Why would a tiny country started in 1948 risk nuclear war for us all?

Question

Just two weeks ago they flew squads of attack jets to threaten Iran. Now Iran fired some missles to demonstrate they will strike back if attacked. It was Israel, not Iran, that bombed Syria and Iraq with preemptive strikes about alleged WMDs. This has been mismanaged and looks out of control. Preemptive strikes are not the American way.

Answer 1

dude,did you miss survival 101 for small countries.weakness is the beginning of the end !

Answer 2

It is self defense.  They are one friend who has demonstrated that will do their own fighting.   I admire their air power and am confident that they will react in meaningful way with appropriate and violent force.

Answer 3

ya we need to generate some bogus intel before the war can officially start

Answer 4

Gas: Iran is an aggressor against the US. They have killed thousands of American warriors, and civilians. They have killed fewer Israelis. It is the US that is most damaged by Iran.

Answer 5

Because an islamofascist regime has threatened more than 3 times to 'wipe it (Israel) off the map'.

Answer 6

You are all wrong.  Any country has the right to defend itself, no matter how it is done.

Answer 7

What difference does when a country was started have when dealing with what they're doing with their weapons?

Answer 8

Because they figure they cant lose because an evil god lied to them saying that.

Answer 9

first of all chances of that are slim, but also keep in mind it isnt a nation, but one leader

Answer 10

Israel is not the problem. Iran is. They are the ones threatening Israel and the US with nuclear weapons. We will need Israel's help in the oncoming conflict. With our combined might, the Iran forces stand no chance.

Answer 11

When they were working on a nuclear bomb in iraQ in the 1980s Israel shut down the program by bombing a nuclear reactor in Iraq. Israel may have to do the same in Iran.

It is the duty of a good Muslim to get the Holy city of Jerusalem back, it is now in the possession of the infidel ( this is the city where Mohamed ascended into heaven, they can't compromise on this issue ) One way of achieving this goal is to destroy the state of Israel with suicide atom bombs in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities. , Therefore Israel can't permit a radical Muslim state like Iran to have an atom bomb.

My guess is the USA. will have to form an unholy alliance with Israel and China and invade Iran, Afganistan, and Pakistan. we will then allow the Chinese to colonise these lands ( and Iraq) and help themselves to the oil there. By the time China gets done violating those Muslim's human rights, the other Muslims of the world will have learned a lesson and start behaving themselves.

Answer 12

First, Israel has not proved to be a good neighbor, and looking back to 1948, why did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin EVER think that Jews and Arabs could live together peacefully?  When Israel was given land for their State, they systematically kicked most Palestinians out of homes and business and the disenfranchised became refugees that no country wanted.  Those people are STILL looking for a place to call HOME, while Israel has confiscated land beyond their State for security reasons.  It gave all Middle-easterners an excuse to hate Jews, while the Jews enjoyed financial and military support from the USA.  I know Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists, but to Palestinians,  and others, they are Patriots...I worry now, that Israel will make the first move against Iran and the US will back them up...another war that could escalate into WW III.  That should worry everybody!

Answer 13

hahaha you're stupid.

Israel is one of the best countries in the world...really, for the area it is in? Look it up.

The surrounding countries are jealous and angered that people have so many rights in Israel.

Arabs have more rights in Israel than they do in their own countries! That's a fact!

Israel is threatened everyday (for no reason) and has to fight for it's survival because the psycho Arabs can't STAND a non-Arab state existing.

Israel has ALWAYS struck AFTER they've been struck first.

So stick that up your butt you anti-American<bleep!> :)

Answer 14

Iran has publicly declared its intention to destroy Israel.  Sounds like a declaration of war to me.  If Mexico said the same thing about the US,started a highly visible program to develop nuclear weapons, and then launched missles to display their ability to strike US soil, would you advocate sitting back and waiting?

Answer 15

How can you say with a straight face after Iraq that preemptive strikes are not the American way?  Bush has threatened Iran several times recently.  Israel is just the more willing-to-take-action arm of the Bush administration.