[lit-ideas] Bombing Osirik in 1981
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:49:52 -0700
On page 198 of The Losing Battle with Islam, Selbourne writes, "when Israel
carried out a pre-emptive attack on Iraq's nuclear rector at Osirak in June
1981, on the eve of the arrival there of a shipment of enriched uranium
sufficient to build four or five Hiroshima-sized bombs, the New York Times
declared that Israel had adopted 'the code of terror'."
I assume from that epithet that the NYTimes was saying that it was wrong of
Israel to bomb Osirik in 1981. What say ye Lit-idears? Do you agree with
the NYTimes? Was it wrong of Israel to bomb Osirik in 1981?
Lawrence
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