Some Arab nations recognise that Iran is the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East. That is a reality which many in the West are blind too.
Already a subscriber?At least Iran’s fundamentalist jihad against Israel – the immediate cause of the Gaza war that has reportedly killed 33,000 Palestinians – is now plain for all to see.over Israel was the first military attack by Iran on the hated “Zionist regime”.
Iran’s provocative drone and missile shower shows why Israel should still be backed to finish the job of rooting proxy Hamas out of Gaza.Anything short of this, such as a ceasefire that left Hamas in control, would be a proxy victory for the Iranian regime that is the chief source of instability, terrorism and bloodshed in the Middle East.
Iran backs Hezbollah in Lebanon, which is launching attacks across Israel’s northern border. It arms the militant groups in Iraq, Syria and Yemen that fire missiles and rockets in Israel. And it also supplies the Houthi rebels with drones and other weaponry toThe fashionable progressive view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reduces a complex millennia-long history to the claim that Israel is an illegitimate “settler colonial state”.
Israel claims to have shot down 99 per cent of the inbound weapons with the help of US warships in the eastern Mediterranean. That is similar to when the US launched patriot missiles to intercept Saddam Hussain’s Scud missile attack on Israel during the first Gulf War. , and is seeking to forestall any retaliatory escalation by Israel by reaffirming “America’s ironclad commitment” to its security.
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