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The Day America Thought like Israel
by Herb Keinon
For decades, the gap between Israeli and American strategic thinking was wide. Israel, surrounded by enemies and just over 1,000 kilometers from Iran, saw pre-emption as a necessity. The US, with oceans on either side, had the luxury of patience.
Trump has closed that gap. What he did on Sunday morning shows that he understands there are moments when it is essential to act early, act decisively, and act unapologetically when a failure to act may have catastrophic consequences.
With the US attack against key nuclear installations in Iran, the Begin Doctrine has come to Washington.
Articulated by former Prime Minister Menachem Begin after Israel's 1981 strike on Iraq’s nuclear reactor, the Begin Doctrine holds: “We shall not allow any enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction turned against us.”
The US President Donald Trump has embraced that same thinking. “Our objective,” Trump said in a national address, “was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.”
Until now, this kind of pre-emptive logic hadn’t gained traction in Washington. Trump is the first American president to fully internalize the Begin Doctrine's logic: that the price of early action is often less than the cost of inaction. That a regime built on revolutionary zeal and deceit cannot be trusted with self-imposed limits.
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
Iran has clearly defined its intention to commit Genocide and Ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel. That is why Israel needs to neutralize not just Hezbollah, Hamas and other PA’s terrorist organisations, but also to help the Iranian people to remove the Ayatollah’s regime.
Zionism is the Jewish National Independence Movement
The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated Saeed Izadi, commander of the Palestine Corps in Iran’s Quds Force and the key liaison between Iran and Hamas. Documents discovered in underground headquarters beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza - where Mohammed Sinwar was eliminated. The documents detailed a plan in which Izadi promoted the transfer of weapons to Hamas worth approximately $21 million, and the intention to transfer additional weapons worth $25 million.
Israel to Invest in New Public Shelters
The Defense Ministry and Home Front Command will install an additional 1,000 public bomb shelters across Israel and will renovate 500 older ones. More than half (57%) of Israel’s homes do not have a mamad (safe room). Homes built after 1993 are required to have a mamad. (After decades of threatening to destroy the "Zionist" state, Iran has no public shelters, only for the regime’s elite. The regime does not value the lives of Iranian people.)
The foreign ministers of Germany, Britain and France, known as the E3 and the EU, were unable to move Iran toward agreeing to give up its uranium enrichment program, a prerequisite for ending the war between Israel and Iran. “We urge Iran to continue its talks with the United States,” the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said after the Geneva talks failed. (Iran rejected talks as long as Israeli attacks continue.)
Mossad: Iran was 15 Days from Bomb
The Mossad believes that Iran could assemble a nuclear weapon within 15 days, while US assessments are more conservative. Despite Iran’s development of a large stockpile of enriched uranium that cannot serve any peaceful purpose, the US intelligence agencies continue to differ. (Which intelligence agency is more trustworthy and successful, Mossad or the CIA?)
Iran's Proxies Sit on the Sidelines
Since the war between Israel and Iran began, the Islamic Republic’s armed terror proxies in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen have largely refrained from joining the fight, despite vocal support and threats. Only the Houthis in Yemen have continued sporadic launches toward Israel, though at a lower rate than before the war.
American Terror Victims Can Sue the PA
The US Supreme Court upheld a statute passed by Congress to facilitate lawsuits against Palestinian authorities by Americans killed or injured in attacks abroad as plaintiffs pursue monetary damages for violence years ago in Israel and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria).
Majority of Israelis Support Attack on Iran
The Jewish Israeli strikes against Iran's nuclear weapons program is receiving overwhelming public support. Some 80% of Israelis rate the Prime Minister's management of the conflict with Iran as excellent or good. To the question: "Should Israel work to topple the Iranian regime beyond targeting the nuclear program and missile infrastructure?" - 75% answered "Yes". (In contrast, among Arab Israelis 86% favoured diplomacy over full-scale military action.)
Supreme Leader Rejected Call for Surrender
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally rejected a blunt demand by President Donald Trump one day earlier for “unconditional surrender.” “The Iranian nation also firmly stands against any imposed peace. The Iranian nation will not capitulate to anyone in the face of coercion. (People of Iran do not have to 'capitulate', just to remove their ugly current regime.)
At the time when G7 heads call for ‘de-escalation’ in Iran, the US President Donald Trump said that the US is “not looking for a ceasefire,” but rather a “real end” to the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, and that, after two months of talks in which Iran refused to dismantle its program, he is “not in the mood to negotiate.” Israel has done considerable damage to Iran and believes it can now deal a permanent blow to Tehran’s nuclear program, especially if it has the US help.
Killing Khamenei would "End the Conflict"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule out plans to target Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Instead, he suggested that it would be a sure-fire way to “end the conflict” with the Islamic Republic. “It’s not going to escalate the conflict, it’s going to end the conflict,” he said. “We’re not just fighting our enemy. We’re fighting your enemy. For God’s sake, they chant, ‘Death to Israel, death to America.’
Middle East Struggles to Stay Neutral
Iranian missiles and drones can often be seen streaking through the skies over Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Yet, despite these scenes, regional powers are striving to avoid direct involvement in the growing confrontation between Iran and Israel, even as missiles and drones traverse their skies and debris lands on civilian areas. Meanwhile, the Hezbollah Brigades, a powerful pro-Iranian militia in Iraq, issued a statement declaring: “Iran does not need military support from anyone to deter the Zionist entity. It has enough people and capabilities to humiliate Netanyahu.” ([Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states do not want Iran to be powerful, and they know Israel isn’t a threat to them.)
Quotes of the Week:
"As the former Prime Minister of Israel, I have a special message to the Iranian people: Your time is now to rise up against your cruel dictators. An old, disconnected, corrupt, and egotistical regime, a regime that is cruel and incompetent. This is the time to rise up. You have a horrible regime and you're a good nation. Israel has taken out the heads of the military, the heads of the IRGC. If not now, when? There won't be a better time. We respect you. Your time is now. If you act, Israel will stand with you. The world will stand with you. Good luck, and may God bless you." - Former Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett – How many times must Israel tell it to the Iranian people? The time to act is now!
Angry and Delusional 'Friends' of Israel
- French President Emmanuel Macron voiced strong opposition to a military-backed regime change in Iran, citing potential widespread destabilization across the Middle East. "The biggest mistake today would be to try to do a regime change in Iran through military means because that would lead to chaos."
- Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, during conversation with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, lashed out at Israel, asserting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government represents the most significant threat to Middle East security. A while ago, Erdogan blasted Israel and described it as a "terror state".
- Russia's Foreign Ministry vehemently condemned the ongoing Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, labelling them as "illegal" under international law and a severe threat to global security. (The war in Ukraine is not?)
- The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain plan to hold nuclear talks with their Iranian counterpart in Geneva. The aim of the talks between Iran and the Europeans is to persuade the Iranian side to firmly guarantee that it will use its nuclear program solely for civilian purposes.
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