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June 9, 1981

Memorandum for Richard V. Allen from Douglas J. Feith, ‘Israeli Raid on Iraqi Nuclear Facility’

NSC staffer Douglas J. Feith took the internal debate on the legitimacy of the raid a step further, stating that “no rebuke of Israel’s raid against Iraq should be issued without an equally emphatic rebuke of Iraq.” Feith’s argument was based on the fact that Iraq had continuously refused to acknowledge Israel’s existence and was officially at war with it.

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Executive secretariat - Country file: Iran-Iraq, Box 37, (Box 68), RRL. Obtained for the NPIHP by Giordana Pulcini and Or Rabinowitz

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2021-05-25

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Memorandum

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270551

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Confidential