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What Deterrent Against An Anonymous Nuclear Attack?

Thinking about the unthinkable....
Should terrorists anonymously attack Israel with any sort of nuclear weapon, the Jewish State would instantly retaliate with its presumed nuclear arsenal. Systems are widely assumed to be in place for the automatic obliteration of Israel’s enemies. Muslim capitals, oil fields—and holy sites—would be wiped off the map, to use a favorite Iranian regime expression.

Should terrorists anonymously attack the United States with any sort of nuclear weapon, the Obama administration, in contrast with Israel, would probably respond with press conferences, vows to hunt down and bring to justice the perpetrators of the war crime, fact-finding commissions and investigations, and national prayer meetings and healing sessions, including compulsory, politically correct quotations from the Koran.

In light of the above, which country would Islamist Iran be most likely to attack first after acquiring nuclear weapons—Israel or the United States?

The answer, in this reporter’s opinion, is the U.S. Aiming for a “world without America and Zionism,” the fountainhead of fascistic political Islam believes it can (a) create a nuclear shield for the steady, stage-by-stage isolation and destruction of Israel by Iranian proxies Hamas and Hezbollah and ally Syria, and (b) develop nuclear weapons for a stunning—and anonymous—sneak attack on the U.S. that would bring “the Great Satan” to its knees.

Israel, which Iran likes to call “the Little Satan,” may indeed be a “one-bomb country,” as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, referring to its size—about the same as New Jersey. But the Iranian Islamists ironically regard the tiny Jewish State as more dangerous than its big, superpower ally.

Put differently, in a way that many Americans might appreciate, Iran sees Israel as the late crime boss John Gotti and the U.S. as Jimmy Carter; Bibi, as another Harry Truman, in terms of his willingness to drop the bomb; and Barack Obama, as the new Neville Chamberlain—an appeaser leading his nation and its allies to catastrophe.

Jonathan Braun is a journalist and communications consultant who has written extensively about national and international affairs for a wide range of traditional and new media publications.