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worldstarcountry
Israel's problem and one they are acutely aware of is that they are a small, densely populated target, there borders are therefore arguably more
easily defended BUT what get's through is far more likely to cause massive damage to civilian's than in a larger country and there is almost no where
for them to run if the going get's bad.
Not really a problem when almost every citizen you have is a trained soldier and can in such times be called up and in fact Israel on a war footing
does have the means to expand it's borders very rapidly in a push if it was to come down to it, albeit illegally in the eyes of the international
community.
That is why the Iron Dome defence system is so important to them, even more now that many ideologically opposed states have at least some nuclear
capability even if that is only to make dirty bomb's.
This mean's that to stay safe Israel have to keep there finger on the trigger at all time's and be ready to strike first even up to and including use
of there possibly over 200 nuclear weapon's on any target that they perceive as definitely about to do the same to them and also we have to remember
that IF Israel is attacked and overrun or otherwise about to lose many of it's own missiles will then automatically launch and strike death blows to
many of the nations that have threatened it, Iran is definitely on that target list as is Syria and even though on friendly term's with other nations
Israel is always watching for the poison in the cup and the knife behind the back when dealing with them.
Other than NK and China's current aggressive stance the middle east remains one of the most dangerous places in the world and with the advent of the
Nuclear threat to the region any such conflict could have sever global consequences.
A small scale nuclear war could in fact lead to up to two billion death's globally by throwing up a pall of dust into the atmosphere that would cut
down on light getting through and reduce photosynthesis in plants worldwide.
A large scale one would be a global extinction level event.
But you have to understand WHY Israel has to have this capability and there own MAD policy, it is essential to there survival in an otherwise
overwhelmingly hostile region of the world, I do not agree with the treatment of Palestinians when that is said however AND there are an absolutely
HUGE number of Jewish people that feel the same but remember regardless the leaders of Israel do not have the luxury of playing the morally good guy's
or the nice guy's when it comes down to there survival, that said many including among the few remaining Holocaust survivors and there family's have
been critical with some even disowning the state of Israel for it's policy's out of disgust and a sense of betrayal after what they suffered.
But I mostly agree with Israel except for that one consideration, they definitely have a right to be home - I am related though a gentile - and they
have to survive and to become strong enough never again - NEVER AGAIN - to be bullied, persecuted or massacred.
That said genetical analysis has shown a great many of the Palestinian people's, Christian and Islamic (there were Jewish Palestinian's before the
founding of the state of Israel) are ALSO of JEWISH Descent, even many of there Family Names are of Jewish Origin, so kicking them off there land
because they are seen as non Jew's just to settle Migrant Jews from Russia is basically hideously wrong, it is Jew persecuting Jew and yes they have
lost there religion but that tends to happen when you are invaded again and again and again and again over eon's.
Look at the lasting harm that TESTS done by the former Soviet Union, The West and of course China is still having on the entire world, think how many
people may have had disease and death caused by those tests even long, long after they were carried out.
www.bbc.co.uk...
And of course this lasting radioactive fallout still floating in the upper atmosphere all these decades later affects EVERYONE on the planet, human,
animal and plant life.
Now imagine if a real war occurred, how long would it stay up there given that this is still up there decades after those tests, and how much more
dense would the atmospheric light reducing haze of poisonous and radioactive dust particles be, at that altitude it is somehow suspended due to it's
tiny particulate size and is too far up to garner much water so seldom, very seldom indeed ever form's a rain drop's core particle.
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