NOW OR NEVER- ELIMINATING IRANS NUCLEAR THREAT By the end of this week we will have either witnessed the

single largest aerial attack by Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, or nothing of the sort for years to come. By this Shabbat we will either be astonished at the technical genius of the Israeli Air Force in so rapidly and thoroughly vanquishing an enemy hundreds of miles from its borders, or left aghast at how Israel could have allowed the unthinkable to happen. By next weekend we will have either heard the Israeli Prime Minister in his unmistakable American accent tell the world how Israel has eliminated the threat of another Holocaust, or well cower at the prospect of a second Holocaust destroying the modern Jewish state. Because Saturday, August 21, is D-Day. The point of no return. By this date Israel will have either completely destroyed the entire Iranian nuclear capability, thus preventing an Iranian nuclear attack on the Jewish state, or it will have missed the opportunity to do so. Probably forever. Last Friday the Israeli press was abuzz with the astonishing revelation that the Iranian nuclear reactor at Bushehr will go line, which in laymans terms means that the reactor will then be fully operational. The Russian Energy State Nuclear Corp, which has spent the past decade building the reactor for Iran (and roughly $1 billion), announced that it will be installing nuclear fuel rods into the reactor. From that moment the Bushehr plant will be officially considered a nuclear energy installation, declared the spokesman for the state-run Russian company. This is the culmination of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putins comment last March that the Russian-built reactor would be functioning by the summer. Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton immediately took to the air waves last week to declare the Now or never scenario to the world, but specifically to Israel, to destroy Irans nuclear ambitions. This means that unless fate or the Israeli Air force intervenes, Iran will go nuclear on August 21. It also means that it is extremely unlikely that neither Israel nor the United States will attack the Iranian nuclear complex after that date because once the fuel rods are in place any attack will cause massive radiation fallout throughout the Persian Gulf region, which would include not only Iran, but depending on everything from the direction of the wind to the extent of the attack, could easily rain down on Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, and the thousands of American and Coalition soldiers stationed there. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia could be likewise be hit with nuclear fallout. The Persian Gulf and the rivers flowing into it could be contaminated with radiation as well. All of this can be prevented if Israel attacks Iran this week. But after Iran crosses the nuclear threshold and installs the nuclear fueling rods, it will be too late. Too late for Israel, too late for the Middle East, too late for the West. Because when the first Iranian nuclear reactor goes on line, Iranian nuclear bombs will shortly follow, then mounted on the already existing Iranian long range missiles to be launched against Israel and anywhere else the megalomaniac Iranian leaders decide. The Iranian leaders have declared the destruction of the Jewish state their top priority. And theyre not bluffing. Its a night mare scenario, and the clueless Western leaders led by Barack Obama are letting it happen. So its up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to save his country, since its more than apparent that no one else will. Hell have to effectively tell

everyone from Obama to Putin to the International Atomic Energy Agency to go to hell and launch a massive Israeli strike against Iran before the reactor goes on line next weekend. And if history is any indication, it will happen. In 1981 Israel attacked the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq and in 2007 the Syrian nuclear reactor just before both had their fuel rods installed. But those were just isolated installations, easily destroyed by about a dozen Israeli planes each. The destruction of the entire Iranian nuclear apparatus will involve well over a hundred Israeli warplanes. Does Benjamin Netanyahu have the nerve to do it? Visitors to the Israeli Prime Minister office notice two prominent portraits on his wall- Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, and Winston Churchill, the first world leader who approved the formation of modern Jewish state. But on Bibis desk is another, more important photothat of his older brother, Colonel Jonathan Netanyahu. Yoni, as he was called, was the quintessential Zionist-warrior, and is Bibis life-long role model and hero. In 1976 Yoni was killed leading a daring airborne mission to rescue Jews held hostage far from home in Uganda. It was risky, bold, courageous and an astonishing success. And right now if Benjamin Netanyahu has any hesitation on the right course of action against the Iranian threat to Israels existence he has only to ask himself one questionWhat would Yoni do?