Begin's Blast

"You declare that you are 'punishing' Israel. What kind of talk is that, 'punishing' Israel? Are we a vassal state? A banana republic? Are we 14-year-old boys that if they don't behave they have their knuckles smacked?

>You have no moral right to lecture us on civilian casualties. We have read the history of [World War II], and we know what happened to civilians when you carried out military operations against the enemy. We also read the history of the Viet Nam War and your term 'body counts.'

> You cannot and will not...

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