Dershowitz has never done anything in his life that even remotely comes close to āhelp bring about peace in the Middle East.ā
He claims that Arthur Goldberg consulted with him during the authoring of UN 242, though thereās no reason to believe he contributed anything meaningful (in fact when Finkelstein pressed him, he couldnāt even recall the fucking name of the British Ambassador that co-authored it).
It really doesnāt help that his other ācontributionsā include plagiarizing large chunks of Joan Petersā fraudulent From Time Immemorial, yet he points to that book as a significant stemp to peace.
How?
When he wasnāt stealing from a hoax and when he wasnāt reflexively blaming the Palestinians for everything, he was also falsifying Israelās human rights record in the Occupied Territories. The truth is that not only has what Dershowitz done throughout his career not at all conducive to peace in the Middle East, what little he has done has been extremely harmful and counterproductive to those ends.
He asserts Larryās jokes as being ābad,ā as if that were a matter of fact, and itās simply not.
He uses the word āwhileā as if the timing of those two things go together. Larry Davidās career spans from 1980 to now. So even if weāre to grant his premise that he āhad inputā in 242, he canāt use that because that was in 1967 when Larry was working on his bachelors in history at Maryland.
So Alan wasnāt really involved in ātrying to bring peace in the Middle Eastā at any point in his life, Larry David can hardly be accused of writing bad jokes, and even if he could, he certainly wasnāt doing it in 1967. Plus, everything Dershowitz has done since 1967 has been to produce self-serving and insipid drivel (that real academics tear apart on the regular) while Larry David had been writing award-winning TV shows.
Thatās at least 5 lies in 17 words. Par for the course for Ole Al.