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From: gwhawkins@watrose.UUCP (gwhawkins)
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Subject: Re: Belligerent nations
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 12:00:33 EST
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> Calling Israel "belligerent" ignores the fact that the state
> has been under attack since its establishment in 1948.  Also, the fact 
> that Israel has put some of Iraq's nuclear capacity out of commission has
> been omitted.
> Brian Nixon.

I think your second comment undermines your statement.  Isreal blew-up the
Iraqi Nuclear Powerplant because they don't want anyone "else" to have
the bomb in the area.  I would equate this to the US waging war on the 
USSR in 1950 to get them before they got the bomb.

		larry fast (Universty of Waterloo)
		broadcasting from exile