This topic is more political posturing presented under the guise of "discussion". Why would Arab countries take retribution on Israel? The Iranians are the ones bombing the Arabs, not Israel. The arrogance and ignorance of some of these comments are condescending to the Arab victims and assumes that the Arab world is one monolithic group. The Gulf Arabs dislike the Iranian state. They are not going to take on Israel to help Iran. Iran has previously attacked the Gulf Arab countries. The Gulf Arab countries are prosperous and relatively well developed now. None of them want to see their developed countries sent back to the stone age because of a war with Israel. The Gulf Arabs have contained Israel and are quite capable of managing their relationship without the direction of western know it alls. Israel is nothing to them in the general scheme of things. Nor do they care much for the Palestinians. Iraq fought a brutal war with iran and still carries a grudge. They will not die for Iran now, no matter how much they dislike Israel. Only westerners are obsessed with supporting the Iranian regime. They are too stupid to understand that the Iranians are Shiite, while most Arabs are Sunni. The sight of western diaspora Iranians in the hundreds of thousands rallying on behalf of Israel must upset these westerners even more. The people taking to the streets in the west to protest against Israel and the USA are the extremist leftists, Pakistanis and Bengalis. The millions of Syrian refugees who are in the west know that Iran kept Assad in power and the Iranian proxy army Hezbollah, was used by Assad to kill Syrians. Arabs won't shed any tears if israelis die in a conflict with iran, but they certainly are not going to defend Iran with anything other thn lip service. The Samson option is misinterpreted The explanation offered in this thread of what the doctrine is, is based upon the incorrect interpretation of Kelsey Davenport, an anti nuclear arms activist.
