As I predicted Thursday, Israel was about to do, what they have now started to do, and what has long needed to be done, they've stuck Iran's nuclear facilities. Ingeniously, they've already taken out much of Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities, military leadership, nuclear scientists, air defenses, and ballistic missiles. Iran's initial and anemic response, the launching of drones toward Israel, was quickly turned into an embarrassment, when every single Iranian drone was shot down before it left Iranian airspace.

Last night, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained Israel's strike on Iran in the plainest terms, by simply stating that Israel could no longer stand by while an adversary committed to Israel's annihilation pursued the nuclear arms needed to carry out its diabolical aim and ambition. This morning, in an interview on Fox's News' America's Newsroom, Michael Leiter, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S., added an exclamation mark to Netanyahu's explanation. Leiter explained how Israel's national motto, "Never again," prohibits them from making the same mistake today with Iran's Ayatollah that the world made ninety years ago with Germany's Adolf Hitler. 

According to Leiter, ninety years ago, unlike today, the Jewish people had neither a state nor an army to defend themselves against a genocidal antisemitic lunatic. Therefore, they were dependent upon other nations, all of which failed to lift a finger to protect them. Consequently, a third of our world's Jewish population, 6 million Jews, were killed in the Holocaust. Today, unlike ninety years ago, Israel has a state, an army, and the ability to defend itself and protect its people. Therefore, it is neither dependent upon other nations nor willing to wait to protect itself until it is too late; that is, until mushroom clouds from Iranian nuclear missiles are rising up all over Israel.

The Bible not only admonishes us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, but promises us prosperity if we love her (Psalm 122:6). It is, however, hard to understand how lovers of Jerusalem can pray for the defense and prosperity of Israel today, without also praying for the defeat of Iran and the demise of its mad mullahs. Don't discount prayer as a mighty weapon, it is as powerful a one as any warrior can wield in today's increasingly war-torn world.