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ZIONISM’S SAMSON OPTION: “If Israel can’t exert complete command and control over the whole world, no one will”<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SOTN Editor’s Note: SECRET DOCS EXPOSE \u201cSAMSON OPTION\u201d: These are the major power cities around the world currently targeted by Israel with nuclear attacks should they face dire existential threats<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The Shocking Everything Destructive
\nIsraeli \u201cSamson Option\u201d!<\/h1>\n

By Claudio Resta | VT<\/p>\n

Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin stated: Israel has warned that if Operation Rising Lion fails, the alternative would be the \u201cSamson Option,\u201d which includes the direct use of nuclear weapons against Iran and Yemen and, if necessary, the detonation of dirty bombs inside Israel itself as a suicide plan.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, Israeli ministers are threatening to launch nuclear strikes against European capitals if the European Union countries support the two-state solution and recognize the State of Palestine, which they have done so far.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The Samson Option is indeed part of Zionist military doctrine.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

It even has an entry on Wikipedia:<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201dFor the 1991 book, see The Samson Option: Israel\u2019s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the biblical narrative, Samson died when he grasped two pillars of the Temple of Dagon, and \u201cbowed himself with all his might\u201d (Judges 16:30, KJV).<\/em><\/p>\n

The Samson Option (Hebrew: \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05e8\u05ea \u05e9\u05de\u05e9\u05d5\u05df, romanized: b\u2019rerat shimshon) is Israel\u2019s deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a \u201clast resort\u201d against a country whose military has invaded and\/or destroyed much of Israel. <\/em><\/p>\n

Commentators also have employed the term to refer to situations where non-nuclear, non-Israeli actors have threatened conventional weapons retaliation.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0This has made it difficult for anyone outside the Israeli government to describe the country\u2019s true nuclear policy definitively, while still allowing Israel to influence the perceptions, strategies and actions of other governments.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

However, over the years, some Israeli leaders have publicly acknowledged their country\u2019s nuclear capability: Ephraim Katzir in 1974, Moshe Dayan in 1981, Shimon Peres in 1998, and Ehud Olmert in 2006.<\/span><\/span> During his 2006 confirmation hearings before the United States Senate regarding his appointment as George W. Bush\u2019s Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons, and two years later, in 2008, former US president Jimmy Carter stated the number of nuclear weapons held by Israel to be \u201c150 or more\u201d.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

In his 2008 book The Culture of War, Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history at Israel\u2019s Hebrew University, wrote that since Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons, any talk of Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons in Israel can lead to \u201carrest, trial, and imprisonment.\u201d<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Thus Israeli commentators talk in euphemisms such as \u201cdoomsday weapons\u201d and the Samson Option.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Nonetheless, as early as 1976, the CIA believed that Israel possessed 10 to 20 nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

By 2002, it was estimated that the number had increased to between 75 and 200 thermonuclear weapons, each in the multiple-megaton range.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Kenneth S. Brower has estimated as many as 400 nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

These can be launched from land, sea and air. <\/span><\/span>This gives Israel a second strike option even if much of the country is destroyed.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In 1991, American investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning political writer Seymour Hersh authored the book Samson Option: Israel\u2019s Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

In the preface of the book he writes: \u201cThis is a book about how Israel became a nuclear power in secret. It also tells how that secret was shared, sanctioned, and, at times, willfully ignored by the top political and military officials of the United States since the Eisenhower years.\u201d<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Deterrence doctrine<\/span><\/span> Main articles: Nuclear strategy, Deterrence theory, and Mutual assured destruction<\/span><\/span> Although nuclear weapons were viewed as the ultimate guarantor of Israeli security as early as the 1960s, the country avoided building its military around them, instead pursuing absolute conventional superiority so as to forestall a last resort nuclear engagement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The original conception of the Samson Option was only as deterrence.<\/span><\/span> According to American journalist Seymour Hersh and Israeli historian Avner Cohen, Israeli leaders like David Ben-Gurion, Shimon Peres, Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan coined the phrase in the mid-1960s.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

They named it after the biblical figure Samson, who pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who had captured him, mutilated him, and gathered to see him further humiliated in chains as retribution for his massacres of their people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

They contrasted it with the ancient siege of Masada where 936 Jewish Sicarii committed mass suicide rather than be defeated and enslaved by the Romans.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In an article titled \u201cLast Secret of the Six-Day War\u201d the New York Times reported that in the days before the 1967 Six-Day War Israel planned to insert a team of paratroopers by helicopter into the Sinai.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Their mission was to set up and remotely detonate a nuclear bomb on a mountaintop as a warning to belligerent surrounding states.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

While outnumbered, Israel effectively eliminated the Egyptian Air Force and occupied the Sinai, winning the war before the test could even be set up.<\/span><\/span> Retired Israeli brigadier general Itzhak Yaakov referred to this operation as the Israeli Samson Option.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Israeli Ambassador informed President Nixon that \u201cvery serious conclusions\u201d may occur if the United States did not airlift supplies.<\/span><\/span> Nixon complied.<\/span><\/span> This is seen by some commentators on the subject as the first threat of the use of the Samson Option.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Seymour Hersh writes that the \u201csurprising victory of Menachem Begin\u2019s Likud Party in the May 1977 national elections \u2026 brought to power a government that was even more committed than Labor to the Samson Option and the necessity of an Israeli nuclear arsenal.\u201d<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Louis Ren\u00e9 Beres, a professor of political science at Purdue University, chaired Project Daniel, a group advising Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

He argues in the Final Report of Project Daniel and elsewhere that the effective deterrence of the Samson Option would be increased by ending the policy of nuclear ambiguity.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In a 2004 article he recommends Israel use the Samson Option threat to \u201csupport conventional preemptions\u201d against enemy nuclear and non-nuclear assets because \u201cwithout such weapons, Israel, having to rely entirely upon non-nuclear forces, might not be able to deter enemy retaliations for the Israeli preemptive strike.\u201d<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Authors\u2019 opinions<\/span><\/span> Some have written about the \u201cSamson Option\u201d as a retaliation strategy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Israeli reporter Ari Shavit writes of Israel\u2019s nuclear strategy:<\/span><\/span> Concerning anything and everything nuclear, Israel would be much, much more cautious than the United States and NATO.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Concerning anything and everything nuclear, Israel would be the responsible adult of the international community.<\/span><\/span> It would well understand the formidable nature of the demon and keep it locked in the basement\u201d<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

David Perlmutter<\/span><\/span> In 2002, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past, and they have ensured against it.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Masada was not an example to follow\u2014it hurt the Romans not a whit, but Samson in Gaza?<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens?<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away\u2014unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans\u2014have the power to destroy the world.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The ultimate justice? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

In his 2012 book<\/span><\/span> How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III, the American Jewish author Ron Rosenbaum described this opinion piece as \u201cgoes so far as to justify a Samson Option approach\u201d.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In that book, Rosenbaum also opined that in the \u201caftermath of a second Holocaust\u201d, Israel could \u201cbring down the pillars of the world (attack Moscow and European capitals for instance)\u201d as well as the \u201choly places of Islam.\u201d<\/span><\/span> and that the \u201cabandonment of proportionality is the essence\u201d of the Samson Option.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

[dubious \u2013 discuss]<\/span><\/span>Martin van Creveld<\/span><\/span> In 2003, a military historian, Martin van Creveld, thought that the Second Intifada then in progress threatened Israel\u2019s existence.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Van Creveld was quoted in David Hirst\u2019s The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003) as saying:<\/span><\/span> We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at<\/span><\/span> Rome.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Most European capitals are targets for our air force.<\/span><\/span> Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: \u2018Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.\u2019<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I consider it all hopeless at this point.<\/span><\/span> We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible.<\/span><\/span> Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We have the capability to take the world down with us.<\/span><\/span> And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

However, according to Aluf Yitzhak Yaakov, who was the mastermind behind the \u201cSamson Option\u201d, it was unlikely Israel could have even targeted Europe[citation needed], as Israel did not yet have other measures like bombs or missiles to carry the nuclear payload.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In 2012, the German writer G\u00fcnter Grass published the poem \u201cWas gesagt werden muss\u201d (\u201cWhat Must Be Said\u201d) which criticized Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons program.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Itamar Yaoz-Kest \u200b\u200bpublished a poem entitled \u201cThe Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the<\/span><\/span> German Author\u201d which addresses Grass by name. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It contains the line: \u201cIf you force us yet again to descend from the face of the Earth to the depths of the Earth\u2014let the Earth roll toward the Nothingness\u201d.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Israeli Jerusalem Post journalist Gil Ronen saw this poem as referring to the Samson Option, which he described as the strategy of using Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons for \u201ctaking out Israel\u2019s enemies with it, possibly causing irreparable damage to the entire world.\u201d \u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Samson Option is the name some military analysts use to indicate Israel\u2019s deterrence strategy, which calls for a counterattack with extensive use of nuclear weapons as a \u201clast resort\u201d in the event that military attacks by a foreign nation threaten its existence. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The term has also been used by some commentators to refer to hypothetical non-nuclear counterattacks by non-Israeli actors, such as Yassir Arafat and Hezbollah.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The name is a reference to the biblical figure of Samson, who pushed the pillars of a Philistine temple, causing the roof to collapse and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who had captured him, shouting \u201cLet Samson die with all the Philistines\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It i<\/span><\/span><\/span>s perfectly consistent with the genocidal messianic ideology prevailing in Israel,,,,,, and with the spiritual state of desperatio, not so much strategic as metaphysical, that<\/span><\/span> it is the spiritual condition not only of the damned but of Satan himself, their princeps.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

What mobilized Bibi to threaten the Europeans with the Samson Option?<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The fact, says Dugin, that In the United States, a deep and irreversible split has occurred within the MAGA (Make America Great Again) camp.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The vast majority of Trump supporters oppose American involvement in a war alongside Israel against Iran.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Only neoconservatives like Lindsey Graham support the war.<\/span><\/span> Therefore, Operation Samson Option could turn into a real apocalypse.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In the United States, a deep and irreversible split has occurred within the MAGA (Make America Great Again) camp.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

The vast majority of Trump supporters oppose American involvement in a war alongside Israel against Iran.<\/span><\/span> Only neoconservatives like Lindsey Graham support the war.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank to Maurizio Blondet<\/p>\n

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