If Israel is blocked from victory, a day of nuclear reckoning looms
It is essential that Israel’s leaders are allowed to fulfil their objectives in the region without unnecessary intervention
Persistence in war matters, often in unexpected ways, validating Carl von Clausewitz’s axiom that “no other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance.”
Unlike Israel’s recent masterful intelligence successes, it was good fortune combined with a sustained military presence in Gaza that occasioned eliminating Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s barbaric leader.
But chance may turn against Jerusalem if its resolve fails, and one or more ballistic missiles Iran next fires against Israel carry nuclear weapons under their nose cones.
Months ago, the White House demanded that Israeli forces not enter Rafah, for fear of civilian casualties.
Yet it was precisely there that Sinwar’s terrorist career ended, trying to hide among the civilians Hamas used as human shields, the real war crime in Gaza. Sinwar’s death alone fully justifies Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to ignore President Biden’s dictate.
After Iran’s first missile and drone strike on Israel in April, Biden urged Netanyahu to “take the win” and not retaliate strongly. This facile notion suggested that simply remaining alive was all Israel needed. Jerusalem succumbed to Washington’s pressure, responding with only a single pin-prick retaliatory strike.
For its reward, Israel was again attacked on October 1 by 180-plus ballistic missiles, the largest such attack in history. Yet again, Biden and Starmer are pressuring Israel not to retaliate as forcefully as it could and should, particularly against Iran’s nuclear weapons program and oil and gas infrastructure.
Moreover, with Sinwar’s death, Biden is seeking a general cease fire across all theatres of the Ring of Fire. Aside from the modest problem that what’s left of Hamas’s leadership has already rejected a cease fire, Biden’s diplomacy is totally misdirected.
See Also:
Israel’s success has humiliated its critics
Israel Fights Alone, Carrying by Itself a Catatonically Suicidal West
My shocking October 7 experience at a UN riddled with antisemitism
Bolton:It Isn’t Over Yet – Video:
Jack’s Note: My view is that John Bolton has more foreign affairs knowledge is his baby finger than all of the people now running for office in America. Trump needs this man if he is going to have a successful administration and it’s far past time they hugged and made up. The country is far more important than any hurt feelings and John holds the keys to America’s future foreign relations. I always listen to him – never to Trump!
Pay attention to this entry. John Bolton is correct (video).