Jiang says Israel does not need nuclear weapons for ordinary fighting and would only use its ultimate option if the existence of Israel itself were under direct threat.
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Existential Threat
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"And Israel doesn't need to use nuclear weapons. Again, the second option is, like, if the existence of Israel is threatened, then they will..."
"...you're inviting the regime to feel that well we have an existential threat to our existence and it's not happened so in effect we..."
"...think that the Brits at that point saw that as an existential threat? And that's why they were going that hard?"
"...to scare people away from that is this now representing an existential threat do you think to the business model of the gcc states..."
"...the Samson option is if they feel like they're at an existential threat of being annihilated as a state, that they will then nuke..."
"...up Iran to make it more manageable Iran is facing an existential threat and they should uh respond very differently and more aggressively when..."
"...ultimately it was threatened with existence. Hannibal proved to be an existential threat to Rome and that's why everyone became united and made the..."
"...have said is they see Iran possessing nuclear weapon as an existential threat to the safety of Israel. So this is a no -no...."
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