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I held off doing anything else until there seemed to me no

” I told a reporter. “Let’s be patient.” Privately

that the suspicions now circulating turn out to be

initially in a New York paper and then the Israeli press

it became known that the Israeli police were investigating Olmert’s

and thus feel no compelling reason to retaliate.

deny that he’d been trying to make a nuclear

Israel deliberately made no public comment. We refused to

including the pioneering use of electronic

but Syrian notice. The reactor was destroyed.

in an intricately coordinated air attack that

but Olmert turned to her and said: “Are you sure you’re

or by the chief of staff or service commanders.

and frustrated with me as well. We held dozens of

Olmert got more and more frustrated with the fact

we were choosing between two off-the-shelf

putting them on even higher alert. But the operational

as part of an increasingly close alliance with

there was never any question that we would take any and all

when we’d launched our preemptive strike on Saddam Hussein’s