Americans watched in shock and disbelief this weekend as horrific videos spread across social media documenting the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
They can start by imposing a maximum-pressure campaign on the terror axis of evil that carried out this pogrom while providing maximum support to Israel’s efforts to destroy it.terror invasion of Israel — by land, air, and sea — using improvised platforms from armed paragliders to mortar dropping drones — there is little doubt that the Islamic Republic of Iran had a hand in this massacre.
Israel supporters, pro-Palestinian protesters trade violent threats for second straight day in NYC: ‘They’re terrorists’ Since June, the Biden administration has provided at least $50 billion in sanctions relief to Iran — including $10 billion made available from Iraq, $6 billion from South Korea, potentially $6.7 billion from the International Monetary Fund and a halt to oil-sanctions enforcement providing Tehran more than $25 billion in annualized oil revenue. The White House was hoping to buy a short-term delay on Tehran producing weapons-grade uranium.
President Biden’s strategic framework must quickly shift from threat appeasement to threat elimination. That starts with cutting off the financial oxygen that allows this terror octopus to breathe — from the tentacles in Gaza and Lebanon to the head in Tehran.The $16 billion transferred this summer to bank accounts in Oman and Qatar for Iran’s use should be re-frozen. US sanctions on Iranian oil exports should be enforced.
Israel also needs time and space to prepare and execute its military response — and then confidence in sustained US support in the weeks and possibly months ahead. To its credit, the administration is sending a US carrier strike group to provide additional military deterrence — an effort to deter ballistic missile attacks from Syria or Iran. It’s also signaling a willingness to provide Israel with a long list of military resupply requests to sustain a weeks-long conflict with Iran’s proxies in Gaza and potentially Lebanon.aren’t restricted to the rape, mass murder and hostage-taking of Israeli civilians.
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