The short take: Israel has a plan ("The Samson Option") to nuke all its enemies should it look like Israel will be overrun, even if it means setting off nukes inside Israel. So, according to the host, the UK (and other Western nations) are offering assistance in order to keep Israel from escalating to a nuclear war. The Wikipedia article linked to above relates the following (footnotes omitted):
In 2002, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter which the American Jewish author Ron Rosenbaum writes "goes so far as to justify" a Samson Option approach:
Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years. The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past, and they have ensured against it. Masada was not an example to follow—it hurt the Romans not a whit, but Samson in Gaza? What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away—unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans—have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?
Rosenbaum writes in his 2012 book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III that, in his opinion, in the "aftermath of a second Holocaust", Israel could "bring down the pillars of the world (attack Moscow and European capitals for instance)" as well as the "holy places of Islam." He writes that "abandonment of proportionality is the essence" of the Samson Option.
The article cites others that say that Israel, if it were to invoke the Samson Option, would target European capitals and "take the world down with us." I suspect that if Israel were to target European capitals, it probably would also target the United States. JFK was right to oppose Israel obtaining nuclear weapons and Johnson was a fool to allow it.
Huh, I thought they were our greatest friend.
ReplyDeleteJust when they need our blood and treasure.
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