(IsraelNN.com) Prominent Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz - who endorsed Barack Obama for U.S. President last year, partially because of his support for Israel - now says Obama’s policies are dangerous for Israel.
His opinions appear in a recent Jerusalem Post blog as well as in an article for the New York Post.In his blog published last week, Dershowitz wrote that while Obama feels a "two-state solution" paves the way towards dealing with Iran, the opposite is actually true, and that strong American action towards Iran is a prerequisite for Israel to make major concessions to the Palestinian Authority.There are other ways of encouraging Israel to make peace with the Palestinians. Nuclear blackmail is not one of them. “President Obama sees ‘a linkage’ between Israel ending the settlements and the United States trying to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons,” Dershowitz wrote.
“Following the Oval Office meeting [with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ed.], he insisted that peace between Israel and the Palestinians ‘strengthens our hand in the international community in dealing with a potential Iranian threat.’ With due respect to the man who I supported for President, he has it exactly backwards. If there is to be any linkage - and I do not believe there should be - it goes the other way: it will be much easier for Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank if Iran does not have a nuclear umbrella under which it can continue to encourage Hamas and Hizbullah to fire rockets at Israeli civilians.”
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