Visiting Israel for the first time a year ago was not only a spiritual pilgrimage and fulfillment of a dream, but an experience that allowed me to look at my own experiences as a persecuted Christian in Iran, arrested, and sentenced to death because of my faith, through a different prism. I went to Israel to impart a message to the Israeli and Jewish people that Iran is not your enemy, that Iranians support Israel and the Jewish people, and that the Iranian and Israeli (and Jewish) people have a common enemy in the terrorist Islamic regime.
On my first day in Israel I visited the Ella Valley, the Biblical site at which David fought and defeated the giant Philistine Goliath. I understood that today, Israel represents David, and those in the greater Arab and Moslem world who threaten Israel are the modern Goliath. I learned that David’s successful military strategy then, even as the underdog, is one which can and ought to be employed by Israel today to defeat its enemies, including the terrorist Islamic regime of the country of my birth.
Following the Islamic regime firing hundreds of ballistic and cruise missiles and suicide drones at Israel this week, the savage Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7, and what’s being reported as an Israeli attack on Iranian sites, I see the urgency in Israel and the world responding to achieve a complete victory to defeat the ayatollahs, and their proxies, just as David defeated Goliath.
David entered battle armed with five stones and he knew exactly where to aim. He struck Goliath in the head. He did not waste his stones aiming at the hands, legs, or the other parts of Goliath’s body. He knew he should only target the head. With David’s first stone, Goliath fell face down.
The example is the same today. Israel is much smaller than its enemies which threaten it. However, just like David, it has the intelligence and ability to be as focused in taking down the evil giants that threaten it today, the head of which is the Islamic regime.
Adopting David’s five-stone strategy, Israel should be no less laser focused on how to defeat its modern enemies. Israel and the West should target:
-Stone #1 – The “Supreme Leader” and ayatollahs
-Stone #2 - Iran’s Nuclear facilities and scientists
-Stone #3 - IRGC leaders, its military installations, and putting its business subsidiaries on global terror lists
-Stone #4 - Harsh economic sanctions on the failing Iranian economy
-Stone #5 – the grave of Ayatollah Khomeini, to remove all symbols of the evil Islamic regime from its beginning
By defeating the Islamic regime this way, the Iranian people will also rise up, cheer those who have helped to remove the wicked rulers, and take control of their country, free from the extremist Islam that has enslaved them for decades.
Doing so will also reveal the power of good over evil, just like David did over Goliath, the unsuspecting military hero who came from anonymity and is now celebrated as a brave warrior.
Let this be a call to the world to see that the good represented by Israel is greater than the evil represented in the Iranian Islamic regime and its proxies.
I wish at this season when the Jewish people celebrate their deliverance from slavery in Egypt, that even with all the challenges facing Israel and Jewish people around the world, and the potential of an attack by the Islamic regime and its proxies, they will be victorious in the end.