Israeli officer threatens to nuke Mecca, Medina

IRNA ^ | Dec 9, 2002

[Colorado Doug]

Al-Khalil, Dec 9, IRNA -- A high-ranking Israeli officer has threatened to attack Islamic holy places in the Middle East with nuclear bombs, an Israeli newspaper said Sunday.

The Ha'aretz Hebrew newspaper quoted an unidentified high-ranking officer as saying that in case Israel was attacked by states or terrorist groups, the Jewish state would respond by dropping nuclear bombs on holy Islamic cities such Mecca, Medina in Saudi Arabia and Qom in Iran.

The paper quoted the officer, who works as Guide in Israeli army colleges, as saying that Israel possesses hundreds of nuclear weapons along with their delivery systems, including long-range ballistic missiles, long-range bombers and nuclear submarines.

Israel is the only entity in the Middle East to possess a huge arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, including a sizable nuclear arsenal. However, the United States, Israel's guardian-ally, has always avoided any serious discussion of Israel's weapons of mass destruction. /NK/BH/AR End

[TomSmedley]

If the Mohammedans are patient they can simply wait until they become the majority population in Israel.

Our enemy the devil typically screws up by launching some form of precipitious, premature action.

[Junior]

Israel is the only entity in the Middle East to possess a huge arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, including a sizable nuclear arsenal. However, the United States, Israel's guardian-ally, has always avoided any serious discussion of Israel's weapons of mass destruction. /NK/BH/AR End

Gee, Israel has never sponsored terrorist attacks against its enemies, either. Maybe we trust Israel with WMD that we wouldn't trust in the hands of Moslems.

[crystalk]

Oh, not really, I feel those books are too padded and stretched out, I bog down and go to sleep trying to read them...

And I am not a dispensationalist, though I do expect the soon coming of Jesus Christ, literally, visibly, and premillennially.

Just call me a Bible Prophecy fan.

Mr. LaHaye may not have the literary gifts or writing style I might wish, and I might see his mass rapture of hundreds of millions as a bit uncalled for, but wherever I am going, I expect to see him right there with me, and hope he would feel the same.

[Colorado Doug]

Presuming that Israel survived a nuclear strike, how exactly would exterminating the Palestinians bring back the dead Israelis. How would Israel continue to exist if Europe, and indeed the whole world, including the United States, embargoed or even blockaded Israel? How would the Israeli government survive the wrath of the surviving population? Israeli nuclear action without clear and immediate danger to the existence of Israel would constitute folly of the highest order.

What Muslim leader would want to be the one to bring about the annihilation of Mecca and Medina? Sounds like a good deterrent policy to me.

[Flint]

Gee Wiz, I wonder what he really thinks?

[Slipjack]

The Rag Headed Iran would have been Nuked before that would have happened, think about it for are not well like by any of us either.

[Terridan]

...before or after they were "dusted"? Cuz, I would think if Israel nuked Mecca, they would also nuke whoever else had a snake pit, simultaneously!

[mac_truck]

Osama Bin Ladin fan?

[Gerfang]

I stand corrected ... wonder how it would hold up against Patriots and Arrow ABM systems

Don’t know. My point is that using Nuclear weapons essentially on a whim is folly and would probably cause the end of the Nation of Israel.

[Gerfang]

Pakistani delivery systems don't have the range to get their nukes to Israel.

This is wrong. The Pakistan Ghauri II has a range of about 1700-2200km.

Israel, on the other hand, can nuke Pakistan very easily either by getting their subs into position in the Arabian Sea or by long range fighter bomber delivery. ...And the Paks could suffer close to 75 million dead as a result.

That’s true, but how would that bring back the dead Israelis?

[RightWhale]

If that's not the Israeli government's official position he should be fired.

It's nothing compared to the Chinese general's offer to trade LA for Taiwan.

[Gerfang]

...before or after they were "dusted"? Cuz, I would think if Israel nuked Mecca, they would also nuke whoever else had a snake pit, simultaneously!

Well, hell. If you’re going on a Nuke-A-Thon, why not take out the source of Israel’s biggest problems and hit Berlin and Moscow – the Arabs don’t hold a candle to what those bastards have done to the Jews. If you’re afraid of retaliation, you can still hit Berlin. What are they going to do about it?

[galt-jw]

THIS is the attitude needed.

[Gerfang]

Osama Bin Ladin fan?

I’m no fan or radical Islam. In fact, I’ve made my distaste for such regimes clear back when people like you thought “Taliban” was a type of roll-on deodorant.

I also believe most people post to the various “nuke Mecca” threads to blow off steam. Sadly the only effect such postings have is to make yourselves, and by extension all Americans, look like foaming-at-the-mouth idiots.

But, whatever makes you happy…

[dennisw]

The Ha'aretz Hebrew newspaper quoted an unidentified high-ranking officer as saying that in case Israel was attacked by states or terrorist groups, the Jewish state would respond by dropping nuclear bombs on holy Islamic cities such Mecca, Medina in Saudi Arabia and Qom in Iran.

Travis. Qom made the cut! This made my day. Iran is a thousand miles away from Israel but has been a major pest with it's backing of Jihadist proxies such as Hizbollah.

[Travis McGee]

Great to see that the rest of the world is slowly catching up to the FRBT.

(Free Republic Brain Trust.)