If War Returns, Iran May Destroy Israel I Amaresh Misra

Look, if it happens again this time, Iran will finish off Israel — there are no two ways about it. It will hit Israel very hard, and you will be surprised to hear that a section of Israel's ruling class is actually prepared for this. Now this will become a huge debate later, you will ask me about it, but those people are ready for it too, and they are saying this because — look, Israel actually is not a nation at all. It is an ideological mercenary force, followers of Zionism. Their belief is that they are the flagbearers of imperialism in the world and they have to carry that forward. They consider themselves a great overseer of Western civilisation. So their mindset is not determined by where they lost, how much damage they suffered, how much they care about their own civilians — they do not care at all. They have the Hannibal Doctrine there: if it comes down to it, they will kill their own civilians rather than let them be taken. That is Israel's official policy. They don't care about the civilians.