Mutually assured destruction is an effective deterent according to history. Then again extremists did not control a nuclear arsennal so the situation is different. One difference is that many muslims as we have heard from protestors the last couple days in New York would like to wipe Israel from the map, whereas Israel is less extreme in there beliefs and although they could take any middle eastern nation down with their military, they are not of the mindset to do that. It is not of their belief system to bring "terror to the non-believers"
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