A week after the end of the fighting in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), it is now becoming clear why Hamas did not join the mini-war.
Iran
“The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on our freedoms and values. It is the result of decades of incitement by Iran.”
President Biden should consider the assault to be a metaphor for the dangers inherent in the West’s falling prey to the deadly machine that emboldened the terrorist from New Jersey.
The mini-war was once again widely regarded as a local conflict between Israel and the Palestinian national movement, but the bigger picture reveals a much larger, regional, conflict that is overseen by the regime in Iran.
As talks in Qatar hit dead end, Iran admits it’s been working on a nuclear bomb all along; Israel intensifies war against IRGC.
Iran and Russia further bind their ties—one an authoritarian regime claiming Divine sanction, the other an authoritarian regime promoting nationalist chauvinism, both of them sworn enemies of Western democracy.
Israel is clearly concerned that Russia’s criticism could move from rhetoric to action.
Putin wants to create an alliance of outcasts.
After a top Iranian official claims Tehran already has the ability to build an atomic bomb, analysts tell JNS that “technologically speaking, they are very, very close.”
As the US looks for a Mideast security alliance to counter Iran, Putin sponsors a new axis based in Tehran.
