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  Here is a bunch of wood and a hammer. Other accessories you already have.
context: I think that the suspected Israeli nuclear arsenal would become the confirmed Israeli nuclear arsenal >
  
  Look into the Samson Option. Retired Israeli brigadier general Itzhak Yaakov referred to this operation as the Israeli Samson Option. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Arab forces were overwhelming Israeli forces and Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert and ordered 13 atomic bombs be readied for use by missiles and aircraft. >
  
  Golda Meir would have used the nukes if she had to.
  Her real goal was to get the US to notice her posturing so Israel could get resupplied.
  We only got to this point because Kissinger told Meir not to make a preemptive strike despite intelligence being high that an attack was coming. >
  
  Interesting to contemplate how 1973 would have played out if Israel had launched a preemptive strike.  The IAF had a very difficult time dealing with Soviet SAMs during the war:
  
  Official Israeli Air Force losses of the Yom Kippur War number at 102 aircraft, including 32 F-4 Phantoms, 53 A-4 Skyhawks, 11 Dassault Mirages, and 6 IAI Sa'ars
  
  I doubt that Israel would have achieved anywhere near the level of success of the 1967 war opening air strikes. >
  
  Israeli aircraft have gotten much better. Soviet Era anti-aircraft installations in widespread use by Arab countries did not. S-300, for example, failed to protect sites in Syria from Israeli airstrikes, and that was before they started fielding F-35s. >
  
  Oh sure.  Israelis got better very quickly after '73 and demolished Syria's air defenses and air force in '82.  Iran can't defeat Israel in a war -- this is all just posturing. >
  
  Iran knows it can't defeat Israel and won't attack except maybe through proxies. Israel won't strike Iran because it will be costly. Iran has an air defense system that is designed specifically to defend from US fighters. Even the most hawkish war pigs in congress stopped short of an Iran invasion. Israel does not have the man power for a large scale invasion of Iran. It is all posturing. Neither country wants to go to war. I hope Israel doesn't try to drag the US into another Middle-East conflict. US citizens are tired of war. >
  
  It's not only Israel that desperately wants to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons...
  The Saudis and even the UAE would certainly provide assistance to stop it. (The Saudis have recently acquired cruise missiles from China ... capable of hitting anywhere in Iran)
  And it really doesn't matter how costly it is. Israel has planes to burn, what it can't afford is a crazed islamist regime with nukes in its region. >
  
  Is it Tuesday already? >
  
  My thoughts exactly, you tell the day of the week by these threats, 
  Iran threatens Israel = Tuesday.
  North Korea threatens South Korea = Thursday.
  Russia threatens NATO = Monday. >
  
  Don't forget China Threatens Taiwan Wednesdays >
  
  Dinner is spaghetti on Wednesday as well. It’s good to have a schedule. >
  
  It's Friday, we'll be having fish sticks... >
  
  Do you put them in your mouth? >
  
  Yes I love fish sticks >
  
  Than you must me a gay fish. >
  
  Ever notice that countries that actually bomb shit don't threaten to bomb shit,
  they just bomb shit >
  
  Good point. I've never heard of a US official threatening ISIS leadership if they keep doing terrorist shit. They just send a hellfire through the roof of their car and call it a day. >
  
  You should look up some Mattis quotes >
  
  Pretty sure Iran threatens to annihilate Israel twice a week for the past 20 years. >
  
  Only the past 20? It’s been like this since the ‘79 Revolution >
  
  Don't they say the same thing about if Israel doesn't attack their nuclear sites? >
  
  They need a war to stop their own people uprising, basically.