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so I'm reading Striking Back by Aaron J. Klein, and he talks about Israeli assassination policy pre-Munich, noting that in 1968 the Mossad marked Arafat as likely trouble thus came up with a plan, they planed to set off a massive car bomb in Damascus outside Arafat's office where he both worked and lived, the car and it's 100 pound high explosive bomb where in Damascus when the Mossad went to Prime Minster Levi Eshkol for his blessing, Eshkol in his 6 years in office never green lit any assassinations feeling they did not work, this time was no different, he pulled the plug, Mossad was deeply disappointed, but what if things had been different what if Eshkol just this once said yes? or what if Mossad went ahead with out him, or what if Eshkol who would die in the early months of 1969 died early leaving more hawkish Yigal Allon or Golda Meir to make the call? in short what if in 1968 a massive car bomb leveled the Damascus office of Yasser Arafat killing him?
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