Netanyahu quoted
Bernard Lewis in his speech to the UN General Assembly in 2012:
“There’s a great scholar of the Middle East, Prof. Bernard Lewis, who put it best. He said that for the Ayatollahs of Iran, mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent, it’s an inducement.”
Michael Oren quoted
Bernard Lewis in his Op-Ed in the LA Times
As famed Middle East
scholar Bernard Lewis once observed, “Mutually assured destruction” for the
Iranian regime “is not a deterrent — it's an inducement.”