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Moreover, Shamir enjoys the support of a majority of Israelis in holding on to the occupied territories, at least for the present. Iraq's Scud attacks on Israel during the war and Palestinian support for the bombardments heightened distrust of Arab intentions among Israelis. Even the opposition Labor Party seems reluctant to yield too much of the occupied lands; leader Shimon Peres suggested recently that he was not eager to give up the Golan Heights...
...Persian Gulf, we all knew who stood with whom. Who was with the United States? All of the world's democracies, including Israel, which absorbed Scud after Scud without retaliating in order to further America's war effort...
...equipment problems were nothing compared with Saddam's in the final days of the war. With military supplies and arms dwindling after numerous allied strikes, the Iraqis resorted to "an odd bit of desperation," according to a U.S. War College analyst. They launched a Scud missile at Israel that was topped with a 700-lb. chunk of concrete as its "warhead." The dud Scud buried itself harmlessly in the Negev desert...
...launched a furious campaign to get more money for an aircraft that carries an $865 million price tag. The company and the Pentagon claim that the B-2 can destroy Soviet mobile missiles dispersed in millions of square miles of thick forests. Never mind that Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles for weeks from sites in the open desert while a huge force of allied warplanes tried to find them. When it comes to buying weapons, it seems, cost is no object and logic goes out the window...
...Arab states seems to be the sensible one, given that in recent weeks the Israelis have done their part to encourage the start of peace talks. First, in an effort to prevent conflict with Arab members of the anti-Iraq coalition, Israel refrained from retaliating after 39 Scud missile attacks terrorized and even killed members of its civilian population...