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Originally Posted by Zinja
Not when there are nuclear weapons involved. Unless the Arab countries too have nuclear weapons, as much as they hate Israel, when Israel and Iran start exchanging nuclear weapons the last thing they would want is meddle and have the next nuclear missile headed your way.
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I'm not saying that the Arab nations would meddle, I am saying that Israel would have to nuke them or retain enough weapons to nuke them. Think, if Israel loses 1-1.5 million people from Iranian nukes in an exchange, loses all immigration (the primary cause of the increases in their Jewish population), and suffers major flights of capital... they are going to be in a seriously weakened position
after a war with Iran. Meaning that they will either have to destroy their neighbors in order to make sure they can't take advantage of that, much the way that the Soviets and the US were prepared to reserve nukes for China in the event of an exchange with each other.
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The Arabs by now know very well that if you don't mess with Israel, Israel leaves you alone. Saudis have virtually been unscathed all along because they have basically kept their noses off Israel issues. In two of Israel's wars Israel gave express warnings to both Syria and Jordan that if they dont meddle they will be left alone, but if they do they will be given same treatment given to their enemies. True to their word, where they were left alone people they saved their necks but where they meddled ah, the rest is history.
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Those wars weren't going to be devastating to Israel if Israel won... a nuclear war with Iran would be. And so Israel couldn't afford to be so magnanimous.