Posted on 06/02/2004 9:56:45 PM PDT by FairOpinion
I never said it would happen. I only presented it as a scenario. No one would ever consider nuking Israel or any country for that matter. The only place MAD doesn't fly is in the Middle East. Israel can destroy any country there within 1/2 hour.
The Arab world getting nukes is insurance that when they attack Israel again, Israel's threat is mitigated.
Thus triggering the Sampson Option. The Israelies would know that they didn't lose the ebola or whatever nasty bug their enemies chose.
Absolutely true. Now run the same scenario and Iran does have the bomb.
If most of Israel's population centers are destroyed in a nuclear attack, I wouldn't bet against them launching a massive strike against all of their Arab neighbors (particularly the hostile ones) to give their survivors enough time to gather together to hold off the ground attacks.
I feel the need...
...the need for speed!
You've been watching too many movies.
You'd need a much more robust agent (ebola and similar viruses are fragile) and a lot more than one vial.
After the first report of an outbreak, the UN would insist Israel close its borders and not let any flights or shipping leave the country. The wall Israel has built would enable the Palestinians to be isolated from the virus.
And Israel waits until the wind is blowing into Gaza, then releases a LOT of anthrax.
As the virus spreads, the Arab world will go to the UN and insist Israel is responsible for creating a killer virus and that God is punishing them for it.
Israel replies, "Nope, wasn't us. BTW, how's Yasser Arafat? Isn't pulmonary anthrax just plain nasty?"
European leaders and others would be slow to send in supplies and medical teams with only the US responding quickly.
And the US would be more than enough.
Meanwhile, other pulmonary anthrax outbreaks take place in Paris, Berlin, Brussels...
By the time anyone figures out that it's an attack, the only evidence points to Iran.
Within a week, Israel would be in panic mode. The hospitals would be overflowing, the infrastructure unable to sustain the casualties. It would be during this time that Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Egypt launch a massive attack.
And the Muslim global population drops down by about 30-40%...
Same result: Israel is destroyed as before, and so is much of the Arab world. The only difference is a few more NUDETs.
They don't have to use jets, the WMD's are in Syria and Lebanon.
What is the sampson option?
So it seems like the only option would be for Israel to take out the reactors. Since there is nothing to lose by doing it.
The Samson Option is so-called from Samson, who was one of the Judges in Israel (see the Book of Judges).
When they stood him among the pillars, Samson said to the servant who held his hand, "Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them." Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform. Then Samson prayed to The Lord, "O Sovereign Lord, remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes." Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived."
It refers to Israel, if confronted with certain destruction, saying "F*** it, if we're going, so's every Moose Limb we can lob a nuke at."
I call it the "Tom Lehrer Option," from his song, "We Will All Go Together When We Go."
It is my understanding Israel has made it known those two are most definitely on their "to do" list.
They still use the Sampson option, and hope that their BMD system does the job. After all, what additional have they got to lose?
Correct. But I don't believe Bashir Assad would be too keen on the idea of his nation (Syria) getting annihilated because of some crazy Mullahs in Iran.
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