The growing distaste for the Jewish state isn’t the fault of Netanyahu or Israeli behavior. It’s driven by forces seeking the destruction of the West and beyond the control of Jerusalem.
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The regimes testing US resolve are not operating under the same assumptions as in the past.
There are moments in history when it seems as if the world has reached its limits. Society is shaken. The old structures no longer function.
Despite the superiority of American arms, a combination of asymmetric strategy, internal cohesion and control over the Strait of Hormuz has prevented a swift defeat of the Islamic Republic.
Some crises are not decided first on the battlefield, but in waiting, pressure, and the struggle over time. That is exactly what we are witnessing now between the United States, Iran, and Israel.
Instead of reporting on the root problems causing civilian deaths and displacement, new outlets eagerly cover proposals to restrict defensive arms sales to Israel.
Ephraim Sneh may be a Knesset has-been, but his attitude isn’t the least bit passé in certain snobbish circles.
An increasingly hostile public in the United States has little idea of the necessity and importance of the war against Iran.
A quiet war of attrition is being fought between Washington and Tehran, without open battlefields, yet still carrying the potential to ignite the entire region.
