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...time, Begin's office received two additional intelligence reports that the Iraqis were prepared to activate the reactor (make it "hot" in technical jargon) as early as the first week in July. On June 5, Begin gave orders to launch the attack two days later. His day of decision was the 14th anniversary of the Six-Day...
...broadened that definition on occasion to include pre-emptive attacks when there was overwhelming evidence that an aggressor planned a hostile act in the immediate future. In 1967, for example, the U.N. Security Council did not condemn Israel for its Six-Day War attack on Egypt, since there was evidence of Egypt's aggressive intentions. Says Christian Tomuschat, professor of international law at the University of Bonn: "It always comes down to the same question: Was there a real and imminent danger that would have justified a preventive strike...
...following independence, the 1956 Suez war, the Six-Day War of 1967, the 1969-70 war of attrition, and the 1973 October...
According to the Saudis, the essential Israeli concern is that, with AWACS surveying their aircraft and naval movements, they could not again pull off a surprise attack on Arab states, such as the aerial assault that won the Six-Day War of 1967. Israeli officials insist that their objections go much deeper. One or two Saudi AWACS planes hovering over Saudi territory, they assert, could keep all of Israel under surveillance: though AWACS cannot pick out ground targets, the planes could monitor all Israeli aircraft movements and even aerial training exercises. Pentagon planners say AWACS planes could not coordinate...
...little more than a year's time, Israel will transfer to full Egyptian sovereignty the remaining third of the wedge-shaped 23,622 sq.mi. Sinai Peninsula that it has occupied since the Six-Day War of June 1967* That final withdrawal, which must be completed by April 25,1982, is already making waves. Last week Israeli settlers in the area blocked local roads in protest, while sympathizers in Jerusalem threatened to demonstrate in front of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's office. In Washington, meanwhile, Secretary of State Alexander Haig revived a controversial proposal that could station more than...