It could be simpler in some ways. News outlets there don't have the same Western restrictions and can speak more openly about these issues or speculate about them.
Every time a conflict erupts and at least one of the parties has nuclear weapons, the issue of a nuclear strike is immediately brought up. Furthermore, it's known that Israel has nuclear weapons and that it's a small country running out of options.
Also, lately, due to their actions, they've been portrayed as genocidal, religiously fanatical, and unscrupulous liars, so the entire Israeli clique is perceived as madmen who wouldn't hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if they ran out of options.
Al Jazeera was talking about the Samson option a week ago, so we can get an idea of the perception surrounding this issue.
Related to this topic, former CIA agent John Kyriakou (reminder that he was sentenced to prison for exposing Al Qaeda's torture program for prisoners) has said that Israel has been pressuring US presidents to bomb Iran and that all had refused until Trump came along. The nuclear issue comes up in relation to Netanyahu allegedly threatening Trump with such an attack on Iran if he did not intervene.
He cites several sources linked to Congress, so we can give it a chance that the threat was real:
(minute 25, he also talks about Epstein and how the undeclassified files on Kennedy's assassination all point to Israel because of its opposition to its nuclear program)
If this is true and comes to fruition, the truth will be revealed more openly: the US bases in allied countries located in the Middle East were primarily intended to protect Israel:
Israel has reportedly proposed a massive strategic shift that would see major U.S. military bases relocated from the Persian Gulf to Is - JFeed Israel News
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