On April 13, 2024, Iran, deploying more than 300 drones and missiles, launched a premeditated aerial assault on Israeli military and population centers. While ninety-nine percent of the weapons were intercepted, Irans’s attack is equivalent to a formal “Declaration of War” against Israel.

Since 1979 and the Iranian revolution, Iran and Israel have been undeclared enemies as Iran has used its proxy terrorist groups in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen to attack Israel. However, and most significantly, the April 13th attack was launched directly from an emboldened Iran.

Irans’s belligerence necessitates a significant military response against Iran’s infrastructure and nuclear program regardless of the Biden Administration’s duplicity. Iran’s lack of success on April 13th has exposed the weakness and incompetence of its military. A massive military counterattack would cripple or perhaps end Iran’s long-term ambitions for Arab and Middle East hegemony.

Three and half millennia of Jewish history is replete with examples of weakness on Israel’s part that further emboldened its enemies with dire consequences for the Jewish people. A lack of retaliation by Israel will embolden the mullahs of Iran with dire consequences for not only Israel but the nations of the Middle East and the world.

The Hamas attack of October 7, 2024 and Iran’s de facto declaration of war on April 13, 2024 are the direct outcome of the Obama/Biden policy of appeasement and willingness to allow Iran to become a hegemonic nuclear power. They are the 21st-century equivalent of the spineless European appeasers of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

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