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To: Bilow who wrote (37258)	8/12/2002 12:01:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; I did not mean to suppose that Israel had no nukes. But your reply makes it clear that, with nukes, Israel would kneel for no nation, even if that nation had nukes. Carl, you have set up a classic False Dichotomy here, that either a nation must kneel, in which case nukes have an offensive effect, or else it doesn't kneel, in which case nukes have no offensive effect at all. As my reply pointed out, the existence of nukes on the Arab side alone (and even on the Arab side as well as the Israeli side) might have a very profound effect on the political and military calculations, even without being used.