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Israeli Press Convinced
U.S. Would Beat Iraq

drag Israel into the war, said
Mr. Rosen, who added that
Israel's defense estab-
s the United States lishment is certain that Mr.
edges closer to war in
Hussein lacks the capability
the Persian Gulf, the
to "seriously threaten Israel
nature and outcome of that
and its civilian population."
conflict is being hotly
This, he says, is why Israel's
debated in the press, both
defense minister has decided
here and abroad. Israeli
not to distribute gas masks
journalists are generally
to civilians.
convinced that the United
But Yediot Ahronot
States will prevail in any columnist Ron Ben-Yishai
shooting match with Iraq — was not as complacent about
and that Iraqi strongman the gas mask decision. The
Saddam Hussein knows this.
Israeli public's level of
Ma'ariv columnist Em-
"anxiety," he said, makes
manuel Rosen, for instance, moot the government's
was sure that Hussein claim that distributing
"knows that even if he. masks would arouse panic.
causes Americans heavy And claims that mask
losses, he is destined to be
distribution would provoke
defeated in this kind of con-
Hussein to launch missiles
frontation." So, he is trying
and aircraft against Israel
"to avoid a military confron-
were groundless.
tation with all his might,
In an interesting sidelight,
relying instead on attrition
Yediot Ahronot interviewed
without fire . . . He may even
an Israeli air force pilot who
demonstrate some flexibility
participated in Israel's 1981
in his compromise pro-
attack on an Iraqi nuclear
posals."
reactor. U.S. pilots "will
But, said the Ma'ariv
swallow [Iraqi pilots] alive"
writer, no one has precluded
in any aerial dog-fights, he
the "fantastical possibility"
said, but American fliers or-
that the Iraqi might use
dered to bomb sites in Iraq
biological weapons against
"will have to show respect
troops if he is "cornered,
for the Iraqi defenses .. .
defeated and humiliated" —
This is a defense system
and the U.S. would retaliate
which gif-dned much battle
with nuclear weapons.
experience during the war
Mr. Hussein may then
with Iran."

ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

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