re: #134 _RememberTonyC

go after iran’s proxies … hamas in gaza and hexbollah in lebanon. simple.

Not sure it’s that simple. The best deterrent against a nuclear attack is making sure your adversary is certain of a devastating nuclear response. Therefore, Israel would need to be very clear ahead of time that they would use nuclear weapons against Lebanon and/or Gaza if any attack was traced to those areas. Even if they carried out the threat, so what?

(1) Tel Aviv is destroyed with hundreds of thousands of casualties.
(2) Beirut or some other Lebanese city is destroyed, with hundreds of thousands of casualties, only a tiny percentage of whom are Hizbollah. Obviously, Lebanon claims Israel committed unprovoked genocide.
(3) Iran suffers zero casualties.

Did I miss anything?