Israeli Terror Against Families, Even Their Own

[Happy Monkey]

Your "Erm..actually no" is based on a misreading of my post, as If I were somehow blaming Israel or the US for having nukes, or blaming Israel for winning the war. I was merely stating facts.

Erm..actually no. We have that superpower's nukes, which we developed in order to survive...

And Israel developed theirs in order to survive. Israel has the full support of the US, and everything that entails, so in a major war between Israel and the Arab world, US nukes, if used, would be in support of Israel. In addition, if the US does not want to use nukes, Israel has some of its own.

And Israel kicked ass in the 1976 war in order to survive.

Of course. Thereby demonstrating that despite geography they are the big ones. That's my point.

The amazing crap that gets handed out in schools these days labelled "history" is both--amazing and crap.

Non sequitur.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Thereby demonstrating that despite geography they are the big ones

Until Iran has some too? Then will things be "even"?

I doubt it...Iran has already announced their policy towards Israel. Even a glazed-crater response from the US would be cold comfort to any Israeli survivors.

The strategic utility of nukes is a very complex issue. and the outcome of the '67 war may be more due to this than anything else. It certainly wasn't due to any help from the US; the only US military unit to see action in the 1967 war was USS Liberty.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

It certainly wasn't due to any help from the US; the only US military unit to see action in the 1967 war was USS Liberty.

Right. They won in 1967 without nukes, and without much US support. Now they have nukes, they've been militarizing more and more, and their relationship with the US is stronger. Plus, as your link says, their military is much better trained and prepared. You are strengthening my point. Israel is bigger.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

...as your link says, their military is much better trained and prepared. You are strengthening my point. Israel is bigger.

That doesn't make them bigger, it only makes them smarter.

Will Iran be bigger than it is now when it goes nuclear? Is it bigger because it's currently cozy with Russia and China?

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

Will Iran be bigger than it is now when it goes nuclear? Is it bigger because it's currently cozy with Russia and China?

Yes.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

Until Iran has some too? Then will things be "even"?
...

Since when did Iran become an Arab state?

Originally Posted by CIA Wold Factbook

Ethnic groups:
Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1%

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by BigV

Since when did Iran become an Arab state?

Who said they were? I didn't.

Maybe you'll like this map better.



Yellow bearing labels is Arab or other Muslim states hostile to Israel. Red and blue are the original Palestine.

Red being the Jewish Palestinian State and blue being Transjordan, the Arab Palestinian state.

Oh...the red is the Jewish Palestinian state before 1947 when the UN subtracted Gaza, the West Bank and a piece of Golan to make...erm...well

..another Arab Palestinian state. That must be that "two-state solution" people are always talking about...Palestine *and* Jordan.