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In reply to the discussion: Nuclear watchdog agency says Iran not cooperating [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)the United States, the first of which became operational just before Israel launched the '67 War. The Israelis later threatened to use these weapons on Egypt and Syria during the '73 war, when the conventional forces of those countries nearly overran Israeli positions in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. After the Israelis issued their threat of first-use, the US reluctantly resupplied lost F-4s and TOW missiles from NATO stocks in Europe, tipping the balance in that war back in favor of Israel. That was nuclear blackmail.
Yet, Americans are supposed to be worked up to the point of starting another optional Mideast war against Iran. which has no nuclear weapons, stolen from us or otherwise, a country that that has never realistically threatened to use nuclear weapons?
I'd say, it's Israel's nuclear weapons that pose the actual threat to world peace and US national security. We tolerate that only because we have to, and our position with regard to Iran is largely due to Israel's continued nuclear blackmail and repeated threats of first-use if we don't act against Iran in their stead. Americans have grown tired of being blackmailed by Israel's criminal threats of first-use of nuclear weapons.