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Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

— Stephen M. Walt

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

— Salman Rushdie

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

— Bashar al-Assad

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries. What has already been exposed about the weapons Israel is holding can destroy the region and kill millions.

— Mordechai Vanunu

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

— Robert M. Gates

Israel is an independent country with a large army, and it has the ability to do what it thinks is right.

— Ariel Sharon

Everyone knows that Israel has nuclear weapons, but no one is talking about it. The world doesn't want nuclear weapons - not in Israel, not in the Middle East and not anywhere in the world.

— Mordechai Vanunu

I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world.

— Moshe Katsav

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

— William Hague

✗Opposing Perspectives

Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible.

— Noam Chomsky

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.

— Moshe Sharett