Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...smoke screen had worked," they write, "The West was focused on Israel. The Arabs were focused on oil production quotas and pricing. And Iraq was focused on Kuwait...
There are political conundrums too: Would Saddam Hussein respond to American air raids by bombing or missile attacks on Israel, and if so, would the inevitable Israeli counterattack speed a U.S. military victory or be outweighed by the defection of Arab governments and armies so far committed to the anti-Saddam cause? "War is an unpredictable art, not a calculable science," says Admiral William Crowe, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a comment that in relation to a Persian Gulf war seems an understatement...
...Ethiopian deal was arranged, Cardoen says, through "third parties," whom he does not name but who have been identified by one of his employees as Israelis. Rumors have been circulating for months in Washington and the Middle East that Israel provided cluster bombs and other military aid to Mengistu in exchange for exit visas for Ethiopian Jews. Jerusalem, however, vehemently denies any involvement in Cardoen's Ethiopian deal...
...Understandably, popular enthusiasm for a foreign military adventure is not great at a time when Soviet mothers are still mourning sons killed in Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia and Syria cringe at the idea of a conflict pitting Arab against Arab. They remain uncomfortable with being -- at least theoretically -- aligned with Israel, which, though it has no troops committed to the gulf, is undoubtedly in favor of striking Iraq. Waiting for war may not corrode strength of arms, but it does eat away at the heart...
...been thwarted. In 1977 the country began installing a French Osirak-model nuclear reactor, ostensibly for research projects, at El-Tuwaitha, 10 1/2 miles southwest of Baghdad. Four years later, convinced that the reactor's real purpose was to produce plutonium to be chemically reprocessed and used for weapons, Israel bombed the facility to rubble...