The Samson Option is a term used to describe Israel’s alleged deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a “last resort” against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence, and possibly against other targets as well.[1] Israel refuses to admit it has nuclear weapons or to describe how it would use them, an official policy of nuclear ambiguity, also known as “nuclear opacity.” This has made it difficult for anyone outside the Israeli government to definitively describe its true nuclear policy, while still allowing Israel to influence the perceptions, strategies and actions of other governments.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
“The Samson Option is a term used to describe Israel’s alleged deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a “last resort” against nations whose military attacks threaten its existence, and possibly against other targets as well”
Even in the throes of its own death, Israel will never do this, no matter how tough they may talk.
The reason:
“Jewish guilt”.
It is the guilt and implausible self-loathing that comes from being “God’s chosen people” amongst a worldfull of others who are [biblically] lacking. It is the same inner guilt which causes American Jews to support an Obama in overwhelming numbers — the same Obama who would “stand with the Muslims” against Israel (as he so stated in one of his books, and has gone on to do, just as he said). They should “know better”, but even in the face of their collective intelligence and accomplishment, seem compelled to do something that is wholly self-destructive.
Yes, the Jews of Israel do what is necessary to “defend their soil” in Israel, and they do this extremely well. But they will NEVER strike en masse (i.e., using nuclear weapons, for example) against populations outside of Israel. For the “Jewish consciousness”, this is too much like the mass murder that was committed against their own people in World War II. They will hesitate, unable to “press that button”, held back by uncertainty and the inner fear of becoming mass killers themselves.
I’m not saying that Israel won’t strike against Iran. But if it does, it will be with conventional weapons in surgical, but limited, attacks.
To use nuclear weapons against civilian populations would — to them — seem “Hitlerian”.
If the time comes when Israel is attacked with nuclear force, and even seems to be destroyed — those who remain in command and with the power to lash back out at the Islamic world and take a good chunk of it down with themselves will reach for that button..... and...... be overcome by that guilt. As much as logic and war dictates that they respond in kind, they will hesitate.... and then back away. They won’t be able to do it.
Again: “Jewish guilt” will stay their hands.
Just speculatin’....