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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/01/united-states-strikes-attack-iran-khamenei/
The Clasped Hands of Israel and America
(Washington Post) George F. Will - The Hamas paragliders, who were tentacles of Iran, began today's war on Oct. 7, 2023, igniting one of history's most spectacular backfires. Iran's regime and its terrorism multipliers, Hamas and Hizbullah, have unintentionally magnified Israel's security. And Iran's regime, whose mantra since its inception in 1979 has been "Death to America," is near death by the clasped hands of Israel and America. The at least 30,000 protesters who perished in Iran's streets in January did not die in vain. Iran's protesters dramatically underscored the regime's barbarism, so those who today regret the regime's demise reveal their barbarism. Some say that U.S. involvement in Iran constitutes a "war of choice." That casually bandied phrase rarely fits untidy reality. Donald Trump's administration has chosen not to wager U.S. safety on Iran's abandoning its multi-decade pursuit of nuclear weapons, or on Iran's acquiring them but not really meaning "Death to America." For Israel, the death of Iran's self-proclaimed genocidal regime was a choice only in the sense that Israel chose to believe the regime when it called Israel a "one-bomb country." In 1939, Adolf Hitler said a world war would mean "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." Israel exists because Hitler meant that. Israel's survival depends on forever thinking that nothing is unthinkable.