Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peres' letter was so vaguely worded for "security reasons," he claimed, should it fall into unfriendly hands?that Begin could send it to the Knesset with the charge that his rival opposed the reactor raid "in principle...
...this country and this people would have been lost, after the Holocaust. Another Holocaust would have happened in the history of the Jewish people. Never again, never again. Tell your friends, tell anybody you meet, we shall defend our people with all the means at our disposal." The bombing raid, drummed Begin, was a "morally supreme act of national self-defense. No fault whatsoever on our side...
Stripped of its rhetoric, Begin's defense of the raid was based on an implicit strategic calculation: that tiny Israel, unlike...
Begin's justifications for the raid might have been more convincing if a persistent odor of electioneering had not clung to some of his other actions. The day after Begin's press conference, an ugly spate of name-calling erupted between the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Peres. Reason: Begin had given the Israeli Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee a copy of Peres' "personal and top-secret" letter that resulted in one of the raid's postponements. Peres had learned that the attack was scheduled for May 10, the date of the deciding round of French presidential elections...
...then French Premier Jacques Chirac and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The final agreement led to the erection of the 70-MW reactor at the Tammuz nuclear center in the desert at El-Tuwaitha. It was supported by an 800-kW minireactor, separately housed and untouched by the raid, that was used for minor experiments and to prepare radioactive materials...