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2025-06-29 Iraq

Lessons Unlearned from Israel's Bombing of Iraq's Osirak Reactor

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-29 08:41|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [117 views ] Top

#1 The claim that Israel’s bombing of Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981 halted or set back Saddam Hussein’s efforts to acquire a nuclear weapons capability is a popular myth.

Hogwash !

Posted by Besoeker 2025-06-29 08:58|| 2025-06-29 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 a popular myth

Well, he's not doing that now is he.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-29 09:29|| 2025-06-29 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 His most recent previous emanation there was

Interview: A Rabbi, a Jewish Historian, and I Explain the Israel-Palestine Conflict

wherein he explains his considered opinion — having read the Tanakh, the Old Testament or Jewish bible — that modern Judaism is heretical to choose Zionism, and the tiny group of anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jews, Neturei Karta, is right. And thus anti-Zionism is not Jew hate.

He has written several books on the subject.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-06-29 10:49|| 2025-06-29 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 There were the Korah in the desert wilderness. The Hellenized Jews resisted Judas Maccabaeus. There are always folks on the wrong side. Joe Biden made a career of it.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-06-29 11:07|| 2025-06-29 11:07|| Front Page Top

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