Israel Is Looking to End the War Iran Started

Iran has been waging a bloody jihad against the West since the mullahs seized control of the country in 1979.

“Israel is doing the west an extraordinary service.” Melanie Phillips, writing from Israel.

No one is asking the US for American boots on the ground. No one is asking the US for regime change or nation building.

This is not Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq or Ukraine.

The ask is simple, military aid in removing an immediate, existential threat from the region and the world. And most certainly America.

Melanie Phillips: No-one here doubts for a moment that Israel will win this war, even though it may be protracted and the price may be very steep. Israel hasn’t started a war with Iran: it has started the end of Iran’s war against Israel and the west because the Jewish state believes it has no choice. Many have never understood that the past 20 months of events in Gaza, since the atrocities of October 7 2023, are part of a multi-front war of extermination waged against Israel by Iran through its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the disputed territories of the “West Bank” … In fact, if Israel now smashes the Iran-based Shia axis this will reshape the Middle East for the better, transform the global political order and remove an unconscionable threat not just to Israel but to the west too — including the clowns in the House of Commons.“When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy,” said Iran’s supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, in 2023. In Britain, the security service has warned of an “extraordinary threat” of Iranian terrorist attacks. Israel is doing the west an extraordinary service — for which the Jewish state is paying in blood — that much of the west still obdurately refuses to realise (Substack).

IRGC terrorist Hajizadeh, 2023:

“God willing we’ll be able to kill Trump, Pompeo, McKenzie and other US commanders”

He is now dead thanks to Israel.

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It’s crystal clear.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: “Like I have said before, our people punched [America] on the face, in the full sense of the word. Our nation defeated them. The Iranian people…”

Crowd: “Allah Akbar! Khamenei is the leader! Death to those who oppose the Rule of the Jurisprudent! Death to America! Death to England! Death to the hypocrites and infidels! Death to Israel!”

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Khamenei: “In the new order that I am talking about, America will no longr have any important role. It will be isolated…”

Crowd: “Death to America!”

Khamenei: “Yes, it will happen. Death to America will happen. Some people say: ‘By chanting “Death to America,” you bring America’s animosity upon yourself.’ I say that this is not true. When America began its hostility towards Iran [in the 1953 coup], nobody had been chanting ‘Death to America.'”

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Brendan O’Neill of Spiked: The debate about Israel/Iran is at risk of being derailed by disinformation. Gaslighting swirls all around it. This is a crazed stab at ‘regime change’, cry Israel’s critics, and we all know what hellish things spring from ‘regime change’. It is an ‘illegal war’ and a ‘war of aggression’, insists the left. And the trump card: it’s Iraq all over again. Both the digital right and digital left are ‘invoking the spectre of Iraq’, in the words of the New York Times. ‘Welcome to Iraq 2.0’, says the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Only worse – Israel’s ‘unprovoked attack’ on Iran has the potential to be ‘far, far more catastrophic’, apparently. The moral evasion on display here is off the charts. To compare Israel’s fight against its fanatical tormentors in Tehran with America and Britain’s vain and ruinous war on Iraq is to be wilfully blind to both historical truth and moral principle. First, there’s the fact that Saddam’s regime did not attack us. This was a shattered nation, broken by the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s and the West’s sanctions and bombing raids of the 1990s. In 2003, Iraq barely posed a threat to its neighbours, far less to mighty America or Britain. Washington and London’s depiction of this shell of a regime as a threat to the world was the blackest of black propaganda. It was the lie that unleashed untold horrors. The Israel-Iran clash is wholly the reverse of this. Iran has attacked Israel ceaselessly and ferociously. Its neo-fascist proxies in Hamas sent a 6,000-strong army into Israel in October 2023 where they raped and murdered hundreds. Its most important proxy – Hezbollah – followed up this pogrom with barrages of missiles into northern Israel. Between Hamas’s pogrom and June of last year, Hezbollah fired 5,000 rockets and other projectiles at Israel. This caused the evacuation of 60,000 people and the deaths of scores of civilians, including 12 Druze kids. Iran itself has directly fired missiles at Israel: 120 ballistic missiles in April 2024; 200 in October 2024 (Spiked).