JERUSALEM, May 15 (UPI) -- A report Saturday urged the country to plan preemptive strikes against weapons of mass destruction arsenals in the Middle East.
A report, "Israel's Strategic Future," said Israel must prevent an enemy WMD coalition through conventional preemptive strikes against vital facilities, the Middle East Newsline reported Saturday. The report said the state has been threatened by a biological or nuclear first-strike that seeks to exploit Israel's small space and high population density.
"To meet its ultimate deterrence objectives -- that is, to deter the most overwhelmingly destructive enemy first-strikes -- Israel must seek and achieve a visible second-strike capability to target approximately 15 enemy cities," the report, presented to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said. "Ranges would be to cities in Libya and Iran, and recognizable nuclear bomb yields would be at a level sufficient to fully compromise the aggressor's viability as a functioning state. All enemy targets should be selected with the view that their destruction would promptly force the enemy to cease all nuclear/biological/chemical exchanges with Israel."
