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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel and Ehud Barak, Israeli Defense Minister

Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, describes Israel as a "cancerous tumor of a state"

Khamenei's latest hateful quote about the State of Israel

Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense

You're a country of 6 million human beings surrounded by adversarial countries that want to murder all of your citizens. All they need is a device to perform that act...and the device is in the oven. And if that country is Israel, with a 4,000 year history of horrors against its' people, most recently the WWII German holocaust which murdered 6 million Jews, what would you do as Israeli leaders? Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, pictured above, entrusted with the future of the Jewish people, know what to do and they aren't telling.

Iran's leadership, the most demonstratively hate-filled government on planet earth, is allegedly a few months away from producing their own "Doomsday weapon". All the while, the Israelis watch, wait and plan.

Since 2002, Iran has been not-so-furtively building a deliverable weapon with the help of the Russians and the Pakistani mad scientist, Abdul Kahn. Their very public motivation for a nuclear arsenal is fourfold: "wipe Israel off the face of the map" because of their "Zionist" treatment of their beloved Palestinian Muslim brothers, conquer and control the oil-producing countries of the Mideast, deter the United States from any future military action against them or their Moslem brotherhood and foment and bankroll criminal mayhem in the United States and elsewhere around the globe. Today, Iran is a dangerous hostile country hellbent on Israel's total destruction. Tomorrow, with nukes, Iran becomes 1000 times more dangerous and threatening to the entire world.

Iranian leaders have proclaimed that with nuclear weapons "Israel can be eliminated in nine minutes" and with that 4000 years of history. And what is Israel's response to this proclaimed madness? Israel has a right to exist and they will defend their country and their people regardless of world opinion.

Israel's point of response to their dovish critics is clear with a posited question: if America was the recepient of endless violence and rocket launches against their homeland by neighbors, what would America do? Diplomacy. Sanctions. Covert missions. Surrender. Military action. Simple answer. Hopefully, America would defend itself with aggressive military action against their enemies. So, why would anybody expect Israel be any different or is there a different standard of behaviour expected of Israel?

Recently, the chatter about a preemptive Israeli attack is increasing in volume. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed in a curiously-timed controversial opinion with David Ignatius of the Washington Post that "there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June before Iran enters what the Israelis describe as a 'zone of immunity' to commence building a nuclear bomb." Israel's response to Panetta's comments by the former head of Mossad, Israel's CIA, Meir Amit, "suprise is one of the secrets" that Israel will employ with great effectiveness as they employed in the 6 Day War against Egypt 45 years ago. Little Israel defeated the massive Egyptian army then, as they plan to do against the Iranians now. And if they strike first, it will become very messy for both sides and their allies. As an Israeli general said recently, "we're not perfect but if we don't do something, we will all be perfectly dead."

But it's not a question of if, it's a question of when. Israel will defend itself. They always have regardless of what other countries try to impose upon them.

And what of the Iranian people? How do they think and feel about this pending doom? Tragically, they have no say on the matter. The deranged emboldened Mullahs of theocratic Iran are leading them right over the cliff....and for what?

Welcome to the Mideast, the land of a million questions and very few answers.