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November 26, 2012

Report: Gaza Assault Israel's "Practice Run" for Iran 
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Following the ceasefire, reports have emerged bolstering speculation
that Israel launched the assault as a means to prepare for a potential
future attack on Iran. Citing unnamed "American and Israeli officials,"
the New York Times reports the Gaza assault and the rocket attacks it
provoked were "something of a practice run for any future armed
confrontation with Iran, featuring improved rockets that can reach
Jerusalem and new antimissile systems to counter them." At the United
Nations, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour denounced Israel for using
the Gaza assault as what he called an "experiment."

Riyad Mansour: "The Palestinian people should not be the experiment for
the Israeli forces to try to kill hundreds and to wound thousands of
Palestinians at their will. We have to put and end to the options of war
and to open the gate for options of peace, ending the occupation, and
the independence of our state."

 

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