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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s recent announcement that he will strike back if Iraq attacks Israel marks a major shift in Israeli thinking since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has spoken out against the policy change, saying that it would be in Israel’s best interests not to get involved. But Israel is a sovereign nation; it unquestionably has the right to defend itself from an Iraqi strike...
...first strike came at the seventy-minute mark on a penalty kick by junior center-midfielder Kevin Ara, following a foul to senior Jeremy Truntzer racing down the rights side of the penalty...
...makes eminent sense for Israel to announce now that it will strike back—to do otherwise would only encourage Iraq to attack. But if that is not sufficient to deter Saddam Hussein from attacking, then the U.S. should support Israel’s right to a retaliatory strike if necessary. Again, as in 1991, the Bush administration’s main concern is that retaliation would harm the coalition for war against Iraq. It would not only inflame Arab-Israeli tensions, but it also could prevent the U.S. military from gaining the cooperation it needs from Arab states...
...crucial to protecting Israel against the threat of Iraq but the administration must also recognize that Israel still has the unquestionable right to respond to outside threats. Americans should remember that Israel, in an act of self-preservation, saved innumerable lives when Prime Minister Menachem Begin launched an air strike called Operation Babylon against an Iraqi nuclear plant in June 1981. The U.S., which condemned Operation Babylon when it occurred, reversed course after the Gulf War and praised Israel for its forward-looking action. Luckily for the U.S., Israel did not rely on American promises of protection but instead acted...
Since she graduated from Harvard 18 years ago, Blair has focused her research on the intellectual history of early modern Europe. She authored her first book, The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science, in 1997. The work documents the struggle to strike a balance between religious fanaticism and scientific secularism, Blair said...