Conflict in Middle East Is Result of Power Vacuum

03.10.2024 05:15

After launching 200 missiles against Israel, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on X that his country does not want a war. If the launching of hundreds of missiles against the Israeli civilian population is, as Pezeshkian insinuates, almost a gesture of friendship, I wonder what they will do the day they want to start a war.

The Iranian president also asks Israel not to respond to the attack. Or to the defense, as the Iranians term it. Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the last word, insinuated that Iran had merely defended itself from an alleged Israeli attack, supposedly alluding to the Hezbollah leaders that Israel has managed to wipe off the map. There are a lot of things you can learn about the conflict just by reading the Iranians’ comments to both leaders’ messages.

Pezeshkian came to power as a reformist, but without much desire to reform, and his low profile seems to anger everyone. Those who are more radical accuse him of being soft on Israel, while a surprising number of Iranian supporters answer him by calling on Israel to hasten the fall of the Islamic republic, in order to return to the regime they had before the Islamist revolution.

The climate surrounding Khamenei is not very different. The response to his message ranges from complaints from the most anti-Zionist, who even accuse him of having agreed to the attack with Netanyahu (I thought it was forbidden to drink whiskey in Iran), to Iranian nationalists quite dubious of the Islamist republic, who ask him, in reference to the two Lebanese terrorist leaders, why the hell Iran is defending itself from the murder of two guys who are not even Iranian.

In the meantime, the United States has once again shown its full support for Israel’s defense, while the EU has once again done what it normally does: support Israel’s right to defend itself and then immediately call for a cessation of the war. EU Foreign Affairs chief Josep Borrell’s statements on the Middle East would be wonderful if he were the pope, but perhaps someone should tell him that he is not.

At this moment in the conflict, and I am aware that a thousand more things can happen before this article is published, the main problem in the escalation is the nonexistence of a president of the United States. Biden is an outgoing president. Harris is an incoming disgrace. And the power vacuum seriously hurts Israel and the West, and fascinates Iran and all the Islamic terror groupies inundating the scene.

The most important reaction from the White House was offered by Jake Sullivan, and, as he is more than likely accustomed to Biden’s dithering and Harris’ hysterical smirk, the national security leader was blunt in his support for Israel, offering relevant details on how the United States and Tel Aviv are working on a response that will bring “severe consequences” to Iran for the attack. Cooperation between the two countries in intercepting Iranian missiles has proven crucial in lessening the damage from Iran’s savage and stupid attack.

However, it was not so long ago that it was Biden who was to blame for Netanyahu’s cooling his military response against Iran, almost to the point of scrapping it altogether, after the Iranian attacks last spring. This double-dealing from contemporary Democrats is seriously damaging Israel’s military image and consequently encouraging its enemies, who, by the way, are also our enemies. We owe allegiance to the Israelis for many reasons, but in any case, if anyone believes that the foundational madness of the Islamic republic, which is to destroy Israel, and its whole orgy of nuclear proliferation will end at Israel, he is either a complete fool, or just plain crazy.

Let’s hope that Biden will just accept Israel’s defense plans and obstruct them as little as possible, although in his case, it is difficult. However horrible the war may be, the best thing that could happen is a swift and forceful joint military response, encouraging the counterrevolution in Iran and opening the door to the fall of the Islamic Republic of ’79, and deflating the Iranian attempt to threaten, day in and day out, with its nuclear arsenal.

Everything else has already been tried and gone wrong.

Finally, as a successful military geostrategic policy, my suggestion is that you always do the opposite of what António Guterres, the UN secretary general, says, who when he is not sobbing and screaming against climate change, is sobbing and screaming against Israel, like with his pacifist, disloyal, absurd, and inappropriate statement on Tuesday afternoon, almost as bombs exploded over Israel. I have it on good authority that the man is about to start speaking Arabic.

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