Netanyahu talking about the possibility of American cities getting nuked...

Netanyahu talking about the possibility of American cities getting nuked

Who is threatening who?

Because it seems to me, that’s Israel threatening the US again…

THE SAMSON OPTION

Most people have never heard of it, but Israel’s “Samson Option” is not a myth. It’s a real strategic doctrine that suggests if the state of Israel were ever facing destruction, it would take the rest of the world down with it.

The name comes from the biblical Samson, who brought down the temple on himself and his enemies.

In practical terms, it refers to Israel’s policy of nuclear ambiguity; never confirming, never denying, yet maintaining an arsenal capable of striking not only its regional enemies, but also what Israeli strategists once called the “pillars of the world”, the great capitals of Europe.

The very nations that fund, arm, and defend Israel, the same West that calls it an “ally”, are also within its nuclear targeting range should it ever choose to pull the final lever.

It’s presented as deterrence, a last resort, a “you destroy us, we destroy everything” insurance policy, but even the existence of such a doctrine tells you something profound about the mindset behind it: not partnership, not shared values, but conditional loyalty, built on fear.

Does this sound like the strategy of a friend? Or the warning of a hostage-taker?

Netanyahu threatening the world with annihilation unless the entire world cooperates with it, sounds to me like blackmail.

If that is so, then it explains why so many states fall in line when Israel says jump.

It also explains why Trump jumps when told to.

ISRAEL, SOUTH AFRICA & THE SHADOW NUCLEAR ALLIANCE

During the Cold War, while the world was distracted by East and West, another alliance quietly took shape at the far end of the map, between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa.

Two pariah states, both isolated, both seeking self-reliance, and both obsessed with the same ambition: nuclear deterrence.

Israel provided advanced missile technology; the blueprints that would become South Africa’s RSA rockets, near-identical to Israel’s Jericho systems.
In return, South Africa supplied what Israel lacked: vast quantities of uranium ore, the fuel for Dimona’s hidden reactor.

Declassified South African minutes from 1975 even recorded Shimon Peres offering “three sizes” of warheads to P.W. Botha — language so blunt that Israel later claimed it was mistranslated.

Four years later, in 1979, a U.S. satellite detected a mysterious double flash over the South Atlantic, still officially unexplained, yet many analysts believe it was a joint Israeli–South African nuclear test.

And right in the middle of this shadow network came Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer turned Israeli spy.
In 1984–85 he stole thousands of top-secret documents including satellite data, Soviet and Arab nuclear intelligence, and possibly information relating to South Africa’s weapons program.

He wasn’t spying for money alone; he was feeding a state that had built its survival on nuclear ambiguity and strategic deception.

By 1991, South Africa dismantled its six nuclear bombs and opened its program to international inspectors; the only nation ever to do so.

But Israel never followed suit. It kept its arsenal, its silence, and its Samson-style promise of annihilation if ever cornered.

The two programs may have parted ways, but the pattern remains: secrecy, blackmail, deterrence and the quiet understanding that what was forged in the shadows still shapes the balance of fear today.