If a belligerent state launched 186 explosive drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles from three fro꧋nts against civilian targets within the United States, would Joe Biden call it a “win”?
Would the president t💃ell us the best thing we can do now is show “re🍒straint”?
Wh🌺at if that same terror state’s proxy armies had recently helped murder, rape and kidnap more than 1,000 American men, women and children?
What if this terror state were trying to obtain nuclear weapons so it could contin൲ue to agitate without any c🌳onsequences?
This is what Joe Biden and the Barღack Obama acolytes, Iranian dup💛es and Israel antagonists he’s surrounded himself with demand of the Jewish state.
And by “Iranian dupes,” I don’t only mean the Jake Sullivans ♚and Antony Blinkens of the world, who worked to elevate the mullahs over Sunni allies and the Israelis, or even a Hamas-bestie like Rob Malley or Israel-hater like Maher Bitar🌠.
I mean assets of the Islamic Republic wh🥂o promised the Iranian government to help out in any way possible.
Their worldview is 🎉a cancer that’s metastasized within theꦿ Democratic Party.
To the𝄹se people, Israel will always be the vi🧔llain.
And if the Iranian regime’s murder of more than 600 American servicemen couldn’t✤ cool that broman🌞ce, 1,300 dead Jews certainly aren’t going to do the trick.
To begin with, Jared Kushner’s Middle East policy efforts were, by every measure, more successful than not 𒁏only Obama’s efforts but the decade🦩s of Brookings Institution-endorsed failures the region has endured.
The Trump administration undercut Palestinian terror efforts, stifled Iranian ambitions and created space for the Gulf states and Israel to enha🅘nce ties.
Biden im🌳mediately reversed those gains, reverting to Obama-era Iranian boosterism.
We’re experiencing the conseq🐭uences of pacifying Islamic ideologues.
Obama might have sent the mullahs pallets of cash in the middle of the night, but the Biden administration openly subsidized the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a $6 billion ransom payment, at least $25 billion in sanctions relief,🐻 including $10 billion via a waiver, and so on.
Let’s also remember that one of Bꦿiden’s first foreign-policy decisio🌼ns was to overturn Trump-era policy by releasing millions to Gaza that would be sifted off by Hamas, restarting funding to the Hamas-allied United Nations Relief and Works Agency and removing the Iranian-backed Houthis from the terror list.
Bꦅut to truly comprehend how demented our foreign policy has become, consider this: Iran reportedly informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, and Washington told Tehran through Ankara that the attack should be “within certain limits.”
This is a longtime ally of the United States we’re talking 𓆉about — and a foe that’s murdered and kid𝔍napped Americans for decades.
It should be mindꦇ-boggling that Biden likely knew Iran was moving forward with its attack but still gave his goofy and impotent “Don’t” when asked about it by the press.
Indeed, the Biꦦden administration’s position seems to be that Israeli military and defens♏e forces exist to allow Iran to have a hissy fit and save face.
The Iranian attack is o🌊nly “symbolic” because it failed.
According to officials, the a🔯ttack, indiscriminately aimed at civilian centers, was designed to cause “maജss casualties.”
Just because you▨ shoot at s✅omeone and miss doesn’t mean you’re not trying to kill that person.
Yes, the Iranians were embarrassed.
But they almost surely view this as a win.
And they crossed a red line💯 by firing on Israel from꧂ their own territory.
Yet Israel is apparently the only nation on Earth✃ that is permitted to fully defend iꦅtself only if its enemies succeed.
Then again, virtually every conflict against Israe൩l unfurls the same way: Its enemies threaten or attack the country.
Israel responds and heads for a victory.
Only then does the world demand “restraint.”
Finally, the antagonists demand Israel rewind history to a more c🎶onvenient spot.
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(Modern Democrats demand that Israel show restraint before it even has a chance to res🐲pond. That’s a new twist.)
Those, for instance, who contend Israel started the conflict when it hit a “diplomatic mission” in S🐼yria last week are engaged in restarting the historical clock when it suits them.
Thꦍere are no Iranian diplomatic miss𝔉ions in Syria.
There are buil🐓ding🙈s where IRGC terror leaders coordinate attacks on civilians — against Arabs as well as Jews.
Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the “general” Israel killed last week, helped plan🐟 the barbarism of Oct 7.
Recall tha🎉t the United States atomized Qassem Soleimani at a neutral nation’s airport.
Of course, Obamaites proteste♕d that killing as 🧜well.
It is something of a cliché 🉐to contend Israel must be right 10🧜0% of the time while its enemies only need to be right once.
It also happens to be true.
Last year’s lo-fi Hamas attack was a devastating failure for the Jewish state and its leadership.
Israel, a country the siz๊e of New Jersey with a dense populatio🌠n area, relies on deterrence and preemption.
Democrats blamed their strawman, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not Hamas or Iran, for trying to “drag”ꦑ✅ the world into war.
The Ne💮w York Times’ Tom Friedman, perhaps the wrongest person ever to tread on this planet, theorized the PM wanted “a war to shore up his own crumbling political base.”
Axios reports that Net🌟anyahu was reluctant to strike back while his cabinet wanted to move immediately.
Anyone who’s paid five minute🍸s of attention to Israeli politics knows Netanyahu is frusꩵtratingly cautious.
The “war hawk” perception of him is a myth, created by the le💙ft because of the PM’s open opposition to Obama’s mull🐼ah bootlicking.
We have no idea what Israel will do.
Maybe caution is the best policy.
The notion that ღthe Jewish state simply lashes out in revenge and doesn’t rationally consider all its options is preposterous.
Whatever happens, it should be Israel’s terms,💞 not Iran’s.
Despite what Obama’s retreads demand.
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist.