Not If But When

Published July 30, 2012 11:35am ET



“This attack will be a precedent for every future government in Israel. . . . [E]very future Israeli prime minister will act, in similar circumstances, in the same way.”

—Menachem Begin, after Israel’s 1981 attack

on Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear research facility.

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