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war in an effort to end PLO
terrorism from southern
Lebanon.)
The New York Times edi-
torialized against the Israeli
raid, calling it one of
"inexcusable and short-
sighted aggression." The
Times argued that the Jew-
ish state was not in "mortal
danger," using Mr. Begin's
words, because she already
had nuclear capabilities.
And by becoming the first
nation to deny another the
right to build a nuclear reac-
tor, Israel struck a blow for
anarchy.
"Israel's ever widening
definition of self-defense is
illusory," the editorial
stated, because it will help
unify the Arab world, erode
the support of Israel's best
friends, and spur a
humiliated Iraq to further
violence. "Israel," the edito-
rial concluded, "risks becom-
ing its own worst enemy."
To be sure, the Jewish
state had its defenders, as
well. William Safire, in his
New York Times column,
applauded the bombing,
which he compared to a
"nuclear Entebbe" because
Israel "has rescued its peo-
ple from threatened slaugh-
ter by a bellicose dictator."
Sen. Alan Cranston, D-
Calif., wrote an Op-Ed arti-
cle in the New York Times
comparing Israel's action to
Washington's plan to attack
Cuban missiles in 1962. "If a
large superpower, the
United States, felt such a
defensive strike to be a seri-
ous option in 1962, how can
we condemn Israel today for
making such a strike when
its Government felt that the
entire nation was imper-
iled?"
And the New Republic, in
a lengthy editorial, defended
Israel's action and criticized
the New York Times edito-
rial for not taking into ac-
count Israel's unique posi-
tion, under threat from a
powerful and irrational
enemy.
That enemy,. Saddam. Hus-
sein, is still in power, still
dangerous, and still a source
of frustration to advocates of
Mideast stability. (Had
Israel not acted when it did
ten years ago, surely the
stakes in the Gulf war would
have been far higher, with
the possibility of a nuclear
holocaust.) The fact that
Saddam was able to provoke
this war that took tens of
thousands of lives and
resulted in five million refu-
gees, is the responsibility, in
large measure, of the
Western countries who
helped him work toward
building a nuclear arsenal,
or at least looked the other
way.
If those countries had
listened to Israel's appeals to
stop selling nuclear
technology to Saddam Hus-
sein, Jerusalem would not
have concluded that the only
way to prevent the spread of
nuclear weapons was to send
in the air force and blow up
the source.
Sadly, we still have not
learned the ominous lessons
of nuclear greed.
Israeli military experts
say that the Gulf war has
given Israel a respite of a
few years on her eastern
front, but that Iraq will
again pose a threat to the
Jewish state in the mid-
1990s. Who will intervene
when Iraq fails to comply
with a UN resolution calling
President Bush
has introduced an
initiative that
would lead to the
creation of a
regional nuclear-
free zone.
for the elimination of non-
conventional weapons? The
UN?
Surely, Syria's President
Assad is taking note of the
world's passive stance on
Iraq as he continues to build
his own arsenal of poison gas
and missiles aimed at Israel.
In recent weeks, President
Bush has introduced an
arms control initiative for
the Mideast that would
eventually lead to the crea-
tion of a regional nuclear-
free zone. That is an admi-
rable goal. But the presi-
dent's plan provides for the
continuing sale of conven-
tional arms to unstable and
unreliable Arab states.
And so it goes.
A decade ago, Washington,
and the world, lashed out at
Israel when it took matters
into its own hands. If this is
the price we have to pay, so
be it, Jerusalem concluded.
As Prime Minister Begin
asserted at the time, "Israel
has nothing to apologize for.
Ours is a just. cause. We
stand by it, and we will
triumph."
Ten years later, despite
the death and destruction of
the Gulf war, business goes
on as usual: nations sell
arms to aggressive Arab
regimes, and Israel looks out
for itself. Until the West
puts an end to this madden-
ing preference for dollars
over stability, Israel can
only conclude that it is
better to evoke the world's
anger than its sympathy. ❑