(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel and Aluf Benn - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert related: "It's only rarely that a Mossad chief calls and says: 'I have to see you.' The Mossad chief arrives and sits in my office. They put on the table an intelligence finding of the type rarely encountered in this country....[The threat] at the existential level is of an unprecedented order of magnitude." In the background was "the Begin doctrine" and the precedent of the bombing of the reactor in Iraq in 1981. Prime Minister Menachem Begin established the doctrine whereby Israel will not allow any of its foes in the Middle East to develop nuclear weapons.
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