WILL ISRAEL PULL TRIGGER ON TEHRAN? Netanyahu calls urgent meeting of ministers, security chiefs as Israel enters most dangerous week of the war
DENVER, COLORADO — As 10 million Israelis mark and mourn the horrors of October 7, 2023, the Jewish state has entered the most dangerous week of the war.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just called an urgent meeting of the IDF's top generals, and the heads of Israel's intelligence agencies.
It is widely believed that they are preparing to launch a massive military attack on the Iranian regime, its nuclear facilities and its oil facilities.
No one outside the highest echelons of the government knows exactly when but every Israeli senses that it is imminent.
Is Netanyahu about to pull the trigger?
U.S. President Joe Biden and much of the international community are putting enormous pressure on Israel not to act.
The Iranian government says they are ready for an Israeli attack.
But the big unknown is this: If and when Israel does strike – and it's almost impossible for me to imagine that Netanyahu won't – will the IDF be able to deliver a stunning and decisive knockout blow?
Can the IDF decapitate the Iranian regime and neutralize the Iranian nuclear threat quickly, creatively, and completely – the way it just took out the entire Hezbollah leadership in Lebanon?
A few days or weeks from now, will the strategic threat from Iran suddenly be over, for all intents and purposes?
Or will the region erupt in a far worse, far more dangerous, even apocalyptic war with tens of thousands of missiles raining down on Israel from Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and possibly even Gaza?
I genuinely don't know the answer.
No one does.
So, I ask Christians around the world to pray for Israel and her neighbors without ceasing.
The moment of truth is very likely at hand and the Epicenter may never be the same.
Joel C. Rosenberg is the editor-in-chief of ALL ISRAEL NEWS and ALL ARAB NEWS and the President and CEO of Near East Media. A New York Times best-selling author, Middle East analyst, and Evangelical leader, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and sons.
