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Israel Has a Playbook for Dealing With North Korea
by Zev Chafets
September 7, 2017
Israel and North Korea are on opposite sides of the Asian landmass, separated by 5,000 miles as the ICBM flies. But Israelis feels close to the nuclear standoff between Washington and Pyongyang. They have faced this sort of crisis before, and may again…Begin had no military expertise. But his family had been wiped out in the Holocaust. He looked at Saddam, who was openly threating Israel, and saw Hitler. To Begin, sitting around hoping for the best was not a strategy; it was an invitation to aggression. If there was going to be a cost — political, diplomatic, military — better to pay before, not after, the Iraqis had the bomb. READ MORE
REAL CLEAR POLITICS The Nub of the North Korea Crisis. We have entered the most dangerous moment in world politics since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
