Thursday, June 27, 2024

Deterrence: Destroy governments that host Iranian attacks on Israel

Robert Harris is a news editor who has worked in television and newspapers in the

United States, Asia and the Middle East.

In Gaza, and possibly soon in Lebanon, Israel will be again forced to wage war according to Iran’s schedule and deadly playbook.

In Tehran, the Iranians created Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia. The Iranians also armed them, trained them, command them and now decide when the next war with Israel will begin.

Iran also will decide that Arab civilians must die, as Israel is purposely drawn into combat inside Lebanese villages and cities.

Additionally, Tehran pulls the strings on the armies of Jew-hating Moslem and Christian demonstrators on the streets of Europe and America.

In Lebanon, Iran will seek to kill Israeli soldiers using underground tunnels, well-prepared defensive positions, anti-tank emplacements and booby-trapped buildings and roads.

These cross-border battles have become the forever-wars that Israel seems condemned to fight, losing hundreds of soldiers during each round, in exchange for a hurried ceasefire which the non-Jewish world never intends to enforce.

So perhaps it is time for Israel to get off the Iranian merry-go-round of endless wars and find ways to act swiftly and decisively to end the threats from Lebanon and surrounding countries.

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