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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] israel invades gaza strip, begins ground offensive
« on: July 18, 2014, 02:53:20 PM »Too be fair it sounds like they're only going to use that for when it has a ton of nations come after them.
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In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Arab forces were overwhelming Israeli forces and Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert and ordered 13 atomic bombs be readied for use by missiles and aircraft. The Israeli Ambassador warned President Nixon of "very serious conclusions" if the United States did not airlift supplies. Nixon complied. This is seen by some commentators on the subject as the first threat of the use of the Samson Option.[18][19][20][21][22]They threatened Nixon with it all the way back in the 70's. And the government has only gotten more extreme since.
Seymour Hersh writes that the "surprising victory of Menachem Begin's Likud Party in the May 1977 national elections... brought to power a government that was even more committed than Labor to the Samson Option and the necessity of an Israeli nuclear arsenal."[23]