Our Nov 18 Weekly Email Introducing "The Samson Option" as covering from the Roman Empire to the present & future

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Subject: The Impending Iran-Israel Nuclear Holocaust: As Predicted in The Samson Option by Pulitzer-Prize Winner Seymour Hersh – Dec 13 Mtg.
From: Reading Liberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
Date: Sat, November 18, 2023
To: To Each of Our 229 Members One-By-One
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To Each of Our 229 Members One-By-One – for reasons explained in the 4 postings in Sec. 2 of www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org.


Dear Friends,

Our next meeting is Wed Dec 13 – 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm MST via Zoom.


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HOW ISRAEL’S 7 NUCLEAR MISSILES IN 1973 PREVENTED ISRAEL FROM BECOMING THE ANSWER TO A TRIVIA QUESTION – WHAT WAS ISRAEL?

As described in the Original Proposal (viewtopic.php?f=770&t=2425&sid=a5b49a37 ... 797d567ff2) – Seymour Hersh’s The Samson Option described, inter alia -

(A) how prior to the 1973 attack by Egypt, Israel had a policy that if it ever had fewer than 24 hours to go until annihilation it would fire its nuclear missiles which incidentally were AIMED AT RUSSIAN CITIES RATHER THAN ARAB CAPITALS,

(B) how the Israeli cabinet believed they were within 24 hours of annihilation by Syria during the 1973 war because Israel had been rationing its ammunition vis-à-vis which Henry Kissinger had been refusing to re-supply Israel for 12 months,

(C) how the Israeli cabinet decided to fire their nuclear missiles AFTER firing a telex to Kissinger giving him a “heads up” on what would be “going down” within a matter of minutes,

(D) how Kissinger responded immediately that the Israelis should begin firing their conventional ammunition “as if there were no tomorrow” and that American re-supply planes would take off at dawn, and

(E) how the Israelis did, the Syrian lines stabilized, and Israel did not become the answer to a trivia question (What WAS Israel???).


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THE SAMSON OPTION AND THE IMPENDING IRAN-ISRAEL NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST

The book description on its dust jacket (available at viewtopic.php?f=770&t=2424&sid=05905b37 ... 866eb84203) ends with –

“The message of The Samson Option is stark: The next Middle East war might very well be nuclear.”

Of course the title’s reference to Samson, a Biblical character who destroyed his enemies while committing suicide, analogizes to both –

(1) the 1973 Israeli policy of firing its nukes before “turning out the lights,” and

(2) what Israel may soon feel forced to do vis-à-vis Iran.

Accordingly, our Dec 13 meeting will focus on the entire imbroglio – including the U.N.’s original 1948 “Two State Solution” based on the U.N.’s careful year-long assessment of who owned what land (Palestine’s population, per the U.N. assessment, was only 58.3% Muslim) - which Israel accepted and was immediately invaded by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.

Of course, Seymour Hersh’s 1991 prophecy did not occur in “the next Middle East War” which got underway before his book was even published – America’s 1991 invasion of Iraq FROM THE ISLAMIC HOLY GROUND OF SAUDI ARABIA which, as we have studied many times, radicalized Osama bin Laden and resulted, inter alia, in his issuing FIVE FATWĀS --

(1) In August 1996, he issued a fatwā entitled “Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places.”

(2) In February 1998, he issued a fatwā entitled “Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders.”

(3) In December 1998, he issued a fatwā entitled “The Nuclear Bomb of Islam.”

(4) In 2002, nine months after 9/11, he issued a fatwā requiring all of his followers to nuke 4 million Americans -- a fatwā about which the Founding Dean of Harvard U’s Kennedy School of Government, Graham Allison, wrote a famous book entitled “Nuclear Terrorism” about how to deal with the fatwā. [NB: His prescription for all of the world’s nuclear powers to “lock down” every iota of fissile material and to prevent any non-nuclear powers, such as Iran, from enriching fissile material, was widely criticized as impractical and, in any event, has not been implemented.]

(5) By 2005, Osama had issued a revised fatwā requiring all of his followers to nuke 10 million Americans -- as was painfully clear from Tim Russert’s 5/29/2005 Meet the Press interview about how to deal with the fatwā with former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman 1987-1995), U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN and then-current Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman) and Messrs. Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton (Chair and Co-Chair of The 9/11 Commission) -- during which they essentially recommended following Dean Graham Allison’s prescription which, as previously noted, was NOT done.


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DEC 13 FOCUS BOOK – AVAILABILITY

The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by Pulitzer Prize Winner Seymour Hersh (Random House 10/27/1991 – 319 pages sans notes & index – the price has mushroomed since our Oct 15 Original Proposal from $19.00 Hard Copy ($23.43 Paperback) + shipping or $7.99 Kindle from Amazon.com BUT AMAZON’S KINDLE PRICE IS NOW ONLY $12.99 AND AN INTERNET SEARCH SHOULD LOCATE A COPY FOR MUCH LESS THAN AMAZON’S CURRENT $66.38 PRICE).

Neither the Salt Lake COUNTY Library nor Salt Lake CITY Library has available any copies of “The Samson Option.”


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DEC 13 MTG INFO –

Wed Dec 13 – 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm MST via Zoom.

Please RSVP by hitting your Reply Button and typing RSVP.

There is nothing further you need to do such as any special Zoom training. We will send all RSVP’s a few days in advance a URL and meeting name/password.


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We look forward to seeing/hearing each of you on Wed Dec 13!!! Please be well!!!

Your friend,

John K.

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