David Samuels has written an engrossing article on Slate which outlines why Israel not only should but will attack Iran’s nuclear programme. It’s a lengthy article and I recommend you take the time to read it.

It is to his eternal shame that the ridiculous Barack Obama has no intention of preventing a nuclear Iran. But then the whole of gentile humanity is disgraced by the fact that the job will be left to Israel. As I wrote in Not In My Name: “In the last century, the world sat back as millions of Jews were killed by a dictator, and now people are sitting back again. Look at how little we’ve learned.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is crystal clear about his intentions and those who attempt to deny the evidence are at best hopelessly naive and at worst secretly hoping for a second Holocaust. Not only has Ahmadinejad repeatedly vowed to “wipe Israel off the map” as he rushes to nuclear capability, when he issued a new banknote in 2007 he designed it with a nuclear insignia and chose a symbolic number of notes for the first and second print runs: six million. Go figure.

As Daniel Gordis said when I interviewed him earlier this week “What other country would watch a sworn enemy prepare to destroy it and do nothing?” Indeed. Bibi, it’s over to you.