Iran is behind this week's attack by Hezbollah along Israel's border with Lebanon, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who appeared Wednesday on
Newsmax TV's "America's Forum."
The attack, which consisted of two explosive devices, wounded two Israeli soldiers,
The Wall Street Journal reported.
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"Iran again is trying to be provocative," he said. "Hezbollah does nothing without Iran. It's simply a puppet of Iran."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is correct, according to Dershowitz, in saying that Israel cannot, under any circumstances, allow Iran to have the capability to develop nuclear weapons, something that is a real possibility if the U.S. strikes a "bad deal" with Iran.
"If the United States makes a bad deal with Iran, and it looks like it's on the road possibly to making a bad deal, a bad deal that allows them to spin their centrifuges and just makes them weeks away from being able to militarize that, if President Obama kicks the can down the road and basically makes a deal with Iran saying, look, don't develop nuclear weapons on my watch but I'm going to allow you to develop the capacity, the threshold capacity to make nuclear weapons so that if you do it won't be on my watch, it'll be under the watch of a new president, Israel's simply not going to accept that and we're going to see a real crisis because Israel will then be forced, will have no choice but to take military action against the Iranian nuclear reactors, which have been pledged to wipe Israel off the map."
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Israel is within its rights to defend itself from Iran, just as the U.S. did during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he said.
"The United States didn't tolerate Cuban missiles on its border and Israel cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran," he said.
"So Israel may have to attack Iran after the United States made a deal and that will create a terrible conflict between Israel and the United States. It will isolate Israel from the international community, but the world will thank Israel, again, as it did in 1981 when Israel destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor and was condemned at the United Nations by the administration at that point in time, the Reagan administration, and then a few years later the United States thanks Israel for doing it because if Israel hadn't destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor, Saddam Hussein would still be in Kuwait and if Israel hadn't destroyed Syria's nuclear reactor, imagine what Assad would be doing today with nuclear bombs."
Dershowitz expressed harsh words for Turkey, which he said has become "an evil, non-partner" in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS).
"It cares more about killing the Kurds than ISIS does," he said. "It worries because it's never been willing to give the Kurds independence. They want to see an independent Palestinian state, but they do not want to see an independent Kurdish state and the Kurds have a far greater claim to statehood and independence than the Palestinians ever had. They rarely use terrorism, they have been a democracy, and yet Turkey is trying to suppress Turkish statehood or willing to see Kurdish people die."
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