“I would not nuke Tehran.”
I would nuke Damascus.
Like previous wars in the ME, Israel’s satellites, drones and HUMINT will already know what is coming before it even happens. There can be no massing of troops by the Muzzies so there is no way they will ever take over Israel.
The best they can do is send in missiles and rockets until Israel says “No Mas.” And without the use of WMD’s there will be damage to property and maybe a few casualties. Israel has shelters that can withstand more of the shelling.
The problem lies in whether the Muzzies declare a cease fire before Israel retaliates. The other problem is if Israel does not retaliate, while they build their cities back up the Muzzies can repeat the process.
They way Israel wins a war like this is by telling the UN to piss off and level Tripoli or Damascus while forcing the Palis in Gaza to flee to Egypt.
Israel, on the other hand, was described by the late General Alexander Haig, who was a Supreme Commander of NATO and a US Secretary of State, as "the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require even one US soldier, cannot be sunk, is the most cost-effective and battle-tested, located in a region which is critical to vital US interests. If there would not be an Israel, the US would have to deploy real aircraft carriers, along with tens of thousands of US soldiers, which would cost tens of billions of dollars annually, dragging the US unnecessarily into local, regional and global conflicts. All of which is spared by the Jewish State."
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General John Keegan, a former chief of US Air Force Intelligence determined that Israel's contribution to US intelligence was "equal to five CIAs."Senator Daniel Inouye, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and former Chairman of the Intelligence Committee said "The intelligence received from Israel exceeds the intelligence received from all NATO countries combined."