Nils A. Haug
Gatestone Institute, July 7, 2024
“It is the mission of the Islamic republic of Iran,” Iran’s current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been recorded as saying, “to erase Israel from the map of the region.” He adds, “Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.”
If the primary obligation of any elected government is to protect the nation from threats foreign and domestic, it is even more necessary for a nation, such as Israel, which has been facing annihilation by avowed and well-armed adversaries since its independence in 1948.
At present, Iran, backed by released funding from the Biden administration and with support from the Chinese Communist Party are — along with “enabler of terrorism and dishonest broker” Qatar — the primary state actors currently seeking Israel’s obliteration.
The Biden administration, as well, while previously having been extremely helpful, unfortunately, as of late, has been massively unhelpful. Initially off to a great start after the October 7, 2023 massacre of Israelis and others by Iran’s proxy, Hamas, the Biden administration seems since to have collapsed into a foreign policy paralysis, as it has in Ukraine.
The consequent obstructions, enormously costly for Israel in life and treasure, involve what weapons Congress promised to deliver; trying to remove Israel’s duly elected prime minister, seemingly to put in a US puppet; pretending to know how to micromanage another sovereign nation’s urban warfare when it could not even manage its own in Afghanistan, and fabricating other unnecessary obstacles, such as needing to know the plan for the “day after” when it clearly looks as if the Biden administration just wants to please its terrorist-sponsoring adversaries, Iran and Qatar, by allowing their prized client, Hamas, to win the war. … [To read the full article, click here]