Israelis are understandably not thrilled with the Iran deal

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251. Israel's nuclear "ambiguity" policy is to evade NPT sanctions. It has been very clear about threats

of first-use against its neighbors and actual preemptive attacks on neighboring countries nuclear facilities, i.e., air raids to demolish Iraqi and Syrian nuclear reactors, as well as back-channel messages to the US that it would use the Sampson Option in the event that any foreign military actually penetrated IDF defenses and entered Israel, as almost occurred on the Golan Heights in 1973.

The timing of Israel's development of its first operational atomic bombs immediately prior to its launch of the 1967 October War suggests that acquisition of nuclear weapons has contributed to Israel's confidence in taking "preemptive" conventional military action and confidence that it holds a trump card in any conventional war it might initiate. The "Sampson Option" is actually part of Israel's conventional war fighting plans, and it makes Israel the greatest actual nuclear threat in the region.