CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, W MIGHT GIVE IT TO YOU (via Jim in Chicago):

Dershowitz and Chomsky battle it out (MATT RAND, Nov. 30, 2005, THE JERUSALEM POST)

Two noted academics offered vastly different views on the history and path forward in the Arab-Israeli conflict recently as Alan Dershowitz and Noam Chomsky debated each other at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. [...]

Chomsky alleged that, in 1976, Israel rejected outright a peace offer by Arab states. He said Israel missed a later opportunity when, in 1988, the PLO went from "tacit approval to formal acceptance of the two state solution." [...]

Chomsky said ultimately the United States was to blame. "The [settlements] will continue as long as Washington insists on marching along the road to catastrophe…by rejecting minimal Palestinian rights. And if that march to catastrophe continues, we will only have ourselves to blame," Chomsky said.

So shouldn't Mr. Chomsky support the Bush position, which imposes a sovereign state of Palestine on both sides? If we get the blame for opposing that solution in the past, don't we credit for causing it now?

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 1, 2005 10:54 AM