Israel’s Nuclear Deterrent Not Credible Enough, Says Expert – Potential Targets Revealed

Israel is one of nine nuclear powers in the world and has 90 nuclear weapons, according to the report estimates conducted by nuclear weapons researcher Hans M. Kristensen and the American think tank

Federation of American Scientists.

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Israel’s nuclear deterrent was not credible or intimidating enough to prevent the Iranians from attacking Israel with just over 300 missiles and drones.

This weekend’s attack was the first time Iran has directly attacked Israel.

– The next time someone says that nuclear weapons stop other people from attacking, remember that reality shows the opposite, wrote coordinator Tuva Krogh Widskjold in ICAN Norway X.

– Nuclear weapons are not a guarantee of security. On the other hand, these weapons of mass destruction make tense situations much more dangerous, she wrote further.

Norwegian-Israeli Bjørn Hermann Ueland who was the IDF spokesman for Scandinavia.

So Ueland has a good knowledge of how the Israeli army (IDF) thinks and how they behave in emergency situations. He believes that it is completely out of the question for Israel to go to nuclear weapons in a war against Iran.

– Iran has the ability to fire rockets that go to Israel, but Israel has the ability to stop those rockets. The last button they press is a nuclear attack. There is no danger in that, says Ueland to Nettavisen.

99 percent of more than 300 missiles and drones were shot down by air defense systems. No lives were lost in the Iranian attack on Israel.

Ueland believes that Israel’s nuclear facilities and nuclear reactors were among the targets of the failed attack on Iran on Saturday night and Sunday night.

It is believed that Iran’s nuclear facilities could be Israeli targets for a retaliatory attack on Iran.

Iran claims that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but the West – and Israel in particular – fears that the Iranians will develop their own nuclear weapons.

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Defense Chief Herzi Halevi warns that Israel will respond this weekend to missile and drone attacks from Iran against Israeli targets.

– Personally, I think that Israel will hit back at Iran. But I think they will do it in a way that will not harm themselves, says Ueland in an interview with Nettavisen.

Israeli defense and security officials are carefully considering how to respond to an attack this weekend from archenemy Iran.

Ueland says that Israel has many ideas to consider before making a final decision on how they might go back in Iran.

– Israel is torn between several elements, he says.

– One of them is that they have to show the Arab world that Israel is strong. If Israel appears weak, we will be an open target. A weak Israel creates an opening for attack. Dissent within Israel was misunderstood by Hamas because Israel was weak, Ueland said, referring to the October 7 terrorist attack.

– The second is that Israel must evaluate the possible effects of an attack on Iran, what are the advantages and disadvantages. It is important for Israel that Iran understands that the oil plants, power plants and water plants are at risk from military attacks, he says.

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– The third one is that the outside world and the West are not interested in the growing conflict between Israel and Iran. There are elections soon in the United States, and President Biden does not want a situation with an increase in oil prices and inflation, he says.

A military retaliatory attack on the oil country of Iran could trigger great uncertainty in the market and thus affect international oil prices.

– The fourth is that the extremists in political Israel want revenge. They want to show the voters that they are strong and active, says Ueland.

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– Crushed by the terrorists

Prime Minister Netanyahu is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, but the trial against him has been postponed due to the ongoing war in Gaza.

– Netanyahu is reasonable, but weak. He is weak because he wants to stay in office as head of government. As long as he is prime minister, the trial against him will be suspended. He only reports to the court that he is busy with war and cannot appear. He would rather postpone the trial forever, says Ueland.

– That is his strategy, but the price for keeping the government is to satisfy the terrorists. It is obvious that they are putting pressure on him, he says.

Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is one of several war hawks in Netanyahu’s government. Ben-Gvir has recently called for Israel to go “berserk” against Iran.