The Israeli military has ignored the advice from experts around the world and they appear to be on the brink of bringing stability to the Middle East. The past decades were dominated by Barak Obama and John Kerry and their attempts to support Iran as a power broker in the Middle East.
Obama and Kerry gave legitimacy to Iran and allowed the mullahs to gain access to billions of dollars in return for promises that Iran would be a peaceful leader in the region. (This sounds like a SNL skit)
Of course, Iran’s leaders saw the weakness of Obama’s position and they began to spread their newfound dollars around the region. Iran started arming terrorist organizations in their bid to put Israel on the defensive.
Obama and Kerry, like Neville Chamberlain years ago, failed to accurately assess the intentions of an evil state.
Iran began the process of arming Israel’s enemies. Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen gained military strength and the knowledge that Iran had their back in their wars with Israel.
On October 7, 2023, we witnessed the results of Obama and Kerry’s bad choices when Hamas attacked Israel. Immediately after the attack, Hezbollah began to attack Israel from the north and the Houthis began attacking Israeli ships in the region.
Israel realized that this was no ordinary attack but rather was the result of coordinated planning by Iran. Israel focused on slowly but surely destroying Hamas. Biden and Kamala attempted to force Israel to be tepid in their response to Hamas. They begged Israel to show restraint.
Israel, under the leadership of Netanyahu, ignored the Democrat’s pleas for forbearance. The Israelis understood that only a complete decimation of Hamas would prevent attacks in the future. As Hamas was downgraded, Israel turned their attention to Hezbollah and slowly castrated that organization.
Israel pulled no punches but rather slowly eliminated every one of Hezbollah’s leaders with some of the most ingenious military moves of this century. (Paging Mr. Hezbollah, Paging Mr. Hezbollah)
Israel followed up with a powerful attack on Iran that decimated their defensive systems and damaged their nuclear research. Iran was stripped naked militarily and embarrassed in front of the entire world.
This stubborn persistence by Israel, against the wishes of the Democrat Party, has brought some stability to the Middle East.
Iran has been forced to turn her focus back to her own borders. Israel is continuing with their mission of totally obliterating Hamas in Gaza. The reality is that had Israel not ignored the American Democrat politicians, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran would still be powerful forces for destabilization in the Middle East.
Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah have lost support around the world. Ironically, the only place they have retained support is from Democrat politicians and college professors.
Israel has set a new standard for dealing with terrorists. The world will take notice.
Bob Spencer
Publisher
Manatee Herald
publisher@manateeherald.com