case for israel it's by alan dershowitz who is one of the nation's foremost appellate lawyers felix frankfurter professor of law at harvard law school and why don't we start with you laying out the thesis of your latest book the case for israel well i want to write a progressive liberal case for the two state solution which i think that most israelis favor and have favored for a long time i argue in the book that no country in history faced with comparable threats both external and internal has ever tried so hard to comply with the rule of law i compare israel favorably to the united states in this regard norman finkelstein your response i was asked to comment in the sky whose new book i went home purchased one copy in fact i purchased two copies i read the book very carefully i did with what someone serious does. with the book. i read the text i went through the footnotes and went through it very carefully there's only one conclusion one can reach having read the book and this is a scholarly judgment it's not an ad hominum attack mr dershowitz has concocted a fraud. my parents were survivors o

douglas, earlier on felix frankfurter, john harlan, these were supposed to be the intellectual giants of the court, and william brennan was just this guy from new jersey that nobody had ever really heard of and had no particular reputation. it really wasn't until later that we learned what an incredible influence he had behind the scenes in the warren court and continued to have in subsequent years. and i think the book documents that, and i hope that's one of the values of the book and certainly was one of the great values of the access to all of the papers and to his being willing to talk about what went on. one of the great revelations he told me and i asked other people around the court for different periods of time about this was that earl warren would come in and have private meetings with brennan to talk about how to decide the cases and to whom to assign opinions and so on. i don't think even other members of the court knew that those meetings were taking place, and i know that the law clerks to other justices didn't know that those meetings were taking place. so there was thi