Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jordan's King Hussein, one of the best friends of the U.S. in the region, spoke bitterly about American policy to Anthony Lewis of the New York Times. Hussein was particularly angry with the U.S. for refusing to do more than rebuke Israel for its bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor last month, and for tolerating the Begin government's policy on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Declared Hussein: "Israel is the U.S., and the U.S. is Israel. That is the reality." The Israelis operate under "your American protection, your armaments, your material resources," said Hussein...
...distressed by the worldwide condemnation of Israel for the destruction of the Iraqi reactor. Yet I prefer reproach to expressions of pity had Israel suffered an atomic bombardment...
...lost my Jewish parents in Treblinka and endured twelve years of Israeli citizenship, including combat in three wars. Nevertheless, I emigrated from Israel in disgust with Begin's settlement policy on the West Bank. The raid on the Iraqi reactor was pure electioneering...
...tomatoes at Peres' car and shouted down speeches by Labor candidates. Begin undoubtedly picked up votes from his virulent anti-German campaign, his stern stand on the Syrian missile crisis, his meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last month and, above all, the surprise Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor...
...strengthen Israel, no matter who won the election, the Administration late last week acknowledged that it would send six F-16 warplanes to Israel on schedule later this month and would "soon" release the four F-16s that had been held up after the Israeli airstrike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor...