Here is my comment that wound up getting wiped twice along with many others -

Third time posting this after all the top posts seemed to have been wiped for no explicable reason.

As far as I can tell, I had breached no rules aside from pointing out facts.

Mods, if you can tell me which part of this comment has infringed on any rules, let me know. As far as I can tell, everything I have written is factual and backed by sources I have provided.

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Israel is the only state with nukes that has threatened to attack population centers all over the world (including neutral/allied non-belligerent nations i.e. Russian/European capitals).

That is the definition of terrorism.

We blame North Korea and Iran for trying to develop nuclear weapons yet here's Israel with hundreds of warheads threatening to end everybody.

Not even North Korea has ever claimed they would nuke non-belligerents and especially not allies like China when faced with an existential threat.

Hersh includes two quotations from Israeli leaders. He writes that a "former Israeli govt official" with "first hand knowledge of his government’s nuclear weapons program" told him: We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next time we’ll take all of you with us.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Samson_Option:_Israel%27s_Nuclear_Arsenal_and_American_Foreign_Policy

In 2003, a military historian, Martin van Creveld, thought that the Al-Aqsa Intifada then in progress threatened Israel's existence.[29] Van Creveld was quoted in David Hirst's The Gun and the Olive Branch (2003) as saying:

We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: 'Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.' I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.[30]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option#Writers.27_comments_on_the_strategy

Also, the comment that followed it -

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The book in full is quite clear and refers to Americans in general -

http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/SamsonOption.pdf

A longer excerpt goes as follows -

For Ben Gurion, the lesson was clear: the Jewish community in America was unable to save Israel.

"You Americans screwed us," one former Israeli government official said, recalling his feelings at the time. "If you hadn't intervened, Na sser would have been toppled and the arms race in the Middle East would have been delayed. Israel would have kept its military and technological edge. Instead, here comes the golf player Ike, dumb as can be, saying in the name of humanity and evenhandednes s that 'we won't allow colonial powers to play their role.' He doesn't realize that Nasser's reinforced and Israel's credibility is being set back."

The Israeli, who has firsthand knowledge of his government's nuclear weapons program, added bitterly: "We g ot the message. We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next time we'll take all of you with us."

Hersh himself also isn't one to embellish or lie - his reputation is quite stellar as an investigative journalist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh

the second is by a writer who has no affiliation with the government who didn't even finish out his mandatory military service time let alone determine Israeli military doctrine.

And yet he is still a highly regarded military history teaching the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_van_Creveld

He also has close contact with and even quotes an Israeli general and all of these quotes line up with other historical facts and quotes.