Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Israel, the West, and the failed strategy against Iran

Yochanan Visser is a freelance colunnist who is director of Missing Peace Israel, an independent news agency. He is author of a book on the cognitive war against Israel, was a columnist on INN and is a regular op-ed contributor to YNET, JPost and De Volkskrant in Holland.

Israel and Iran are engaged in a multi-front war that could at any time develop into a regional conflict of unprecedented proportions, as we will show.

Perhaps the biggest problem for Israel is the attitude of the world community, which is overwhelmingly obsessed with the war against Hamas in Gaza and also appears to be blind to the nuclear danger that Iran poses to the entire world.

The United States and Israel agreed at the end of June to conduct a strategic dialogue after a long visit to Washington DC by Yoav Gallant, the Israeli Minister of Defense

Gallant held a series of conversations with senior US government officials among them Lloyd Austin the US Secretary of Defense, Jake Sullivan the US National Security Advisor, Amos Hochstein the US envoy to Lebanon, and, Antony Blinken the Secretary of State.

After the meeting with Austin, Gallant made an unusually dramatic appeal to the United States, saying that time is running out to halt Iran's nuclear program while warning Austin that now is the time for the US to take action against Iran and its nuclear program. READ MORE