonder his latest book earned kudos from Clinton and Dennis Ross.  I can&#8217;t think of <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1016\">a pair<\/a> better fitting Dershowitz&#8217; lament of that which is &#8220;doubly destructive to those who must make peace on the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence of Cyberia has returned from hiatus and while not written intentionally to do so <a href=\"http:\/\/lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com\/news\/2005\/11\/gaza_for_jerusa.html\">this is a sobering counter to the &#8220;ray of hope&#8221; for peace seen by the debate moderator<\/a>.  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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Dershowitz opens this Harvard debate with Noam Chomsky by gaslighting Arafat for turning down Bill Clinton&#8217;s generous Camp David offer. Small wonder his latest book earned kudos from Clinton and Dennis Ross. I can&#8217;t think of a pair better &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1183\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-j5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}