Dershowitz to Newsmax: Lieberman ‘Put His Patriotism Before Everything’

Late former Sen. Joe Lieberman was a “great man, a great American, and a great Jew” who “put his patriotism before everything,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said about his friend and colleague, who died Wednesday at 82 from complications after a fall.

“We were working together on a statement regarding Israel, literally, at the moment of his death,” Dershowitz told Newsmax’s “Eric Bolling The Balance” on Wednesday. “This may be the last thing he ever wrote. This is an edited version of a statement about Israel with his handwritten delineation. He sent it to me, probably only a couple of hours before he fell.”

Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent, was a person who “could merge together his Zionism, his love for Israel, and his love for America,” Dershowitz said. “He’ll be greatly missed.”

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