Word: reactor
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...just a few minutes Israel did more for the nonproliferation of atomic weapons by destroying Iraq's nuclear reactor [June 22] than all the treaties have done in all these years...
Peres accused Begin of making "highflying speeches" about the Syrian missile crisis, and criticized the bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor because it jeopardized the Egyptian-Israeli peace process and put Egyptian President Anwar Sadat "in an impossible position." Begin replied that Sadat was still friendly toward him. As the campaign headed into this week's election, some polls showed Likud in the lead, 39% to 32%, but others called the race virtually even. Trying to pick up the large number of undecided votes, Peres offered the post of Defense Minister in his shadow cabinet to former Prime Minister...
Meanwhile, a broader debate raged over the wisdom of Israel's raid on the Iraqi reactor. At a committee meeting in the Knesset, Begin said that U.S. authorities had given him a document that supported his suspicions that Iraq was indeed planning to build a bomb. In fact, the document, although raising concerns about Iraq's ultimate intentions, stopped far short of what Begin claimed. Admitted a highly placed Israeli source: "The aim of the paper was to play down the possible danger of the reactor...
...main casualty of the Israeli attack on the reactor appeared to be the peace mission of U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib and his efforts to resolve the issue posed by Syria's missiles in Lebanon. Even the moderate Saudis were distinctly cool during Habib's last round of visits before he headed home for consultations. Said a Lebanese official who is in close touch with the Palestinians: "The Arabs view the raid on Iraq as a demonstration that the Israelis are America's policeman in the Middle East...
Such visions have blinked back to the public mind in recent weeks, since Israel buried Iraq's nuclear reactor and defended its action on the ground of "Never again." It referred to the Holocaust, which is Israel's frame of reference generally-the ghost of annihilation that shapes much of its foreign policy, temperament and attitude toward its neighbors. Two weeks ago, the Holocaust's survivors convened in Israel to keep the memory awake, in some cases to search for friends and relatives from whom they were torn away in places like Belsen, Auschwitz and the other...