Israel Launches strike against Irans Nuclear Programme

There are billions of potential refugees.

Reports on several sites say that hypersonic missiles have hit sensitive sites in Israel ie. intellegence/satellite bases and Mossad. Is this likely or just bluster. If it's true and they are 'blinded' then the US will be called in to save the day.

Yes, in 2017, what was at the time the "Mother Of All Bombs" was used against an ISIS-K complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB

The Israelis have neither confirmed nor denied having nuclear weapons. They have a policy of strategic ambiguity - a policy known in Hebrew as "amimut". They put a greater emphasis on superiority of their conventional forces than NATO ever have. If the Cold War had become hot, NATO would've used tactical nukes to stop the Soviets from getting beyond West Germany - if you believe the plot of the 1983 film "The Day After".

Article on wall st journal Israel is running out of interceptor missiles the need to end this war soon iran has 1000s of missiles they need the USA to get involved America is the only country with 50ooo bombs that could destroy Iran's underground nuclear base bombs and missiles that Israel does not have access to .

Iran is ruled by religious fanatics they will not stop the war unless there's a peace agreement or they have no choice also some of Iran's missiles are still getting thru . If we go back to world war two. There's no way the Germans could win America has the industrial capacity to produce weapons to a greater extent than any other country Iran will run out of bombs and missiles long before America does

Likud led by Bibi arent interested in promoting peace either. By the way you said previously Iran supporting Russia was endangering Europe. What hoop will you jump through to defend Israel doing business with the Russian military. Will you deny it or will you run away as you usually do when you are asked questions you'd rather not answer. With this in mind I am still waiting for you to explain why Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine. I mean to use your own argument it's a poor attempt at genocide given how the nuclear armed Russia could kill far more Ukrainans if it really was intent on committing genocide.

I have also read that, but I think that is because they are explicitly designed that way, not because of some intrinsic characteristic. So you could expect a prototype nuclear bomb might not have such protections.

(As I said, I don't think this is a realistic scenario anyway. I do think there might be a risk of radiation leaks if they bomb reactors as part of attacking their nuclear programme.)

Some big strikes hitting Israel now, including a hospital. A "criminal act" the Israelis say, completely deaf to the irony.

Either way, looks like all out war and I suspect the Iranian regime is finished now

They have not helped Ukraine much if irc. Have been following it for a while as it interested me a fira bit (googled a few of the stories I remembered below) and the Israeli record is not stellar to say the least, especially in context of what they or their arms industry could have done for Ukraine in another, much better, world e.g. if allowed to even sell Ukraine a portion of their outputs or help with weapons development for Ukraine, as we can all see its products are very impressive.

The govt. of Israel prefers to sell these to the dictatorship of Azerbaijan (more money, and won't annoy Putin). Turkey, also a bit of a fence sitter on it despite its own NATO membership, has probably done more overall to help Ukraine IMO.

If IRC the Biden admin. requested for those Patriots (originally theirs) to be sent and it was blocked for a long time I think. Don't think Israel was using them.

Bibi was a friend of Putin and he certainly wasn't going to anger both Putin and MAGA for nothing by giving Biden a big win and providing serious firepower to Ukraine at the time. He's waited till Biden is out of office to do it quiety when his (maybe now former friend after Oct. 7th) Putin/Russia now seems an utterly broken reed in the ME, and less able to do anything to harm Israel in response.

The US requested some even older Cold war era US air defence systems in Israel (Hawk) which are obsolete in context of Israel's Iron Dome, and impressive modern air force be sent and if irc. Israel blocked that too.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-rebuff-us-request-for-old-anti-aircraft-missiles-to-give-to-ukraine/

Germany (I think) requested to be able to send spike anti tank missiles which I think development of might have been cofunded with Israel (?) by a few European countries who manufacture and use them, and Israel blocked that as well. As we know Germany doesn't exactly have a load of weapons sitting on the shelf to send Ukraine so inability to send its main modern anti tank weapon must have been a bit of a blow but shure they are Germany and they have to take any and all kickings in the bollox from Israel quietly for ever more due to the history.

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/israel-rejects-spike-missile-ukraine-germany-russia

Also, there is the fact that Israel never sanctioned Russia, and has provided safe haven and escape-port for any money and oligarchs that had to flee Western countries that implemented the economic sanctions. I mean even likes of Switzerland and of course all the EU member neutrals fully implemented these but not Israel, beacon and caped hero of Western Democracy etc. (more like "Homelander" from the Boys in my mind - lol).

I understand and even sympathise with self interested and selfish path they took on Ukraine given Russia's more serious involvment in the ME back in 2022-2023 and possible ability to hurt them badly somehow, but presenting Israel as this great assister of Ukraine and defender of democracy there in your posts is just wrong at best and a lie at worst isn't it?

A nuclear arms race in the Middle East is not a good idea, no matter who you are.

If Iran gets a bomb, other nations like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt will want one. Then nations like Qatar, UAE, Bahrain wil want one. It would be a cluster ****.