Striking Iran

President Biden has been frustrated by Israel’s reluctance to share the details of their plan for retaliation against Iran.

Is anyone surprised? After Iran had directly fired hundreds of missiles into Israel for the second time, Israel was warned by the Biden administration not to target Iran’s nuclear facilities or its oil network.

Thousands of rockets fired by Hezbollah into Israel for a year was met with little comment. When Israel decided to fight back, the warnings began.

Once more we hear the familiar refrain: Israel has every right to defend itself. Not said but seen by actions, Israel is not allowed to win.

Israel has decided to “damn the torpedoes” and go straight after Hezbollah with everything it has. Israel is ignoring the calls for useless diplomacy, for de-escalation, for limits, for a cease-fire.

Israel has successfully decimated the Hezbollah leadership, killed thousands of its terrorist soldiers and destroyed a significant portion of its weapons. As a result, Hezbollah has asked for a truce, and Iran is without its primary proxy defender.

How will Israel respond to Iran’s attack? It has promised, the strike on Iran will be “lethal, precise and surprising”. Agreeing not to target Iran’s oil or nuclear infrastructure, Israel has a better target, one which will free the Iranian people, make Israel safer and defang the terrorists throughout the Middle East and beyond. Israel should target Iran’s despotic, jihadist, fundamentalist leadership.

With the possible change to a less supportive US leadership, the time to strike Iran is now.