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Thu 12 Dec 2008Obama to offer Israel 'nuclear umbrella'
US President-elect Barack Obama plans to offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off any
nuclear attack on the Jewish state by Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported today.
The Haaretznewspaper, quoting an unnamed US source close to Obama for its information, said Mr Obama's administration would pledge under the proposed "nuclear umbrella" to respond to any Iranian nuclear strike against Israel with a US retaliation in kind.
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