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Article: ISRAEL Saddam Hussein's survival may spur a retaliation
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 23, 1991
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JERUSALEM -- When Iraqi missiles began to fall on Israeli soil,
the country's leaders vowed to retaliate. Not now, they said. But
sometime. Somewhere.
Now, as peace initiatives inch haltingly forward, so does the
possibility of military action by Israel. For the plans of both
Moscow and Washington hold out a scenario viewed as unacceptable
here: a postwar Iraq with President Saddam Hussein at its helm.
"We can say now that it would be very bad and dangerous for us if
Saddam Hussein remained in power in Iraq with a substantial part of
his huge army still intact," Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said after
Iraq accepted the Soviet initiative. "If conditions change, it will
change our behavior. ...