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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Star Wars North (and belligerent nations)
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 11:03:28 EST
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While calling Israel "belligerent" is pushing things rather far, one
should recognize that Israel is one of the few (so far) nations which
has both nuclear weaponry and a serious possibility of getting into
sufficiently dire straits to consider using it.  The one major reassuring
note is Israel's considerable non-nuclear combat superiority over its
hostile neighbors.

We can only hope that the fragile peace in the Middle East gets a bit
less fragile.  The prospect of Israel having to choose between its own
destruction and starting even a local nuclear war is most unsettling.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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