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An Associated Press (AP) story printed below the fold in the Hartford Courant on Monday, April 15, 2024 titled “U.S. Tries to halt escalation over Iran” bears close scrutiny. The story is subtitled: “Biden pushes Israel to show restraint, not answer attack.”
What is the difference between “not answering an attack” and
abject surrender? Unlike persons, countries do not have left cheeks they may
turn to their enemies when they are struck on the right cheek.
The attacks on the state of Israel by Iran and its terrorist
mafia – Hamas, in addition to being the government of Gaza, Iran’s most repellant
terrorist organization, Hezbollah, located in Lebanon, and the Houthis of Yemen – have a long
pre-history. These groups are agents of Iran, financed and supported militarily
by a state that considers Israel “the Great Satan” and the United States
Satan’s brother in arms.
It is Iran that is responsible for “widening the war” in the
Middle East, not Israel. Iran, under its Shia Islamic revolutionary regime,
has been widening the war against Israel for decades.
War in the Middle East now touches the following states:
Israel, Iran, Russia, China, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, among others, and
the United States.
During the administrations of both former President Barack
Obama and current President Joe Biden, Iran was considered a tolerable nuisance
that might be turned from its violent purposes by military experts in
Washington DC and obliging presidents throbbing with moral unction who were
willing to abide Iran’s obvious hostilities towards Israel until DC negotiators
persuaded the government of Iran, by means of sweet reason and hefty bribes, to
give up the production of nuclear weapons and make peace with Israel, a nation
the ayatollahs of Iran wish to “push into the sea.”
Professors in Ivy League universities such as Harvard and
Yale, put on oath, very likely could explain to pro-Palestinian protesting
students precisely what the expression “push into the sea” means. It means,
both inside Iran and throughout the wider world, that the state of Israel must
be destroyed root and branch.
After the most recent Hamas attack on Israeli citizens on October
7, 2023, Israel declared war on Hamas and associated terrorist groups that
could not survive were they not supported by Iran, suddenly enriched when the
Biden administration revoked US measures to deny Iran profits through the sale
of detested oil products.
This attitudinal revision of a largely successful US policy
initiative during the pro-Israeli administration of then President Donald Trump
was in large part a reversion to the foreign policy initiatives of the Obama
administration that had sent planeloads of cash delivered under cover of
darkness to Iran without the knowledge of the U.S. Congress.
For some reason yet in dispute, Obama held in high esteem
the ayatollah infested Iranian regime that in 1979 had stormed the American
embassy in Tehran and held 80 Americans captive for 444 days during President
Jimmy Carter Democrat administration. The American hostages were set free on
January 21, 1981, just hours after Republican President Ronald Reagan delivered
his inaugural address, a rebuke to the Carter administration that had
steadfastly refused to deliver the deposed Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
to his executioners in Tehran. The Shah died of cancer in Egypt in 1980.
Trump has big feet, and the Biden administration has
continually tripped over them in its zeal to turn back the clock prior to
November 19, 2016, the date of Trump’s inauguration as President of the United
States.
The war in the Middle East between Iran, its terrorist mafia
and Israel, was already a war widened by Iran long before Hamas terrorists
swooped down upon Israeli citizens and began butchering them. Accused of
widening the war, Israel has pointed to the unremitting efforts of Iran and its
client terrorists to push Israel into the sea.
At the beginning of the Israeli assault on its permanent
enemies, the Biden administration vowed to back Israel, which had declared war
on its enemies. Thus far, Israel, like Ukraine, has conducted a purely
defensive war. But throughout history, those who win the war make the peace,
and wars are won through offensive means.
The Biden administration is now in its temporizing mode.
Democrat U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has
called upon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign office before
his war aims – the destruction of Hamas, both a governing authority in Gaza and
a terrorist organization tied to the apron strings of Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei – have been fully accomplished.
Biden wants a return to the years of the Obama
administration, when the US government could claim without blushing it was pursuing
a “two state” solution to the Middle East quagmire. But revoking preceding
policy measures is never tantamount to repealing history, always a hard taskmaster,
and a two state solution in Gaza is, shall we say, problematic.
Some people are beginning to understand that calls for a “two
state solution” in Gaza are, to turn a phrase of Reagan’s, not the solution to
the Gaza problem. The proposed solution is itself a problem that now has given
birth to an existential war between Israel and its enemies.
A hopeful sign emerged recently that important Arab states
helped Israel to ward off a potentially deadly attack. Business Insider reports “Israel
found help from unlikely sources against an Iranian missile attack… Jordan shot
down an Iranian missile, and other Arab states may've provided intel.”
Israel is determined to win the war so that it may shape an
ensuing peace. The Biden administration is determined to win the upcoming 2024
presidential election. The two ambitions are entirely different. Having sworn
early on in the Israeli-Iran conflict his undying support for Israel, ABC
is now reporting, “As Israel on Monday weighed its response to Iran's stunning
attacks this weekend, the U.S. is privately telling officials there: If Israel
strikes back militarily, it will do so alone.”
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