Editors note: The pic below is known for its revealing of the Dome of the Rock, the Muslim temple. But the next Jewish Temple will be on this site. The war is coming when all the nations will gather near here and against Israel. Many have talked about whether Israel will go against Iran before Bush leaves office. Here is a view of that from jerusalem and that of Stan Goodenough. Called the Jerusalem Watchman.

Israel, when you go out to battle
Stan Goodenough
Is Israel finally poised to blow apart the aggressive, anti-West Iranian nuclear program? After months of speculation and counter speculation, and after years of appealing for effective international intervention, there are signs this morning suggesting the Jewish state may well be preparing to go to the wire on its own.
The Jerusalem Post
(December 4) said it “has learned” that the Israel Defense Forces “is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States.”
Fox News picked up and aired the story across America.
While “Israeli officials have said it would be difficult, but not impossible, to launch a strike against Iran without receiving codes from the US Air Force, which controls Iraqi airspace,” said the Post.
Israel has not been given access to those codes yet. The US also refused to provide them during the 1991 First Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein threatened to burn half of the Jewish state with chemical weapons.