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In reply to the discussion: Which country is most dangerous with a nuclear weapon? [View all]IbogaProject
(6,036 posts)12. The USA and our suicide pact ally war partner
I'd say Israel as they blatantly celebrate that they will extinguish life on Earth if they feel threatened all while provoking hostile reactions.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/154608
Israeli poet Itamar Yaoz-Kest, a Holocaust survivor, has penned a public "letter-poem" in reply to the "poem" in which German Günter Grass accused Israel of "endangering the already fragile world peace."
The letter-poem was published on journalist Ze'ev Galili's blog, in Hebrew, under the name: "The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author." It addresses Grass, who has admitted to being a member of the Waffen SS during World War II, by name.
The "letter-poem" starts thus:
Danger,
I want to be a danger,
I want to be a danger to the world,
so that after my destruction, not a single blade of grass will remain on the face of the Earth,
or a single blade of grass for Gunther Grass's pipe,
upon the Earth where, since I was born, I pose a danger to the world.
Because it is my right!
It is my right to live or die while annihilating my annihilators, without riding again as a crying-boy in a transport train,
Into the world-vacuum, while placing my head in the lap of a mother who is disappearing into the fresh air of the Land of Wotan,
and the urine tin darts dark-yellow specks onto the walls of the cabin like gunshots that spray
a yellowish-reddish liquid from besides the train guards, and among them maybe the soldier G.G., also, wearing a steel helmet.
Later in the poem, Yaoz-Kest issues what appears to be a statement of intent along the lines of "the Samson Option":
And so, as the strong light of the Land of Israel enters my home, I turn on the radio and cannot help listening to the sermons of the ayatollahs of Iran and to the words of the respected Iranian minister, who shows the map of the Land of Israel with his two hands, to say: "It is so small Within six or seven days it can be erased from the map", or in your language: "ausradieren". And here I am listening to the sermons of the imams in the mosques of the Land of Israel and the Arab lands as they declare "ausradieren!", but they are always referring to me and not to you, Gunther Grass.
And yet, there is a right reserved only to us Jews (if indeed any human on Earth has this right): to be destroyed and to take the weary and sated world with us to the non-existence, along with its wondrous libraries and heart-stirring tunes just so, after we descend to the grave, while the ground emits radioactive rays to all four winds.
Indeed we have the right! It is mine, too!
For it is the right of the Nation of Israel to finally shut the gates to the world after it leaves this place (not of its free will!), and we have the right to say, at the price of the 3,000 year old fear: "If you force us yet again to descend from the face of the Earth to the depths of the Earth let the Earth roll toward the Nothingness."
The Samson Option taking out Israel's enemies with it, possibly causing irreparable damage to the entire world has been floated by Israeli strategists including Ariel Sharon, as a last-ditch option if Israel faces annihilation.
Israel's Interior Ministry has banned Grass from entering Israel following his "letter-poem."
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Trump clearly wants to get his greasy mitts on that button. Here's hoping the generals keep blocking him!
Blues Heron
Yesterday
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This. This is the answer, right here. We're the people we warn others about.
ms liberty
Yesterday
#10
I think that Trump believes that if he uses a nuke, the rest of the world will bow down to his every whim. He wants to
Doodley
Yesterday
#5
From an outside perspective, I'd say that the only country that has used one in wartime
MineralMan
Yesterday
#6
No one ever mentions that it would be possible to purchase a nuclear weapon too.
waterwatcher123
Yesterday
#13
I have a feeling the 🍊🐖💩 is going to use the Nuke and get us in world war 3.
kimbutgar
Yesterday
#14
Iran, due to their alliance and support of terrorist groups like Hamas & Hezbollah
MichMan
Yesterday
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