I supposed I'll have to repeat myself, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't attempt another dodge: If Israel is nuked, and it's as concerted an effort (among Arab nations) as Ritter suggests it could be, do you think it unreasonable that Israel responds in kind by destroying (with nukes) the very nations that conspired against it?
Israel has a problem determining what is an appropriate response (so do we, the US, for that matter... but we err in the other direction). Destroying the whole of Arab World because Iraq dropped 'the bomb', as you predicted the Israeli response would be, is over the top. (and I thought "get a grip" was a fairly kind response).
We would not be in this mess if Colin Powell, when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had not been screaming 'we got to stop the war now' on the conference call between Storming Norman, Bush41, and Cheney. As it turned out, there was only 1 or 2 Charcoaled Iraqis on the Highway of Death and most of the Republican guard escaped to the north.