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Don't 'Blackmail' Israel Into Peace Talks Over Iran: Dershowitz

Deal with nukes, then engage with Palestine

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted May 9, 2009 7:01 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Clip Iran's nuclear claws first, then press for peace between Israel and Palestine—not the other way around, Alan Dershowitz argues in the New York Post. Reacting to a recent report, Dershowitz says Rahm Emanuel has it backward in putting Israeli-Palestinian talks before negotiations that could denuclearize Iran. "The threat from a nuclear Iran is existential and immediate for Israel" and is "a first priority," he writes.

"It will be far easier for Israel to make peace with the Palestinians if it did not have to worry about the threat of a nuclear attack or a dirty bomb," the Harvard Law School professor argues. "It will also be easier for Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank if Iran were not arming and inciting Hamas, Hezbollah and other enemies of Israel to terrorize Israel with rockets and suicide bombers."

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz addresses an audience at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., in this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz addresses an audience at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., in this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007.   (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, center, is led away in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, April 19, 2009.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, center, is led away in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, April 19, 2009.   (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, Pool)
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, center, is led away in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, April 19, 2009.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, center, is led away in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, April 19, 2009.   (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, Pool)
Attorney Alan Dershowitz attends Universal Pictures' premiere of 'The Inside Man' at the Ziegfeld Theater March 20, 2006 in New York City.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz attends Universal Pictures' premiere of 'The Inside Man' at the Ziegfeld Theater March 20, 2006 in New York City.   (Getty Images)
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wwwonderer
May 11, 2009 6:15 AM CDT
I can't speak for TC, but what I got from his statement was that while certain entities may be good ideas and necessary, it is the corruption that is fostered by these elements. Workers rights are definitely a serious concern, until those same labor unions become greedy and corrupt. An Israeli state seemed like a necessity and fair in '47, now it seems like there is a massive land-grab being conducted by Israel.
nick
May 11, 2009 1:54 AM CDT
Opinion reporting. Is this news?
kokuaguy
May 10, 2009 5:53 AM CDT
TC--you really lost me with that one. An Israeii state living peaceably with a Palestinian state still makes sense. Likewise, allowing labor to bargain collectively with management preserved capitalism in the 1930s.

 
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