Original Proposal

[johnkarls]

Originally posted by johnkarls » Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:33 am – 244 views in Sec. 3 (Possible Topics for Future Meetings) before being transplanted here.


I propose that we read The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh (Random House 10/27/1991 – 354 pages - $19.00 Hard Copy ($23.43 Paperback) + shipping or $7.99 Kindle from Amazon.com)

The current War in Israel demonstrates IMHO that history is repeating itself.

The 1973 War featured Syrian tanks rolling through Israel because Israel was rationing its ammunition because Henry Kissinger had refused to re-supply Israel following the 1967 War.

Israel, at that time, had only 7 nuclear missiles but they were the reason why Israel did NOT become the answer to a trivia question – what WAS Israel!!!

Our group has never read The Samson Option even though we have invoked it some two dozen times since 4/27/2008.

One of the most recent was this past January when our focus book was “Bibi: My Story” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and our two “Short Quizzes” were entitled –

(1) The Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), and

(2) The Abraham Accords and Realpolitik.

[They and their Suggested Answers are available at viewforum.php?f=723&sid=6cc7af5c17f509e ... 946b70284c.]

FOR A PEEK AT “THE SAMSON OPTION” SINCE AMAZON NO LONGER PROVIDES A SUMMARY, THERE FOLLOWS BELOW TWO “TEASER QUESTIONS” AT THE END OF THE FIRST SHORT QUIZ COMPRISING A PREVIEW OF THE SECOND SHORT QUIZ.

BTW, for America’s Mainstream Media to ponder – it has always been recognized that Global Warming (aka Climate Change) can be solved by occasional small nuclear wars since they throw up significant debris into the earth’s atmosphere which takes a long time to settle.

[My apology to the victims of the impending Israel/Iran Nuclear Holocaust for the seeming insensitivity of this observation but something needs to be done to awaken the American Mainstream Media!!!]


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TEASER QUESTIONS FOR THE SECOND SHORT-QUIZ (on the Abraham Accords)

1. Is it any wonder that the “Gulf State Six” (aka “Gulf Cooperation Council” -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates) should turn for a protective “nuclear umbrella” to Israel which shares the same existential threat from Iran?

2. Has Israel been a nuclear power since before the 1973 Arab-Israeli War?

Hint re Q-2 –

ENTER IN THE PRIMITIVE SEARCH BOX IN THE UPPER-RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF EVERY FRAME OF THIS BULLETIN BOARD – “Samson” w/o the quotation marks – and 24 items dating back to 4/27/2008 are listed for ready access.

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THE FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM THE LAST ITEM DATED 4/27/2008 -

Pulitzer-Prize winner Seymour Hersh's “The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Option and American Foreign Policy” (Random House 10/27/1991) described

(a) Israel’s nuclear-weapons program,

(b) how prior to the 1973 attack by Egypt, Israel had a policy that if it ever had fewer than 24 hours to go until annihilation it would fire its nuclear missiles which incidentally were AIMED AT RUSSIAN CITIES RATHER THAN ARAB CAPITALS,

(c) how the Israeli cabinet believed they were within 24 hours of annihilation by Syria during the 1973 war because Israel had been rationing its ammunition vis-à-vis which Henry Kissinger had been refusing to re-supply Israel for 12 months, and

(d) how the Israeli cabinet decided to fire their nuclear missiles AFTER firing a telex to Kissinger giving him a “heads up” on what would be “going down” within a matter of minutes.

Kissinger, according to Seymour Hersh, responded immediately that the Israelis should begin firing their conventional ammunition “as if there were no tomorrow” and that American re-supply planes would take off at dawn. The Israelis did, the Syrian lines stabilized, and Israel did not become the answer to a trivia question (What WAS Israel???).

So if Israel followed the philosophy of General/President Charles de Gaulle when he withdrew France from NATO and developed his own nuclear weapons that America’s nuclear umbrella is NOT credible and only French nuclear weapons would stop Russian tanks from rolling to the Atlantic, what makes Hillary*** think that the “Gulf State Six” will be more gullible than the French and the Israelis???

**********End of 4/27/2008 Quotation**********


[*** During Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Presidential Campaign, she had advocated placing Israel and the Gulf State Six under America’s “Nuclear Umbrella.”]