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Originally posted by Foppezao
Originally posted by Office 4256
Originally posted by Magnum007
They wouldn't stand a chance... That little piece of land vs. Europe... HAHAHAHAHAHA... It's like Sponge Bob vs. Goliath...
Interesting read though... Made me smile for once...
Magnum
Your comment assumes that Europe would actually fight. The EU and European NATO countries have converted their armed forces from armies to extensions of nation-building and aid-distribution organizations. the majority of NATO nations have sent their troops to Afghanistan with orders to fire in force protection mode only. Not to mention that in about twenty years, Europeans will be minorities in their own nations.
The OP presents an unlikely scenario, but if it happens, Israel would be victorious; a sad but necessary outcome.
I dont understand what you think is necessary about it? Apart from that you forget almost every single country has special forces, and a very decent air force outnumbering Israel.With Spain , Italy, France and UK there are about 6 aircraft carriers..A population of about 500 million people, imagine the army with a draft, that might still happen.Every citizen got a letter( me aswell at least over here) that although we are not called apon now, there still is a possibility that might happen in the future and then that is mandatory. I dont think in such a case, or if the Russians might invade that we only shoot back when fired upon..Also not with nuclear weapons which we rely more on becauseour conventional forces are smaller..dream on...
[edit on 20-3-2010 by Foppezao]
Originally posted by illusive man
reply to post by Yissachar1
israeli's are starting to eat palestinian kids, those carnivors
good thing you brought this to attention kind sir,
LONG LIVE THE IDL
Defender of the state of Israel which does no wrong
[edit on 14-3-2010 by illusive man]
Originally posted by Bhadhidar
Originally posted by Magnum007
... It's like Sponge Bob vs. Goliath...
Interesting read though... Made me smile for once...
Magnum
But Goliath...Lost.
And David was Hebrew.
Still smiling?
Originally posted by Bhadhidar
Originally posted by Magnum007
... It's like Sponge Bob vs. Goliath...
Interesting read though... Made me smile for once...
Magnum
But Goliath...Lost.
And David was Hebrew.
Still smiling?
Originally posted by ntech
It's really too bad for the Israel bashers here. The sad truth for them is that Israel has laid up several hundred nukes and has ways to deliver them. Whih unfortunately means that Hamas and Hezbollah have already lost.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Here we go again.... IT wasn't the U.S. who gave Israel it's nuclear arsenal, and the capability to make them.... IT WAS FRANCE....
A couple years ago I posted a thread in these forums were at least one high ranking government official of France was saying that perhaps it was time for them to also give nuclear weapons to Middle Eastern countries.....
Anyway, my point is that some people talk bs without knowing the facts.....
Anyway, my point is that some people talk bs without knowing the facts.....
US Gave Weapons Grade Uranium to Israel
How US Weapons Grade Uranium was Diverted to Israel
Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations
By Grant Smith
May 16, 2010 "Antiwar" May 10, 2010 -- The 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is underway at UN Headquarters in New York.
A working paper calls for a nuclear-free Middle East. It would require member states of the NPT to "disclose in their national reports on the implementation of the resolution on the Middle East all information available to them on the nature and scope of Israeli nuclear facilities and activities, including information pertaining to previous nuclear transfers to Israel." On May 6, 2010, the Government Accountability Office (formerly known as the General Accounting Office) released the previously secret 1978 report "Nuclear Diversion in the U.S.? 13 Years of Contradiction and Confusion" [.pdf]. It fills in important historic gaps about weapons-grade uranium diversions from the U.S. to Israel.
How US Weapons Grade Uranium was Diverted to Israel
Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations
May 16, 2010 "Antiwar" May 10, 2010 -- The 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is underway at UN Headquarters in New York. A working paper calls for a nuclear-free Middle East. It would require member states of the NPT to “disclose in their national reports on the implementation of the resolution on the Middle East all information available to them on the nature and scope of Israeli nuclear facilities and activities, including information pertaining to previous nuclear transfers to Israel.” On May 6, 2010, the Government Accountability Office (formerly known as the General Accounting Office) released the previously secret 1978 report “Nuclear Diversion in the U.S.? 13 Years of Contradiction and Confusion” [.pdf]. It fills in important historic gaps about weapons-grade uranium diversions from the U.S. to Israel.
“Nuclear Diversion in the U.S.? 13 Years of Contradiction and Confusion” investigates the period between 1957 and 1967 when the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) received over 22 tons of uranium-235 – the key material used to fabricate nuclear weapons. NUMEC’s founder and president Zalman M. Shapiro was head of a local Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) chapter and a sales agent for the Defense Ministry of Israel in the U.S. In the early 1960s the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began documenting suspicious lapses in security at NUMEC’s plant at Apollo, Pa. In 1965 an AEC audit found NUMEC could no longer account for over 200 pounds of highly enriched uranium. Subsequent estimates spiraled to almost 600 pounds.
