Glenn Beck had world famous attorney Alan Dershowitz on Thursday night to discuss Jimmy Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid”. To say that Mr. Dershowitz shredded the book on multiple levels is totally accurate. It didn’t take long for the dissection to begin:

BECK: Why would you do that?
DERSHOWITZ: Well, I think he really wants to get publicity for his anti-Israel approach. Look, the most extreme thing he does is, we all know that Israel offered the Palestinians a state in 2000-2001, 95 percent of the West Bank and 100 percent of the Gaza. Bill Clinton said that and he said Arafat turned it down. Dennis Ross, our man there said that. Prince Bandar, the prince in Saudi Arabia, said that. Only Yasser Arafat disagreed and said no, no, no, it was really the Israelis who turned it down. Jimmy Carter chooses to believe Yasser Arafat over Bill Clinton and all the Americans. If I were Bill Clinton, I would be livid. I suspect Bill Clinton is livid. He’s being called a liar by Jimmy Carter, and yet Bill Clinton has not spoken up.

It doesn’t take a genius to see what Carter refuses to admit: that Yasser Arafat wanted nothing to do with signing a peace agreement with Israel. Only in Carter’s world of delusion could someone think that Arafat was ever a trustworthy negotiating partner.

Dershowitz is undeniably liberal, a man that most conservatives wouldn’t agree with on much other than Israel. That said, Dershowitz gets it when it comes to Israel and he isn’t willing to stay silent when another liberal talks stupidity and delusion about Israel-Palestine.

Here’s another shot at Carter:

DERSHOWITZ: He will not sit down on a one-on-one on television or on the radio and have a discussion with me or anyone else who knows the facts. He insists going at it alone, and he is conveying misinformation, ahistorical facts to American audiences on every television show in America.
I challenge Jimmy Carter, my old friend, somebody who I supported, to sit down with me on any television school, at the Kennedy School, anywhere, and discuss in a rational way these issues. And I will show how wrong he is historically and how wrong he is in his assessment of this situation.

The last thing that Jimmy Carter wants to do at this point is sit down with anyone who would slice and dice him, which Dershowitz certainly would do. The reason why Dershowitz would dissect Carter’s assertions is because Carter doesn’t have the facts on his side. I can picture a Carter-Dershowitz debate, with Carter making one false statement after another. When Dershowitz finally has had enough, he’d go into Reagan mode, saying “There you go again” before ripping Carter to shreds with his reply.

BECK: Yes, you can’t. Now, let me go back to Jimmy Carter. I want to focus on him for a second. It seems to me, and you know, I know you voted for him. I’m sure you voted for him. I wouldn’t have. I mean, I think he was a horrible president. But it goes beyond just being wrong, in my opinion. He seems to look for the, he seems to look for the worst in us, or not believe the best in us but believe the best in these horrible dictators and thugs.
DERSHOWITZ: You’re absolutely right about that. He loved Yasser Arafat. He bounces his baby on his knees. He loved Assad, a dictator who killed 10,000 of his own people, and he couldn’t stand Golda Meir. And he lectures Golda Meir, saying Israel isn’t religious enough. It should be more religious. Imagine how critical he’d be if Israel were more religious?
He can’t stand Begin. There are two or three Israelis he likes, Israelis who agree with him. But he seems to love every Palestinian, every Arab. He doesn’t have it in his heart to condemn Hamas. He thinks Hamas would really recognize Israel eventually. He sees the bad and the worst in everything America does and everything Israel does, and he sees only the best in everything the Palestinians and the Arabs do. At bottom, this is a deeply, deeply anti-American book as well as an anti-Israel book.

OUCH. That’s taking a harsh shot at Carter. The thing is that it’s totally accurate. It’s also sad to think that a former president is capable of such delusion and intellectual dishonesty. I’ve said before that Jimmy Carter is both the worst president in American history and the worst ex-president in American history. Based on the excerpts from his latest literary work, I see no reason to change my mind.

Carter’s frenzied pursuit of a positive legacy is the work of a desparate, small man.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

1. You would think that most liberals would oppose militant Islamist sand Nazis much more than they oppose American conservatives.

   Comment by Michael Ejercito — December 8, 2006 @ 10:48 am