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It has been plain for sometime – even for those who have eyes but see not, ears but hear not – that Israel’s peace plan is to rid the Middle East of terrorist groups supported by Iran that have pledged to destroy Israel.
When news hit the airwaves that Israel had in an airstrike degraded much of Hezbollah’s strike capacity and rid the Middle East of Hassan Nasrullah, Hezbollah’s Secretary General, tears did not flow from Western eyes.
The Telegraph In a lead piece, “Israel has exposed the lie at the heart of Starmer and Biden’s foreign policy,” noted, “Jerusalem has already nearly destroyed Hamas’s organized military capabilities in Gaza and, combined with “Operation Grim Beeper” just over a week ago, has repeatedly imposed shock and awe on Hezbollah’s top cadres and infrastructure.”
The fearless Telegraph pointedly noted the obvious: “Britain and America once understood what it meant to fight a multi-front war. They did so together successfully in two World Wars, and then again during the Cold War.
“Today, Messrs Biden [President of the United States] and Starmer [leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom have trouble with this concept. Fortunately, Israel’s leaders do not. For the good of the West as a whole, Israel is now decimating our terrorist enemies in the Middle East.”
The chatter within the Biden-Harris administration that aggressive war measures by Israel would “broaden the war” was muted. In June of 2024, Connecticut Commentary noted that Biden had refashioned his campaign position on Israel and Hamas: His “refashioned campaign position is that Hamas has been sufficiently rebuked, and the government of Israel, impudently resolved to continue the war to its appointed end, should yield to the United States, the United Nations, and other peace loving groups, in a collective effort to cut short the war and reimpose, as quickly as possible, a so called ‘two state solution’ in the geographic heart of Israel that has for the past few decades been a murderously proven failure.”
Following Israel’s most recent attack on Hezbollah’s political and military structure, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, now running for president on the Democrat Party Ticket, curtsied in Prime Mister Benjamin Netanyahu’s direction, a painful gesture for both peacemakers. Previously, both had objected to Netanyahu’s aggressive military actions and, more importantly to them, his obduracy in accepting their preferred “two state solution” to quell military activity in the area.
Moments after Nasrallah was dispatched, Harris, on her way to visit the US southern border for the first time, offered the following statement: “Hassan Nasrallah was a terrorist with American blood on his hands. Across decades, his leadership of Hezbollah destabilized the Middle East and led to the killing of countless innocent people in Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and around the world. Today, Hezbollah’s victims have a measure of justice. I have an unwavering commitment to the security of Israel. I will always support Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.”
Harris did not mention in her official statement that Hezbollah, under the “fiery” direction of Nasrallah, was linked to the deaths of 23 people in the bombings of two American embassy buildings in 1984. A year earlier, a suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb at a building that served as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Battalion Landing Team – BLT 1/8) of the 2nd Marine Division, killing 220 marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. The bombing made this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Washington declared Hezbollah a terror group in October 1997.
Both Harris and Biden affirmed their “unwavering commitment” to Israel’s security. Both said they would “always support Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups.” Harris cautiously added that she and Biden “do not want to see conflict in the Middle East escalate into a broader regional war,” according to a report in the Times of Israel, and were determined to achieve “a diplomatic solution” to the war between Israel and its implacable terrorist enemies: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen and, of course, Iran the leading sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East.
A realist – or, as Democrats sometimes prefer, a pragmatic – foreign policy on the Middle East would understand that Iran, the “ring of fire” terrorists committed to Israel’s destruction, China and Putin’s Russia are permanent, new axis-of-evil enemies of the United States, and that Israel is what it had been ever since the country was first recognized by President Harry Truman in 1948 – a bellwether of democracy.
Realists would also recognize that, at this point, calls for a “two state solution” in the Middle East, a boiling cauldron of genocidal hatred on the part of Shia Arabs that can only be slaked by the destruction of Israel, are premature. Throughout history, peace has been the prerogative of those victorious in war. Warrior victors determine a future peace.
Therefore, there is but one question the answer to which must determine U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: Who will determine the shape of peace in Israel and environs – Israel or Iran?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now answered that question.
