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Source: https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1888271/israel-backing-allies-iran-attack
Israel Needs the Unequivocal Backing of Its Allies after Iran's Despicable Attack
(Sunday Express-UK) Col. Richard Kemp - On Saturday night I witnessed the most intensive aerial assault I have seen against Israel. To the soundtrack of thunderous explosions, the sky over Jerusalem was lit up with air defense projectiles colliding with Iranian missiles. It is important to recognize this was not a symbolic attack designed to fail. That would have been done with far fewer missiles and drones. Iran's clear intent was to hit hundreds of targets and kill hundreds of people. President Biden has told Prime Minister Netanyahu that he should consider this "a win." Such a call to Israel now is preposterous. It is exactly this approach that has led us to where we are today - consistently appeasing Iran and responding with abject feebleness to repeated attacks against U.S. forces. Iran's military mission to the UN has said that, with its strike on Israel, "the matter can be deemed concluded." But it is far from concluded. Iran has repeatedly confirmed its intent to annihilate the Jewish state and has constructed a "ring of fire" of proxies surrounding Israel to achieve that. Hamas' massacre of Israelis on Oct. 7 was part of this monstrous design, as are the daily rocket attacks against Israel since then by its proxy Lebanese Hizbullah. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.