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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Belligerent nations
Message-ID: <577@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 11:59:16 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.577
Posted: Wed Apr  3 11:59:16 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Apr-85 13:06:08 EST
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Israel has reason to worry

In article <7408@watrose.UUCP> Larry Fast@watrose.UUCP (gwhawkins) writes:
||                                                        Israel 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.

Hardly. Iraq, along with several other Arab nations, is in a permanent
state of war with Israel. Since it came into existence, Israel has had
to fight for its life. In that context, it's quite reasonable to understand
it developing a nuclear capability. Belligerent? How about basic
self-defense. Israel poses no threat to Iraq nor any of the other
countries in the Middle East, if they'd only leave it alone.
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