The only justification they need, IMO is that countries like Iran and Irag had/have promised to WIPE Israel from the map of the world. I'm a great believer in pre-emptive strikes and at least my knowledge comes from people (not all Jews) who actually LIVE in Israel, as opposed to a very biased media!!
Except nobody in Iran or Iraq ever said that.
This may sound pretty incredible and pretty far out, but sometimes Jews lie. I know, it is unbelievable and frankly boggles the mind to contemplate but yes in fact they do. Quite a bit as it turns out.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Israel is a rotten state that nobody wants to live in - especially not any Jews. Ahmadinejad pointed out that the majority of the world's jews live in the United States and no amount of recruitment by Israel over the past fifty years has been able to entice any significant numbers of jews to immigrate. He has specifically said the day is coming when it will naturally collapse for lack of interest and "Israel" will be wiped off the world's maps because it can no longer maintain a population high enough to qualify as a country. He has said it will
die naturally from lack of interest despite the desperation the radicals in Israel demonstrate in trying to whip up one conflict after another with their neighbors.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has never expressed a desire to destroy Israel, has never threatened Israel and has never threatened to use a nuclear weapon on Israel to destroy it. He has never threatened any of Israel's people or advocated "exterminating the jews" or expressed any admiration for Hitler. This would be quite odd given the huge population of jews living inside Iran who enjoy great personal freedom and complete acceptance by the people of Iran.
Incredible as it seems, Corwin, I know it is pretty far out, up there with Bigfoot and the Jersey Devil, but the Western governments lie about lots and lots of stuff to their own people to gin up various wars they want to wage. If all they ever did was tell the truth, we probably would not have had any wars for the past thousand years. Lying is what psychopaths do to get others to do their bidding.
As a Christian, Corwin, your first, second and third allegiance is to the truth. Let God be true and every man a liar if it comes to that. Men lie when they say Christianity is used to start wars. That's a lie. Lies about Christianity are used to start wars and lies about Christ are used to justify them. They are all liars and they go astray as soon as they are born. Don't be a respecter of persons and believe that because somebody is a self-styled authority that they are not lying. It is likely if they represent themselves as an authority that they are lying and using the trappings of authority to get you to accept their lies.