Since the breakout of the latest crisis in the Middle East, the mainstream media has been at it again with their stream of short debates and/or grilling sessions. Although I find these entertaining, they usually leave me wanting.

That’s way I was pleasantly surprised last night to see this debate on Larry King’s show.

It featured James Zogby, head of the Arab American Institute, and good ol’ Alan Dershowitz, of Harvard Law School and Michigan Israel Observer fame.

Dershowitz hands Zogby a pretty clear defeat. While Zogby dances around the idea of terrorism and Hezbollah’s goals, Dershowitz goes straight at it and completely accepts and acknowledges all the civilian deaths on both sides, but provides the philosophical underpinning that shows Hezbollah is to blame. I wish they would’ve gone on for hours, although Zogby’s patronizing wagging of his head really irritated me–as did his ad hominem about Dershowitz being a lawyer who gets guilty people off the hook.

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