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By David Singer, published 6/6/2012Until the PLO and Hamas unequivocally revoke and abandon these racist policies Israel has no other course but to insist that recognition of Israel is a non-negotiable demand.
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Posted by stevenlmeyer, Thursday, 7 June 2012 11:01:29 AM
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See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
Even if Israel's genocidal neighbours do succeed in destroying the land based nuclear deterrent Israel can still strike from the sea.
How likely is the Samson scenario?
I'm getting more and more pessimistic. Hatred for Jews* is now so deeply embedded in the cultures of Israel's neighbours that I question whether reason can prevail.
Israel's first targets would most likely be the Middle-East's oil and gas infrastructure. Around a quarter of the world's oil pumping capacity disappearing in a radio-active cloud should do things to the price of oil. Now might be a good time to buy a bicycle and invest in the stocks of companies that have oil reserves outside the Middle-East.
Shipping would have to find an alternative to the Suez canal. Last time the canal was closed my home town, Cape Town, boomed.
You probably would not want to invest in real estate in Cairo, Alexandria, Tehran or Damascus. In fact you probably would not want to live anywhere near these cities.
Every now and then I drink a toast to David Ben Gurion who, back in the fifties, had the foresight to fund Israel's nuclear program. The possession of nuclear weaponry probably saved Israel during the Yom Kippur war of 1973. Israel was literally running out of ammunition. When the Americans realised that Israel was about to launch a nuclear strike on Cairo they organised a massive resupply operation**.
Ever since then the Americans have been anxious to ensure that Israel is never again in a position where it feels it has to resort to nukes.
There is no doubt that having so much of the world's oil pumping capacity within range of your nuclear strike force plus constant references to Samson gives you a certain amount of leverage.
*Please don't bore me with your denials on this point
**See "The Samson Option" by Seymour Hersh
http://www.amazon.com/The-Samson-Option-Israels-American/dp/0394570065