Forty-seven years of chanting “death to America” and “death to Israel” have consequences. Mass executions of innocent Iranians who simply wish for basic freedoms have consequences. Funding major terrorist organizations like Hezbollah, which undermines the Lebanese government, and supporting the Houthis in Yemen and Hamas in Gaza have consequences. Pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into building hundreds of kilometers of tunnels in Gaza and backing October 7th has consequences. Providing ballistic missiles to a devastated country like Yemen, while Yemenis are experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century, has consequences. By now, the point should be clear.

It is time for action. We should ask ourselves whether it is acceptable to dig tunnels beneath a dense civilian population and kidnap both the living and the dead. And why should their sponsors be allowed to get away with enriching uranium while openly threatening to destroy Israel and kill every last breathing Jew?

As a side note, supporting Assad’s regime left Ayatollah with at least 500,000 deaths on his hands. That is on top of the tens of thousands of Iranians executed during brutal crackdowns over the past 47 years. So how exactly is confronting such a regime illegitimate? And who else would do it?

Pouring billions of dollars into Western media and........

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