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...Osirak, Iran's leaders have spread their country's nuclear facilities between at least 20 known sites and buried many of them deep underground. Inflicting serious damage would require multiple surgical air strikes. "We are speaking about a large program dispersed over a very large area," says Yiftah Shapir, a military analyst at the University of Tel Aviv's Jaffee Center and a retired air force officer. Iran's facilities are also much further from Israel than Osirak, making a military strike more difficult and dangerous-and probably requiring Israeli bombers to refuel mid-operation. "There are serious operational difficulties...
...though, the game will reach a point at which Israelis are prepared to act-with or without their allies. "We dare not let our children live under the shadow of a nuclear Iran," argues Lerman. "At that point all options will be on the table." The alternative, says Yiftah Shapir, "is to come to terms with a nuclear Iran. Absent change we may have to face that reality...
...years later, and in sharp contrast to the revelations about the Swiss government's acts and attitudes, I want to thank and salute that wonderful Swiss family for their courageous behavior in saving one bunch of shabby refugees from being thrown into the darkness of the Final Solution. JESHA SHAPIR Tel Aviv...
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