Israel Is Doing the World A Huge Favor By Bombing Iran

The Biggest Remaining Threat to Israel Is From Within

In bombing Iran’s nuclear sites, decapitating members of its leadership and liquidating key nuclear scientists, Israel finally did what needed to be done. Iran is a fascist police state that brutally suppresses its own citizens under the auspices of upholding a puritanical strain of Islam. The Persian nation is a state sponsor of terrorism and a direct threat to the United States, which it lovingly calls, “The Great Satan”.

Moreover, Iran has genocidal intentions toward Israel that has made their becoming a nuclear state untenable. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said the “barbaric, wolflike,” and “infanticidal” Israeli regime has “no cure but to be annihilated.” That statement alone is just cause for Israel’s actions to defang Iran before it could potentially carry out its homicidal religious fantasies.

If you look at maps of Israel and Iran together, Iran looks somewhat like a gigantic Persian cat leaping towards Israel, which has the appearance of a tiny mouse waiting to be kitty’s lunch. The real-world dynamic is more like the cartoon Tom & Jerry, with the wily mouse always outsmarting and besting the larger predator.

Israel’s initial attack was extraordinary and will enter the annals of great military achievements. Similar to Ukraine’s recent drone attack on Russian air bases, Israel’s Mossad smuggled drones into Iran. As Israeli fighter jets were racing towards Iran’s nuclear sites and military bases, Mossad operatives released these hidden drones to take out Iran’s remaining missile defense and anti-aircraft units.

This brilliant maneuver left Iran’s defense assets, military leaders and nuclear scientists exposed to Israeli airstrikes. The Israeli’s tactical creativity was reminiscent of the recent pager explosions in Lebanon that dismantled thousands of Hezbollah fighters.

In its predictable flowery language, Iran promised revenge. The Guardian Council, in a state television broadcast, promised “a crushing and tooth-breaking response.”

However, with their leadership in disarray after Israel’s successful assassination campaign, Iran toothlessly fired off 100 drones, which Israel shot down without breaking a sweat. Iran followed up the next day by hurling salvoes of ballistic missiles at Israel, with a few successful strikes.

Iran can do some real damage to Israeli cities and military sites, however Israel has a sophisticated, layered missile defense system, while Iran can be struck with impunity, as Israel has repeatedly shown. Not to mention Israel is integrating the potentially game-changing Iron-beam laser defense system, which allows unlimited defense for as little as a few dollars per shot. The new system reportedly was already used successfully to down Hezbollah drones. And, if it truly becomes a scorched-earth death match, Israel has a nuclear arsenal, while Iran came up a day late and an A-bomb short.

Meanwhile, the already-devastated Iranian proxy militia, Hezbollah, responded today by offering rhetorical bombast, but notably responded with no bombs. The once fearsome crown jewel of Iran’s “axis of resistance” was reduced to writing a whiny press release condemning Israel.

Hamas, for its part, was too busy to respond. Presumably, its remaining leadership was hiding in terror-tunnels that the group barbarically built under hospitals, in which they cruelly used Palestinian civilians as human shields to provoke public backlash in the West.

The ruthless mullahs and ayatollahs who terrorize Iran are an ugly pockmark anathema to Israeli security and global peace. Those who love liberty, pluralism and democracy should cheer Israel’s bold actions. The fundamentalist Iranian regime is deeply misogynistic and treats women like pets. Iran is also at war with real pets, cracking down on “the crime” of dog walking, with regime zealots considering owning pet dogs a product of Western influence. When protesters bravely stand up to the junta, they are violently suppressed.

Concurrently, Islamic morality police in Iran hunt down LGBTQ people, jailing and murdering them for sport. The LGBTQ community is faced with social death and driven underground for basic survival. Gay men face coercive government-sponsored sex-change surgeries so they can fit into the ruling clique’s strict male/female sex binary. The BBC reported:

Iran is one of a handful of countries where homosexual acts are punishable by death. Clerics do, however accept the idea that a person may be trapped in a body of the wrong sex. So, homosexuals can be pushed into having gender reassignment surgery - and to avoid it many flee the country.

The Iranian people deserve better than to waste their lives suffering in the Islamic version of Gilead from the Handmaid’s Tale. Israel will do this tormented population a great favor if they ignite regime change. If the theocracy could be eliminated, a season of peace could potentially flower in the Middle East. It won’t happen overnight, but without Iran threatening to wipe Israel off the map, the seeds for diplomacy could finally be planted.

Israel’s biggest remaining obstacle is penetrating Fordow, Iran’s fortified nuclear site protected by a mountain and buried a half mile below the surface. Israel’s most obvious move would be repeatedly bombing the site, each time creating a larger crater, until the site collapses.

This successful maneuver was used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last year to penetrate a bunker and eliminate Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah. The IDF used 80-tons of bunker busting bombs in this successful effort. However, Fordow is a significantly harder target to penetrate, without America assisting Israel with 20,000-30,000 pound bombs. Israel lacks the aircraft needed to carry bombs of such enormous weight.

