| Nuclear Masada by Steve Payne 
  
   Author 
    
    says: what if Israel really had lost the Six-Day War in the 
  
  fictional scenario depicted in 1969 by authors Richard Z. Chesnoff, Edward 
  
  Klein and Robert Littell? Please note that the opinions expressed in this 
  
  post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). 
     
      In 1967,  
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           icon to follow us on Facebook.speaking in Brooklyn, NYC on this day 
        
        a representative of the Israeli Government-in-Exile issued a stark warning 
        
        to the Arab States that had conquered the Jewish nation ~ further nuclear 
        
        bombings should be expected after the previous day's detonation at the 
        
        Port of Alexandria. 
 "The research here could have been better. Dayan 
          
          ordered that the dozen or so nukes Isreal had were to be placed on the 
          
          Jericho missiles. Needless to say Isreal would not have waited, until 
          
          being overrun, before the nukes had done their thing. Instead the capitals 
          
          of both Egypt & Syria would have been nuked, along with ten other targets 
          
          throughout the Middle East. in an attempt to ensure Isreal would have 
          
          survived such an invasion. Alas that probably would have prompted nuclear 
          
          retailiation by the USSR, which would have ensured WWIII take place. In 
          
          doing so the nuclear holocaust, that would have followed, would have seen 
          
          both the USSR & USA destroyed along with hundreds of millions of people. " 
          
          - reader's commentThe third Arab-Israeli War had begun with the 
        
        devastating pre-emptive Egypt aerial offensive which destroyed the Israeli 
        
        Air Force on the ground. Israel never recovered momentum from the loss of 
        
        decisive air supremacy at the beginning of combat operations, despite a 
        
        last minute air lift by the US Government following the unprovoked Arab 
        
        assault on the USS Liberty.
 
 From the pivotal moment when the IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan was 
        
        executed in Tel Aviv, it was determined (in Dayans own prophetic words) 
        
        that the "Third Temple Had Fallen1". The surviving Israeli 
        
        leadership responded by executing a desperate end-game plan: a nuclear 
          
          masada, aptly named after the biblical siege in which Jewish 
        
        defenders had committed mass suicide rather than endure capture by the 
        
        Romans.
 
 Setting aside the original plan to detonate the weapons in the face of the 
        
        invading Arab armies, instead "the boys were let loose2". 
        
        Nuclear weapons were smuggled onto submarines in the mediterranean, the 
        
        first surfaced on June 11th in Alexandria, the largest seaport in Egypt.
 
        
        
       
      
 
     
     Author 
    says in the 1969 alternate history "If Israel Lost the War" by Richard 
    Z. Chesnoff, Edward Klein and Robert Littell, Israel was defeated in the Six 
    Day War, Sirhan Sirhan went home to share in his people's victory 
    celebrations, and Robert Kennedy passed unscathed through the kitchen of The 
    Ambassador Hotel and went on to be elected President. In this variant, we 
    modify some of the points of divergence in that famous story. 1) Dayan was 
    allegedly about to make this announcement in 1973 at a low point in Israeli 
    fortunes during the Yom Kippur War 2) Golda Meir allegedly made this 
    announcement after the assassination of Israeli athletes in Munich, 
    dispatching undercover Mossad officers to secretly kill PLO agents. To view 
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    Today in Alternate History web site. 
 
     Steve Payne, Editor of
    
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