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Exposing the Delusions that Drive U.S. Mideast Policy
(New York Post) Editorial - Let's all give thanks to the Israel Defense Forces for the operations that have not only gutted Hizbullah, but at long last took out the thugs most responsible for the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that slaughtered 220 Marines and 21 other U.S. service members. Seven U.S. presidents had failed to bring that basic justice. While Western "friends" of Israel still keep mewling that the only path to Mideast peace starts with the creation of a Palestinian state, the barriers to Mideast peace are now: 1) The Tehran regime and its imperialist ambitions, and 2) the refusal to recognize that Israel can and will continue to exist. Israel's Arab neighbors have slowly been coming to accept the latter truth, their attention focused by the growing Iranian threat. Mideast peace progressed by leaps and bounds with the Abraham Accords, but slowed to a crawl when the Biden team re-embraced the two-state delusion, plus the even more fantastical obsession with reaching an entente with the "Death to America" Tehran regime. After Hizbullah shot thousands of missiles into Israel and the IDF finally began to move against Hizbullah, Team Biden rushed to call for a ceasefire - between Israel and Lebanon, not even daring to call out Hizbullah. This war was supposed to see Iran's proxies keep everyone busy while Iran went nuclear. Instead, the war is steadily destroying those proxies.