From the Soul

Rarely has a national leader laid out with such emphasis, or in such vivid language, the distinctive course he had set for his country as did Menachem Begin last week. Samples of the Prime Minister's impassioned discourse:

>"The Iraqis were preparing atomic bombs to drop on the children of Israel. Haven't you heard of 1½ million little Jewish children who were thrown into the gas chambers?"

> "So we faced a terrible dilemma: Should we now be passive, and then lose the last opportunity without those horrible casualties amongst the Baghdad population, to destroy...

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