Israel’s attack on Iran wasn’t about politics. It was about survival. Iran’s regime has pushed toward nuclear capability while funding terror across the region. Israel acted to prevent catastrophe. Read on to understand what’s at stake.
1. This is not about politics—it’s about survival.
It’s not about the current Israeli or American leadership. This is the moment when Israel had no choice but to act—because Iran was dangerously close to the point of no return in its nuclear weapons development.
This strike would have happened under an Israeli left-wing government or an American Democratic administration. It has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with security, responsibility, and timing.
This moment is not a political maneuver by any one Israeli government—it’s the result of over 20 years of warnings, intelligence, and international concern.
The Iranian regime has been publicly and repeatedly clear: its goal is to destroy the State of Israel. They have used proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to wage war by proxy. And they have pursued a nuclear program with deadly intent.
When a regime says they want to destroy you, and they build the means to do it—you take them seriously. Israel is not just responding—it is acting to prevent catastrophe.
2. This strike is about stopping a nuclear-armed Iran.
The world has known for two decades that Iran was enriching uranium and advancing toward weapons capability.
Years of negotiations, diplomacy, and international sanctions slowed but did not stop that progress. Iran has consistently violated agreements and hidden its true capabilities.
A nuclear Iran would endanger not only Israel, but regional and global stability—triggering an arms race, threatening Arab allies, and emboldening authoritarian regimes worldwide.
3. Israel is doing what every nation has a right—and obligation—to do: defend its people.
No country would sit back as a sworn enemy builds weapons of mass destruction on its doorstep.
This is not a strike of aggression. It is a strike of prevention, rooted in the moral responsibility to protect innocent lives—Jewish and non-Jewish alike.
2. This strike is not anti-Iranian. It’s anti-regime.
We pray for the people of Iran—especially the women, students, and everyday citizens who have risked their lives protesting a brutal regime.
But the Iranian government has chosen to spend its resources not on schools or hospitals, but on terror, war, and weapons.
This strike is aimed not at a people, but at an apparatus of destruction that threatens millions.
5. As Jews and as justice seekers, we can hold complexity.
We believe in peace. We believe in restraint. We believe in diplomacy.
But we also believe that when every path has been exhausted, and your people are in danger, you act.
The JCJ community will always stand for the right of Israel to exist in peace and security, and we will continue to stand against regimes that seek its destruction.
6. What are Israelis saying, according to a recent survey* by the Israel Democracy Institute?
- 70% of all Israelis support the decision to strike Iran.
- 82% of Jewish Israelis support the strike on Iran and its timing.
- 65% of Arab Israelis opposes both the strike and its timing.
- Two-thirds of Jewish Israelis believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s motives for launching an attack at this time were mainly objective and security-related.
*Flash Survey conducted by Israeli Decmoracy Institiute’s Prof. Tamar Hermann, Dr. Lior Yohanani, Yaron Kaplan, Inna Orly Sapozhnikova
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