Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summit conference, held in the Israeli-administered Sinai town of Ofira in June, had been something of a holding action for Begin, who was facing elections at the end of that month. Whatever bonhomie the Ofira meeting produced was swiftly dissipated by Israel's surprise attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad only three days later. Sadat felt humiliated by both the nature and timing of the Israeli action against an Arab state. He was even angrier after the Israelis bombed Beirut in mid-July, killing some 300 people and wounding 800. So the first item of business...
...issue had bedeviled U.S.-Israeli relations for ten weeks, and when it was finally settled the announcement came as something of an anticlimax. Having registered its displeasure over the Israeli bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor and a subsequent attack on Beirut that killed 300 people, the Reagan Administration last week released 16 U.S.-built jet fighters for shipment to Israel. The U.S. had ordered the embargo to determine whether Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government had committed a "substantial violation" of an agreement with the U.S. that stipulates that American arms shall only be employed defensively...
...Adviser Richard Allen and occasionally people in his own department. Neumann had earlier displeased Haig by pushing for the U.S. to sell Saudi Arabia five sophisticated AWACS radar and command center planes, while Haig saw no reason to rush the deal. To make matters worse, when Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear power plant in June, Neumann complained that U.S. reaction had been excessively mild...
Whether or not Begin had deliberately intended to embarrass the Administration, Reagan and his advisers were clearly not prepared for the Beirut raid. Israeli officials predictably objected when the U.S. delayed delivery of the F-16s* following the attack on the Iraqi reactor. Yet Begin and his Cabinet apparently assumed that the delay was only symbolic and saw no need to pay attention to U.S. concerns about Israeli military actions. They were more interested in demonstrating that there were no strings attached to their use of the F-16s. Indeed, late last week Israel condemned as "unfair" the latest delay...
...reasons: the Administration did not want to pick a fight with the influential Israeli lobby in Congress while it is trying to pass its economic program. In addition, many of Reagan's foreign policy advisers felt that despite the formal protests from the Arab world after the Iraqi reactor had been destroyed, many moderate leaders in the area were secretly pleased by what Israel had done. This comforting illusion also exploded last week: King Khalid announced that Saudi Arabia would pay for reconstruction of the Iraqi reactor (original cost estimate: $260 million...