It has long been clear that Israel is our most important ally. The fecundity of Israeli technology will be more important to building a second American century than anything the Germans, the French, the Brits, or even the Taiwanese can offer. That’s been clear for a while.

But here is a new thought.  What we now know, since the thwarted Iranian attack and the neat Israeli response, is that today Israel is our most militarily potent ally. There is no ally that could do more for us in an actual war.

No nation has ever so totally rebuffed a massive combined missile attack—cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and those quite good Iranian drones—as the Israelis did on April 13.  Though the U.S. and some of the Arab states assisted, Israel pulled off a feat America could not duplicate today if such an attack were scaled up to U.S. size.