I don’t have a YouTube account but I’ll take your word on it. The Israelis know that the forming of their nation was special and took a loooong time coming. They do not want to lose it to a bunch of ignorant idiots like the Iranians.
However, I just don’t feel a war is coming. I think the Iranians will not use a nuke once they get it and the Israelis know this. Iran will sabre rattle and make a fuss about demands from Israel and the US but they’ll be so absurd as to be laughable.
I fully understand Israel’s position and mentality. I have professional experience that has let me be among them and I fully appreciate their point of view and respect them, but any attack on Iran might be provocation for actions from other nations and Israel will weight that very heavily in their decision. Israel will only attack Iran if they feel a nuclear strike is near, but they will attack with the aid of other nations, perhaps and hopefully the US, and not be alone. That, I hope, keeps any escalations to political bickering.
CodeToad, my biggest fear, and it has also been something I’ve feared since Pakistan got the bomb, is not that they’d use it directly against Israel, or even us, but that they’d let some Hezzbollah madman have it, or some fanatic Muslim will be in a position to grab one and pass it along to co-fudementalists, or a thousand different scenarios where a terrorist gets one and, well, acts like a terrorist.
I hope you are right.