The GAO was chartered by Congress to investigate four allegations about what happened to the uranium. The first was that “the material was illegally diverted to Israel by NUMEC management for use in nuclear weapons.” This was a result of early AEC and FBI investigations into the activities of Zalman Shapiro. The second theory “the material was diverted to Israel by NUMEC management with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)” came from the CIA’s silence and demonstrated lack of interest in the entire matter. The final theories explored by GAO were more general, that “the material was diverted to Israel with the acquiescence of the United States Government” or “there has been a cover-up of the NUMEC incident by the United States Government.”
GAO solicited all available information developed by the CIA, FBI, Department of Energy, and AEC, but was “continually denied necessary reports and documentation … by the CIA and FBI.” GAO attempted to fill in gaps or outright refusals to cooperate by directly interviewing FBI special agents. The GAO also intended to make the report public, in order to respond to growing public concerns. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, who requested the inquiry, was assured six months before it was issued that only the most sensitive areas in the report would be classified. The CIA and FBI insisted that the entire report be classified at the “secret” level over the objections of Dingell, who said, ”I think it is time that the public be informed about the facts surrounding the … affair and the possible diversion of bomb-grade uranium to Israel.”
N. Korea accuses U.S. of helping Israel develop nuclear weapons
"As an illustration, the U.S. has long actively promoted and cooperated with the Israeli nuclear armament plan," the newspaper said. "They decided to provide assistance to Israel's nuclear development program. Then the U.S. dispatched nuclear experts to Israel and transferred highly enriched uranium, the key ingredient for nuclear weapons, to them."
The Release of Mordechai Vanunu and US Role in Israel's Nuclear Arsenal
Israel has long stated that it would not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East, which is a rather disingenuous commitment given that US planes and warships have been bringing nuclear weapons into the region since the 1950s. Israel is generally believed to have become a nuclear power by 1969. The newly elected President Richard Nixon and his chief foreign policy adviser Henry Kissinger privately endorsed Israel's program that year.
They quickly ended the regular US inspections of Israel's Dimona nuclear center. This was of little consequence, however, since these "inspections" were pro forma and not taken seriously. (President Lyndon Johnson demonstrated his lack of concern over the prospects of Israel becoming a nuclear power by rejecting calls that one of the early major weapons sales to Israel be conditioned on Israel'signing the NPT.)
The Nixon administration went to great lengths to keep nuclear issues out of any talks on the Middle East. Information on Israeli nuclear capabilities was routinely suppressed. The United States even supplied Israel with krytrons (nuclear triggers) and supercomputers that were bound for the Israeli nuclear program.8
Britain gave Israel plutonium, files show
Britain secretly supplied Israel with plutonium during the 1960s despite a warning from military intelligence that it could help the Israelis to develop a nuclear bomb, it was disclosed last night. The deal, made during Harold Wilson's Labour government, is revealed in classified documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and obtained by BBC2's Newsnight programme.
The documents also show how Britain made hundreds of shipments to Israel of material which could have helped in its nuclear weapons programme, including compounds of uranium, lithium, beryllium and tritium, as well as heavy water.
Documents show that the decision to sell plutonium to Israel in 1966 was blocked by officials in both the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office, who said: "It is HMG's policy not to do anything which would assist Israel in the production of nuclear weapons. " But the deal was forced through by a Jewish civil servant, Michael Michaels, in Tony Benn's Ministry of Technology, which was responsible for trade in nuclear material, according to Newsnight.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Here we go again.... IT wasn't the U.S. who gave Israel it's nuclear arsenal, and the capability to make them.... IT WAS FRANCE....
Originally posted by ken10
Was it the US, UK and France that gave Israel Nukes or was it fellow jews who had infiltrated the governments to the highest positions of those countries that gave Israel Nukes
Documents show that the decision to sell plutonium to Israel in 1966 was blocked by officials in both the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office, who said:
"It is HMG's policy not to do anything which would assist Israel in the production of nuclear weapons." But the deal was forced through by a Jewish civil servant, Michael Michaels, in Tony Benn's Ministry of Technology, which was responsible for trade in nuclear material, according to Newsnight.
Originally posted by nophunThat and the whole politicaltheatrics.net being anti-Semite thing
Originally posted by Yissachar1
These anti-Israel threads have reached yet another new low
Whats the headlines going to be soon?? "Israelis eat the young of Palestinians" ???
What bothers me more than anything is that people believe this gunk
en.wikipedia.org...:_peaceful_use_of_nuclear_energy
The third pillar allows for and agrees upon the transfer of nuclear technology and materials to NPT signatory countries for the development of civilian nuclear energy programs in those countries, as long as they can demonstrate that their nuclear programs are not being used for the development of nuclear weapons.
Originally posted by centurion1211
Just for the sake of common sense, and as I pointed out previously, if the missiles are in flight and you have no defense, it doesn't matter who has more missiles. Israel is also a very small country, so at some point the number of missiles you can aim at it is a moot point.
And do I also need to point out that anyone nuking Israel for any reason will also kill muslims across the middle east with fallout due to prevailing winds.