Anything you can do
ANY allusion to lethal gas provokes profound feelings among Israelis; this week, after all, they lamented Holocaust Day. The latest wave of chemical-weapons fear was set off on April 29th by a report in Haaretz—later confirmed by the government—that Syria had developed VX, a particularly lethal form of sarin nerve gas, and had tipped some of its Scud ground-to-ground missiles with the new poison.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Anything you can do”
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