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eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:
#
#Don't kid yourself, Israel was not motivated by mere alliance with the
#US.
#With the density of sorties the Coalition forces were sending over
#Iraq, Israel realized that it just didn't make sense to send any of
#their planes into harm's way.  Either military sense (they couldn't
#have destroyed a significant number of Scud launchers) or political
#(they couldn't have added significantly to the destruction of Iraq,
#hence wouldn't have scared Iraq at all).
#All they could accomplish was to make Iraq hate Israel even more, or

That's easy for you to say. To sit on your butt and do nothing while
your cities are under missile attacks for a month is showing enormous
restraint. I wonder what the US would have done in a similar situation.

The IDF could defintily do something to stop, or decrease, the Skud attacks;
either land commando units or throw the considerable power of the
Israeli air-force into it.

As I said in a previous post, the Arab coalition memebrs not only
displayed a cruel attitude towards Israel in their threat to
quite the coalition if Israel dares to defend itself, they also
spat the US in the face.

#Surely you jest.  There is more than enough hatred in Israeli politics.
#There is considerable evidence that conquest of Arab territories was a
#goal of the 1948 war of independence.

Surely you are joking. The last time I checked, the '48 war was started
by the Arabs with the clear intention of destroying Israel, or as
the secretary general of the Arab league put it (May 15, 1948):

"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which
 will be spoken about together with the Mongolian massacares and the
 crusades".

(yeh, I know. Just propaganda, he didn't *really* mean it. Yeh, Yeh).

-Danny Keren.