Prof. Theodore Postol: 'ISRAEL is the big NUCLEAR THREAT in the Middle East, Israel's military is ON THE ROPES.'
Prof. Theodore Postol: 'ISRAEL is the big NUCLEAR THREAT in the Middle East, Israel's military is ON THE ROPES.''You have a leadership in Israel that is willing to push their country into a situation where their own military leadership is telling Netanyahu we are on the ropes. We cannot do any more. We are at the limit of what we can do.
We’re losing soldiers at a high rate. We’re a small country. We cannot sustain taking these territories. They have to hold these territories too, because you’re dealing with hostile populations.
They shouldn’t have been there. They shouldn’t have been put there by their leadership. That was Netanyahu’s fault. And the military didn’t stand up to him. So it’s in some sense their responsibility as well.
But Israel is on the line. And now, if things escalate, which I’m afraid they’re likely to do, the survival of Israel could eventually come into question.
And the amount of damage that the Iranians are in a position to do to Israel is enormous. The capabilities of their ballistic missiles are extraordinarily greater than what we initially saw, even in the June 2025 war.
I was estimating, based on data I had collected, that the Iranians could do significant but modest damage to Tel Aviv if the war escalated. Well, I was wrong, because there was a whole generation of newer, more capable missiles that are impossible, I want to underscore, impossible to intercept.
They are not close to being subject to interception, and they have bigger warheads that are more destructive. And Iran has large numbers of them, and they’re more accurate, which means that they can focus them on doing more heavy damage on targets that are more valuable to the Israelis.’
—Former US Chief of Naval Operations Adviser at the Pentagon, Prof. Theodore Postol
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