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This is John Batchel, colleagues Bill Rajio and David Doe of the Foundation for Defense

of Democracy, thinking very clearly, but it's fog of war, about Israel outsourcing, as David puts it,

outsourcing a question of the suspect nuclear weapons program to the U.S. with the B-2s and the

mob.

David answers Bill's question about,

where the Israelis ready to sacrifice boots on the ground for this occasion?

Is the B-2 adequate for Israel's concern about its existence?

David makes the comparable remark that Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the octopus,

means to destroy Israel, not live beside it, not make it diplomatically useless, but destroy it.

Therefore, David's answer is careful and complicated.

It's the beginning of a question,

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