I’ve long-thought Israel would need to destroy Fordow from the inside. The way to do this would be decimating Iran’s air defenses to provide prolonged air cover, destroy defensive military capabilities by bombing bases, filling the sky with drones to attack remaining Iranian soldiers, create havoc by killing Iran’s top military leaders and cratering all roads leading to Fordow. Several of these steps have already occurred and could create a perimeter that would buy time for Israeli commandos to audaciously enter Fordow with explosives, which they could detonate inside the complex.

Another possibility is that Israel would destroy every part of Iran’s nuclear program other than Fordow. Then, President Donald Trump could leverage Iran’s humiliating defeat to strong-arm Iran into a nuclear deal to monitor Fordow.

Trump seemed to give credence to this option when he wrote on Truth Social: “I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done.” Faced with the increasing possibility of regime change, Iran would be insane not to take a deal.

Predictably, bigoted antisemites, often on the left, were caterwauling on social media about Israel’s attack. Their hatred of Israel is so all-consuming, that too many upheld poor Iran as a victim of Israeli aggression.

Their protestations, however, are not credible. Earlier this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations. The BBC reported:

It says Iran's "many failures" to provide the IAEA with full answers about its undeclared nuclear material and activities constitutes non-compliance. It also expresses concern about Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium, which can be used to make reactor fuel but also nuclear weapons.

It follows a report from the IAEA last week which criticized Iran's "general lack of co-operation" and said it had enough uranium enriched to 60% purity, near weapons grade, to potentially make nine nuclear bombs.

Given the imminent and dire threat Israel faces from a nuclear Iran, this week’s preventative attack was both moral and necessary. As the Tom Nichols wrote in The Atlantic:

If the Iranians were, as the Israelis claim, just a few weeks from assembling a small nuclear arsenal, and the ability to strike that capacity was receding from Israeli reach, then the argument for preemption is strong—especially because Iranian leaders have so often expressed their wish to wipe Israel from the map.

Israel is on the cusp of emerging from the horrors of October 7, and the subsequent humanitarian nightmare in Gaza, militarily stronger than ever. If it cripples Iran, or forces regime change, it would essentially have eradicated virtually all existential external threats. Not only did it defeat Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, but Israel had the good fortune of its archenemy, the Assad regime, crumble in Syria.

The only remaining threat to Israel is Turkey. However, in the recent dustup in Asia, India’s use of Israeli weapons trounced Pakistan’s Turkish drones. The Turkish failure was so pronounced that the American Enterprise Institute declared, “Turkey’s efforts to position itself a military export power may be over”.

Ironically, Israel’s biggest enemy might be Israel itself. If it completes its vanquishing of Iran and there is no longer an external threat, Israel can no longer credibly continue its heartbreaking and increasingly unnecessary campaign in Gaza. The explanation of defending national security will be stripped away, with Hamas having lost its powerful patron to the east.

With Iran out of the picture, it would be an opportune time for Israel to strike a deal with Hamas to return the remaining Israeli hostages and then have the terrorist group’s leaders limp into exile. An Arab force could enter Gaza to help rebuild the infrastructure, as well as create a new democratic government that doesn’t oppress Gaza residents, as Hamas routinely did.

Unfortunately, the same fundamentalist religious forces that led to Iran’s downfall could also lead to Israel’s demise. Instead of using this precious moment of victory to create a viable Palestinian state, Israel seems poised to hubristically squander the opportunity. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears more interested in staying out of prison, tearing down Israel’s democracy and holding together his coalition of right-wing crackpots than doing what is in Israel’s best interests.

If Israel defeats Iran, it will have a fig leaf of diplomatic cover to say, “Yeah, the war was necessary and awful, but now that we are safe, we can find a diplomatic solution to Palestinian independence that works for all parties. However, if Israel misses this opportunity the country may lose the broader war by ghettoizing itself and cementing its loss of support across the globe.

Paradoxically, in steeling itself to defeat Iranian fundamentalism, Israel itself became more fundamentalist and in some cases acted positively Iranian. For example, the cowardly bullying and despicable attacks on innocent Palestinians in the West Bank is inexcusable and can turn the stomachs of even staunch supporters of Israel.

Israel must remember that it is not only the Jewish State but is tied to the state of Jews worldwide. Diaspora Jews have suffered an exponential increase in antisemitism post October 7. It is in Israel’s interest to ease tensions globally and deescalate for the good of Jewish people everywhere.

So, if Iran falls or is soundly defeated, Israel should take the win and move swiftly to repair its ailing reputation by offering a new political horizon in the Middle East. If it fails to do so, its stunning military prowess will be for naught, providing a Pyrrhic victory, where instead of a new dawn, the sun sets on Israel’s future as a successful democracy in the free world.

A monumental failure of such magnitude will reverberate far beyond Israel and become a global tragedy that will impact all Jews for years, if not decades, to come.