Weeping for a Terror Regime

“Hands off Iran,” they said. “Iran would never use the bomb,” they insisted. “It’s just Israeli fear-mongering,” they preached from protest stages and podcast studios.

And now? Iran’s nuclear facilities lie in ruins. The most dangerous regime in the Middle East has just suffered a historic blow—and the response from progressives and Democratic pundits isn’t relief. It’s outrage. Mourning. Disgust that the US would dare eliminate the genocidal threat aimed at a democratic ally. You’d think someone had bombed a daycare, not the uranium dreams of a state that’s spent decades funding terror.

Even Bill Clinton who spent years minimizing the Iranian threat—jumped on the bandwagon, using this moment to take yet another swipe at Netanyahu. He even went so far as to sneer that now Netanyahu will “stay in power forever,” as if Israeli democracy doesn’t exist, as if Israelis are mindless drones unable to think for themselves.

Unbelievable. As if this country hasn’t been screaming its dissatisfaction for the past two years. As if hundreds of thousands of Israelis haven’t been protesting weekly, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to Haifa. As if freedom of speech and dissent aren’t alive and well here—arguably more so than in many of the Western democracies wagging their fingers.

This isn’t about Netanyahu anymore. It’s about a sickness in the discourse—a reflexive, almost compulsive need to make every single Israeli security move about him. A herd mentality that borders on parody. A regime obsessed with erasing Israel just lost its nuclear capabilities, and people are still muttering about Bibi?

You don’t have to like Netanyahu—his conduct has baffled me too. I find myself wondering what happened to the headstrong, articulate 27-year-old who once stood proudly at the UN. Where did he go? He’s been in power too long, that much is clear. But the sheer fixation on him, even in moments of historic significance, reveals something deeper. This isn’t about concern for Israeli democracy. It’s the latest form of the pile-on. It’s the same onslaught Israel faces on every front, just dressed up in domestic terms.

And Israelis themselves aren’t immune. Some on the far-left are so consumed by their hatred of Netanyahu that they can’t bring themselves to utter a single word about Iran’s defeat without first qualifying it with “But Bibi…”

I’ve been in Israel for two weeks now. Nearly every cab ride turns into a passionate rant about Bibi. And I listen. The anger is real. The frustration is valid. Many genuinely believe that Netanyahu is to blame for how the world sees us. That if he were gone, if Palestinians were treated differently, the hatred would ease. Maybe the world would understand us better.

But none of them live abroad.

None of them walk through airports, college campuses, or comment sections being told they deserve to die—not because of policy, but because they’re Jewish. They think Bibi is the cause. But he’s just the excuse.

And what’s aggressively left out of the conversation is how Jews have been treated by Arabs long before 1948. Long before checkpoints. Long before the word “occupation” ever entered the debate. Nobody acknowledges how we are still vilified today, it’s institutionalized, it’s out in the open, it’s just not that difficult to see. And the fact that this terrifying reality is always left out of the conversation should alarm all of you.

For centuries, Jews in the Arab world lived as dhimmis, permitted to exist, but never as equals. Second-class by law. Subject to taxes, bans, humiliation. We couldn’t defend ourselves. We couldn’t build higher, earn more, or speak too loudly. And when we dared dream of sovereignty? The answer was violence. Pogroms. Massacres. Expulsions.

That truth ruins the narrative.

It complicates the easy picture of Israel as the aggressor. It forces people to ask: what came first—Israeli policy, or Arab rejection of Jewish equality?

And now, as many on the Left mourn the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program, that same old pattern is playing out again. A terror regime was dealt a devastating blow but instead of relief, the reaction has been grief. Outrage. Blame. And somehow, even now, Netanyahu is the villain of the story.

Yes, removing Bibi may fix a few serious issues internally. But let’s not pretend it will fix aggression and terror towards Israel; it will not fix the belief that Israel was born in sin…

And as such, this isn’t about one leader. It never was.

It’s about the fact that Jews no longer accept second-class status. That we fight back. That we survived. And for some, that’s the real crime.

Now, let’s focus on Iran since too many seem to have forgotten who we’re dealing with.

This is a regime that:

*Funds Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad—the same monsters who butchered civilians and burned families alive on October 7.

*Arms Hezbollah with over 150,000 rockets aimed at Israeli population centers.

*Operates terror proxies in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen—encircling Israel from every angle.

* Orchestrated the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, killing 85 Jews. Iran’s reach isn’t regional, it’s global.

*Orchestrated the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis, and still celebrates it as a national triumph.

* Targets Jewish and Western dissidents for assassination across Europe and the US.

* Launches cyberattacks on Israeli hospitals and civilian infrastructure.

* Declares openly, repeatedly, that it seeks Israel’s annihilation.

* Funds the Houthis in Yemen, who’ve fired missiles at Israel and disrupted global trade through the Red Sea.

This is not my personal theory or paranoia. Iran’s entire national identity as a regime is built on exporting death and wiping Israel off the map.

And still, people will point out that Iran doesn’t even share a border with Israel!

Exactly. That’s what makes it even more insane. Iran has spent billions–billions trying to destroy a country it doesn’t even touch. You can’t call this defense; it’s antisemitism in strategic form–obsessive, well-funded and relentless.

And now, after years of denial, appeasement, and endless warnings, a bold strike finally erases the nuclear sword hanging over Israel—and what does the Left say? Not “thank God,” but “how dare you.” They’re not even hiding it anymore. For some, it seems even Israel’s continued existence is cause for complaint.

Yes, many would have preferred the hostages to come home first. Me too! That pain is real; it’s unfathomable and unbearable. But do you know what intelligence led to this timing? What quiet backchannel deals were in motion? No. You don’t. None of us do. So maybe sit with the enormity of what just happened before casually calling it a PR stunt.

This wasn’t about Netanyahu. This wasn’t a deflection. This was justice delayed, finally delivered. And if your first instinct is to cry for Iran’s bomb, rather than breathe a sigh of relief for a world spared, then let’s stop pretending you’re anti-war. You’re just against Israel ever existing.

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Extra Reading:

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