You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about Israel's strike against Iran.

We're also going to talk about the riots in Los Angeles and an online beef between Simone Biles and Riley Games.

We have a lot to get to you this week, but we're glad you're with us. Please stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria

Bear alongside John Stone Street. John, we're recording this week on Friday morning. So obviously

last night news broke that Israel had attacked Iran's military, including some of its nuclear facilities

and facilities where they've created missiles. Reports are that they've killed one of Iran's top

military commanders, but I was listening to the New York Times this morning, and one of their

analysts said this is the largest attack that Israel

has launched on Iran in a very, very long time. So part of me feels like hurrah. The other part is,

you know, this is all adding to the feeling of instability right now in the Middle East and the

world at large. How are you reacting to this? Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to be learned.

It does seem to be a historic kind of event. And, you know, Mark Twain is famous for saying that

history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. And this is one of those, I think, rhyming

things. I was thinking this morning about this, and so much

to be yet learned about the scale and the scope. Israel's tendency is to strike when it thinks

it needs to do that, despite people disagreeing. Certainly, almost everybody on the left in America disagrees.

But in this case, it seems even the Trump administration had asked them not to do this.

They had gone forward.

And this is the posture that Israel has long taken, have incredible intelligence, incredible strategy, and then go when it

needs to go. You might remember that there was a shelling from Iran on Israel that was impressive

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