I mean, I just don't get it. Why does he do stuff like this:

3. Chomsky claimed that Egypt offered Israel a genuine "full peace" in 1971, which Israel rejected and to which it responded with belligerencies, ultimately causing the 1973 war. (It didn't.)

4. Chomsky claimed that Arafat agreed to the Clinton Parameters. (Israel accepted; Arafat refused.)

5. Chomsky said that "[b]oth sides, of course, rejected Resolution 242." (Do I even have to say that Israel accepted, while Arab nations and Palestinian organizations unanimously rejected 242?)

6. Chomsky claimed that he had not, only a moment earlier, claimed that Cuba has a better human rights record that Israel. (Dershowitz challenged Chomsky to name a single country, facing similar external or terrorist threats, that maintained greater devotion to the rule of law and human rights. Chomsky named Nicaragua and Cuba.)

And, of course this one:

On at least three occasions Chomsky made the especially bizarre claim that he has supported a two-state solution since the early '70s, while Dershowitz has only recently and grudgingly accepted Palestinians' right to self-determination. (Dershowitz and Chomsky debated in 1973 on this very issue. Dershowitz advocated a two-state solution. Chomsky railed against there being a Jewish state, arguing in favor of a single-state modeled after Lebanon and Yugoslavia. In his writings, Chomsky has made the exact same argument.)

I mean, what's with the pathological lying? And the reflexive hatred of Israel?

What motivates a guy, who's got this much going for him intellectually, to be so persistently dishonest? I mean this seriously. Why lie about stuff like this? What profit is there in it? What's going through his mind when he makes up phony citations, claiming to get his "facts" from sources which say no such thing? Or when he makes up claims which have no backing whatsoever, as he did regarding starvation in Afgahnistan? And, intellectually, living in the real world as Chomsky seems to, how do you endorse a book by Holocaust deniers?

Is he on someone's payroll? Does it do it because he wants to be lauded by the crowd, and he knows that anti-semitism sells in some circles today, just as it did in Nazi Germany? Is that part of the reason he sees his opponents as Nazis, despite being one of the primary voices fueling and catering to antisemitism today? Does he some have bizarre hangup with his own Jewish identity?

I'm sorry, I just have a problem with lies. Not just the fantastic, self-aggrandizing imaginings of a guy like John Kerry, who dreams that world leaders meet with him, dreams that he's a CIA spy running guns to the... Khemer Rouge? (Yes, the CIA was big on communism back then.) ... and then says the truth, as he imagines it, anyway.

No, this is a guy who must know what he's doing.

Why?