27 YEARS SINCE THE GULF WAR - WHY DIDN'T ISRAEL RESPOND?

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27 YEARS SINCE THE GULF WAR - WHY DIDN'T ISRAEL RESPOND?

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BY MOSHE ARENS  FEBRUARY 12, 2018 21:46

Politicking and diplomacy made Israel sit on its hands while Scud missiles reined down

  The release recently by the IDF and Defense Ministry archives of interviews with me and the late Lt.-Gen. Dan Shomron, who was defense minister and chief of staff at the time of the Gulf War, has rekindled the debate about whether Israel should have responded to the Iraqi missile attacks during the Gulf War. Thirty-nine Scud missiles were launched from western Iraq against Israeli targets during the five-and-a-half weeks of the war. Only six landed in populated areas, causing considerable property damage and the loss of a single life.
 

Throughout the war US president George H. W. Bush did his utmost to keep Israel from responding. US deputy secretary of state Larry Eagleburger and undersecretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz arrived in Israel four days before the aerial bombing of Iraq began, on a mission to convince us not to launch a preemptive attack and to stay out of the war