Word: raids
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Meanwhile, Iraqi reaction to the raid has continued to be remarkably restrained. The country's basic strategy so far seems to be to let Israel condemn itself with its own words. Iraq has already earned a wide measure of world sympathy. A violent, desperate act cannot yet be ruled out, but Iraq does not seem interested in wasting valuable support...
...timing, at least, Israel may have been right about the raid. So thinks a senior Western diplomat in Beirut, who feels that the Israelis suspect, correctly, that as the Reagan Administration clarifies its Middle East policy, "it will almost certainly move more in favor of the Arabs. So, if a strike against Iraq were necessary, there would never be a better time." The same diplomat doubts that Israel will soon strike the Syrian missiles in Lebanon. Says he: "Any attempt to remove the missiles will involve Israeli casualties, and the last thing the Israeli Prime Minister needs as the country...
...aftermath of the raid, American as well as Israeli officials have suggested that not all Arabs were outraged, or even unhappy, about the demolition of Iraq's atomic reactor, despite the Arabs' apparently solid front. Prior to the raid both Syria and Saudi Arabia were in ensely suspicious of the Saddam Hussein regime. If either country?not to mention the warring Iranians?took Hussein's atomic ambitions as seriously as the Israelis did, they would be relieved by the attack. So too the Egyptians. Insists an Israeli Foreign Ministry official: "We have discreet information that the Saudis are happy...
...equally obvious that nothing short of a comprehensive Middle East agreement, including a just settlement for the issue of Palestinian self-determination, will bring true peace to the region. After the Tammuz raid, no Arab country can accept Secretary of State Haig's thesis that Soviet adventurism is a greater threat to the area. No less a figure than Saudi Arabia's King Khalid made the point last week during a visit to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Without movement toward that regional goal, even the most conservative Arab states may give...
...raid jolted U.S.-Israeli relations. An upset Reagan Administration (see NATION) condemned the attack and then suspended "for the time being" the delivery of four additional F-16s that were ready to be shipped last week from Fort Worth to Israel. The U.S. Congress will soon face the question of whether Israel violated the 1952 agreement under which the U.S. provides weapons to an ally for "defensive" purposes only. Congress is likely to find a delicate way to avoid any substantive action...