[Bushbacker]

Israel was facing destruction anyway, they would have had nothing to lose, the Arabs would have slaughtered every man, woman and child. I doubt the Brezhnev was willing to sacrifice Moscow for Damascus

___How can you believe that Nixon would have stood by and allowed the Arabs to do that?

I think that Israel's nuclear brinkmanship was an evil gambit...if true...and I just don't believe it...Nixon made it clear he was willing to resupply the IDF...Nixon saved Israel.


I knew a former IDF officer..he told me that Israel was in total panic, and was falling apart under pressure from the Arabs..and he doesn't know how they would have survived without American help.

Whhich also points up the fact that without Egypt and Jordan as belligerents, Israel can't be defeated by any band of Hamas terrorists..especially with Iraq
sidelined...that's why Sharon can take a risk like Gaza...or deal with Abbas.

[fallujah-nuker]

"I think that Israel's nuclear brinkmanship was an evil gambit...if true...and I just don't believe it...Nixon made it clear he was willing to resupply the IDF...Nixon saved Israel."

It was no bluff, they would have done it. They would have had nothing to lose. There is nothing evil about nuclear weapons, the save the lives of several hundred thousand of our guys in WW2. Nixon saved Israel from having to nuke their foes. One Israel phrased it this way, "The Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches."

My dad flew airlift missions to Israel at the time, he saw the situation first hand. The only way they could have survived without our help would have been using nuclear weapons.