Ross, Dershowitz confident Obama has Israel’s back on Iran
09/21/2012
WASHINGTON – Dennis Ross and Alan Dershowitz, high-profile supporters of both Israel and US President Barack Obama, told The Jerusalem Post Thursday they were confident the president would support Israel should it attack Iran in a last-ditch effort to stop a nuclear bomb, and that Obama would attack Iran himself if necessary.
They also took issue with Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s recently uncovered statements at a closed-door fund-raiser in May about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, where he said he doesn’t see much potential for a two-state solution.
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“If you create an impression that everything’s hopeless, you’re going to find you’re not going to be able to sustain stability,” Ross, who served as an adviser to Obama and several previous administration on the peace process, said in a telephone interview with the Post.
“Frustration is going to build.”
“We need a president who tries even harder in light of the difficulties to bring about a peace process,” said Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, also speaking to the Post by phone. “The main beneficiary of a two-state solution would be Israel.”
Dershowitz agreed with Romney that many Palestinians didn’t want peace and that Israel could face security problems – but he contended that other Palestinians, including some of their leaders, did want peace, and that Israel’s security would have to be an essential part of a future deal.
http://www.jpost.com/USPresidentialrace/Article.aspx?id=285780
