It's Monday, June 16, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news

and events from a Christian worldview. We now know that Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear capacity

is ongoing. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the operation

will go on, quote, for as many days as it takes. And he went on to say that all of this is because

of the threat to Israel's existence posed by a nuclear power in Iran, that is to say, in Iran with

nuclear weapons. But we also know a lot of details

about how Israel did this and the timing, why it happened when it happened. So number one,

one of the things we now know is that Israel had forward deployed drones and other weapons.

Now, just remember the fact that that was basically unknown in terms of the tactics of

modern warfare until the very same thing happened when Ukraine struck deep inside Russia.

And it was because they had forward deployed drones. A very similar thing turns out to have

been undertaken virtually at the same time by Israel. So even as the attacks were certainly coming about because of weapons sent from Israel to Iran,

and that included rockets and missiles, the reality is that drones were a big part of this picture

and may continue to be.

But it's also true that Israel, even as it has undertaken this attack upon Iran with the

avowed declaration that it's not going to stop until that nuclear capacity is nullified,

at least for now, it's also true that Israel is deployed across a number of different fronts,

most importantly in its war against Hamas and continuing military efforts

there in Gaza. But putting this in a strategic context, here's something we need to consider.

This is exactly how Israel plays the game. Or to put it in another way, this is how Israel has

survived. I want to mention three groups in particular. Just put Iran in the

background here, but mention Hezbollah, mentioned Hamas, mentioned the Houthi rebels. What Israel has

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