On Sunday, Israel reportedly killed Hezbollah terror boss Ali Musa Daqduq in Syria, bringing a measure of justice to the US military’s Iraq war veterans.
In 2007, Daqduq and his underlings infiltrated a US base in Karbala, Iraq, killing one soldier and kidnapping — and later brutally executing — four more. CENTCOM sources on Monday expressed confidence that Daqduq had in fact been slain.
Israeli forces have killed hundreds of terrorists with American blood on their hands since Iran launched its seven-front war against the Jewish state last year.
Yet their achievements have made President Biden and his advisers uncomfortable — because they expose the truth that the Biden team has refused to countenance.
Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies. And when Israel defeats its enemies, America wins.
Biden and his team are not alone in their discomfort. For over 30 years, the US foreign policy establishment produced one failed policy after another, because its members collectively refused to reconcile themselves to the fact that Israel is America’s greatest ally in the Middle East.
nstead, they all insisted that Israel is the source of regional instability and that the only way to forge peace was for Israel to appease its enemies — all of whom seek its annihilation.
Since that is a self-evidently impossible goal, all of those efforts failed.
Cycles of US-induced appeasement, instability, terror and war led to further US-induced appeasement, and the pattern circled on and on and on.
Donald Trump is the only US president in the past 30 years who insisted that reality be his guide.
His willingness to recognize Israel as America’s greatest regional ally enabled him to see that the more powerful Israel is, the less America has to do. Conversely, the weaker Israel is, the more America has to do.
For his part, Benjamin Netanyahu is the only Israeli leader in the past generation who has refused to play along with the delusions of America’s elite.
Only Netanyahu has refused to accept blame for the pathologies of Israel’s enemies. He alone has refused to empower them for fear of unpleasant confrontations with Washington.
Eight years ago, Trump and Netanyahu’s complementary worldviews set their nations on a course to previously unimagined achievements.
The 2020 Abraham Accords were the product of four years of unyielding joint determination to build regional peace through American support for a strong Israel and to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed state.
That momentum toward regional peace ended precipitously when Biden took office.
Biden’s resolve to restore delusion to America’s Middle East policy rescued, enriched and emboldened Iran and its terror proxies.
The same delusion paved the way to Oct. 7 and the seven-front regional war that followed.
Trump’s election promises that reality will soon return to US Middle East policy.
Netanyahu said Sunday that he and the president-elect spoke three times since Trump’s electoral triumph on Nov. 5, and that their discussions centered on the “Iranian threat.”
“We see eye to eye on the Iranian threat in all its aspects, and on the dangers they reflect,” Netanyahu said. “We also see the great opportunities facing Israel, in the area of peace and its expansion, and in other areas.”
Biden and his team have blocked Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear installations, arguing that such a strike will cause a regional war that will force direct US military involvement.
Trump recognizes that by attacking Iran’s nuclear installations, Israel will end the regional war that has been raging for 400 days — and enable the United States to stay out of the hostilities.
Netanyahu’s mention of the “expansion of peace” in his remarks spoke to what the day after the war under Trump will bring.
With firm American support restored, Israel will secure the peace by controlling Gaza and a security zone in south Lebanon, and Trump will reinstate the enforcement of US economic sanctions on Iranian oil exports.
Without their nuclear installations, their terror proxies or their oil revenues, and faced with an American administration committed to standing with Israel, Iran’s jihadist regime will soon lose its grip on power.
The long-suffering Iranian people will finally be in a position to overthrow and replace the ayatollahs.
With the threat of Iran removed, and Israel the unquestioned victor in the war, Trump and Netanyahu will usher in a new era of peace.
Their historic partnership will transform the Middle East from a zone of war and poverty into a region of peace, stability and prosperity.