"So great was the threat to Israel’s survival that Golda [Meir, Israeli Prime Minister] reportedly prepared a doomsday scenario: she ordered the country’s nuclear arsenal be made ready ... in case Israel faced defeat."

And we worry about Iran having nuclear weapons? With these paranoid fanatics already possessing them? Yeah no wonder Iran doesn't want to play nice with the UN.

wtf

Perhaps if she had threatened the capability and willingness beforehand, the Egyptians and Syrians might have thought twice about invading in the first place.

However, having said that- this was a very interesting article. In the States, Israel's past wars aren't discussed very much in the classroom (or weren't, at least, when I was a student), but the impression I always had was that of most of the conflicts being rather one-sided in Israel's favor- if only because of how we arm and fund them. Even today, I very much doubt Israel couldn't go toe-to-toe with it's neighbors, but perhaps such thinking is naive.