the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East

Israel, a state born out of Jewish terrorism and the only country in the Middle East to possess nuclear weapons, 150 or so.

This is the same Israel that has hated its neighbours and fought wars and invaded parts of their neighbours starting with the land they wrestled from the Palestinians and formed their own country on in 1948, the US first found out that Israel was developing nuclear weapons after an overflight of a U-2 spy plane photographed a nuclear reactor.

During the 1973 Yom Kippur War when the Syrians were about to enter Upper Galilee Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized the arming of missiles and the placing of eight nuclear armed F-4 Phantom II's at Tel Nof Airbase on 24 hour alert and as many nuclear missile launchers at Sedot Mikha Airbase operational as possible, they're initial targets including the Egyptian and Syrian military headquarters near Cairo and Damascus.

This forced the US to launch Operation Nickel Grass bringing supplies to the IDF to help them win the war against the Arab armies conventional and retaining control of the Golan Heights and Sinai that they had seized in 1967 and still cling on to to this day.

When Iraq attempted to develop nuclear weapons the Israeli's briefly teamed up with the Iranians flying sorties against Iraqi sites, Operation Opera launched by the Israeli Air Force in 1981 knocked out a major Iraqi reactor supplied by France proving that Israel was to remain the only nuclear power in the region.



In 1991 when Iraq launched nearly 40 conventional Scud missiles at Tel Aviv Saddam Hussein vowing to wipe out the city the Israeli's threatened that if they didn't stop they'd be looking at "an Iraq without a Baghdad."

Where they threatening a nuclear strike on Baghdad?

The Americans managed to keep them back by attacking 100 targets selected by the IDF.

Today Israel has missiles that can reach targets from over 7,800 km away from their launch point being able to targets any city in the Arab and Muslim world, and considering how Israel was formed and their foreign policy from day one is it really smart to give them this power?

Even though tough Iranian generals have recently been saying things like they can wipe Israel from existence in 11 days the truth is that is if Israel sits back with its thumb up its ass, and if Iran attacks first they will give Israel the excuse to prevail, if Israel attack Iran first (its 80 or so nuclear facilities) then Iran will prevail in a much more dangerous way and most probable way the US could help the Israeli's to stop them pushing the nuclear button is to blow the shit outta the Iranians conventionally.