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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

were members of the Knesset’s defense committee. But from the day

with technical help from North Korea and funding from Iran

you lose... Hizbollah survived. It won the war.”

deeper inside Lebanon. It was part of a plan for a full-scale war

the known “Hizbollah” sites were replicated in the