Off topic, but you brought up a memory. We saw the jets on their way to bomb the reactor. They flew right over our heads. We were working in the Negev but were off scuba diving in the Gulf of Eilat. We knew something was up because they were flying much lower than usual and they headed right out over the gulf and into Saudi Arabia. This is something they never did. Of course we didn’t find out until later what they were up to but when we heard we knew it was the jets we saw.

I don’t think most people have a clue. If Israel hadn’t taken out that reactor no telling what kind of world we would be living in now.

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