A senior Israeli official said, however, that if the investigation becomes a pretext for halting the deal for domestic political reasons, Israel would have reason for genuine concern.
Defenders of the current rules system also say that the industry is capable of fixing itself in the long run, that the crisis will eventually subside and thus should not be used as a pretext for encouraging further deal-making.
But you would have to take care, lest this rule became a pretext for aggression.
He said the strikes would "feed conspiracy theories that Washington is in league with ISIS," as well as create a pretext for Mr. Assad to avoid his commitments under the cease-fire deal.
His new book, "A Pretext for War," draws a damning portrait of the country's intelligence agencies as woefully ill equipped to deal with the threats of terrorism and a post-cold-war world.
But she said that in a country dealing with the threat of terrorism since the September 2001 attacks, the fight against it should not be a pretext for more pervasive forms of surveillance.
The administration says it specifically told the North Korean negotiators that the deal was off if satellites were launched, since it considers such launchings a pretext for missile tests.
The taboo was a pretext for extortion.
This later became a pretext for defending "Russia's citizens".
Any provocation could easily become a pretext for renewed conflict.
