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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/04/13/cameron-resist-tehran-as-robustly-as-moscow/
Britain Must Stand with Israel
(Telegraph-UK) Editorial - Iran launched a major drone attack on Israel on Saturday night. Footage showing Iranian weapons passing low through Iraqi airspace indicated that they were the same weapons deployed to such devastating effect by Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine. The regime in Tehran has cast a long shadow over the world. From its direct funding of the evil of Hamas in Israel, to the proxies it uses to assault shipping in the Red Sea, to its assassination plots on British soil, it has constantly sought to undermine the global order. With the launch of a direct assault upon Israel, it has crossed into outright, explicit and undeniable attacks upon the West. The time for appeasement is now over. Britain must stand in full behind Israel and its right to defend itself. The Iranian proxies threatening shipping in the Red Sea must be utterly defeated. Western leaders who proclaimed their solidarity with the Jewish state in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 pogrom have begun to lose their stomach for the defense of the ideals they professed so strongly to hold. As Israel set about neutralizing the genocidal threat posed by Hamas, and ensuring the safety of its people, this support began to ebb away, even as antisemites took to the streets in Western capitals, baying for blood. It is time for us to remember who our friends are, and where our interests lie. The Iranian regime is an autocracy that threatens all our values. Britain must stand with Israel to the last.