(Jerusalem Post) Gil Troy - Israelis appreciate the munitions America has supplied, and President Biden's tremendous moral support. Still, the obsessive administration attempts to restrain Israel terrify me as an American historian. Such moral and strategic confusion does not bode well for America's defense posture. It telegraphs weakness to America's enemies, along with impatience with the kind of sustained conflict required to defeat evil. Such callowness cultivates among America's population a sniveling, simplistic, and unrealistic approach to foreign relations that underestimates the need to unleash tremendous firepower when fighting totalitarians and terrorists. Sinwar's reign of terror ended only because Netanyahu and Israel defied conventional wisdom and world opinion. Deploying unremitting, prolonged pressure on Gaza worked. Nevertheless, both southern Lebanon and Gaza still overflow with weapons depots, command-and-control centers, and jihadists vowing to destroy Israel. We cannot end the war in Gaza until Israel is secure. We, who want this war to end yesterday, must keep fighting tomorrow until the aggressors - Hamas, Hizbullah, and Iran - cave in. The writer, a Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University, is a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute.
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