It was neck and neck there for awhile. Appearing together on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on September 12, Zbigniew Brzezinski and James Baker competed ferociously to see who could pile up the largest number of anti-Israel cliches and moral-equivalence fallacies in the briefest amount of time. Normally, Baker is unbeatable at this sort of thing, but suddenly, heading down the stretch, Brzezinski pulled ahead and cruised to victory.
Benjamin Netanyahu's "concept of peace," Brzezinski said, "is essentially a very close equivalent of what the white supremacist apartheid government in South Africa was proposing at one point for the Africans a series of isolated lands, broken up, not contiguous territory, essentially living in backward villages, surrounded by white islands of prosperity. This is the Likud image of a solution for the Palestinian problem."
Baker looked slightly stunned at this masterly display of what is, in truth, his own specialty of Israel-bashing. All he could say was, "I think Zbig was right on.
. . ." THE SCRAPBOOK thinks they should both be ashamed of themselves.