Bombing the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor

The Jewish Story · TJS S5E15 Bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor

In 1981, Israeli Prime Minister Menaḥem Begin (Likud) bombed Iraqi reactor Osirak on the distant banks of the Tigris. This gave birth to the “Begin doctrine” of absolute opposition to any enemy of the Jewish people possessing nuclear weapons.

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