Why Only Israel's Mission?

While the rest of the world continues mostly empty talk around Iran's nuclear development aspirations, Israel is preparing to react forcefully as they have historically done.

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz, who recently announced his candidacy to succeed Ehud Olmert as Israel’s leader, is throwing more than empty words, and they're words that Iran should listen to. If he wins, he has stated that he'll deal with Iran using whatever means necessary. “If Iran continues its nuclear weapons program, we will attack it,” Mofaz said last week. “Other options are disappearing. The sanctions are not effective. There will be no alternative but to attack Iran in order to stop the Iranian nuclear program.”

These are hopeful words, and I think that in the end, no matter who is elected in Israel, it will someday carry out this mission. It could be someday very soon.

For those of us who believe that no terrorist state can EVER be allowed to possess nuclear weapons, the reason is perfectly clear; they would use them! It's just that simple. Why anyone would believe otherwise is beyond my comprehension.

Russia and China shield Iran, the U.S. and Britain maintain cheap talk, and the rest of the world keeps their collective heads in the sand. So it will fall to the little state of Israel to defend civilization. Their mission is nothing less than that.

It is an incredible irony to me that this little chunk of humanity, who have been victims of so many attempts at obliterating it, should someday rise to be the people who might just save so many of us. I know very little about the Jewish faith, except my ventures into the Old Testament. But when they think about themselves as being Chosen, then the devote Jew probably accepts this responsibility and sees no irony whatsoever.