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Article: Israel should act against Saddam Hussein
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- March 3, 1998
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Michael Rader '95
University Wire
03-03-1998
(Brown Daily Herald) (U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While I was living in Jerusalem last year, a crisis erupted between Israel and Syria. President Hafez Assad declared that if the Netanyahu government was not willing to abide by late Prime Minister Rabin's alleged concessions on the Golan Heights, Syria would take back the region by force. Assad deployed commando units, tanks and artillery on Israel's border, and escalated his support of Hizbullah in Lebanon. Israel, in turn, beefed up its Golan defenses and prepared for the possibility of all-out war with Syria.
The public took this crisis seriously, but I remember wondering why no one bothered ...