A shadow looms over the pandemonium now engulfing the Holy Land. Behind the terrorist pogrom inflicted on Israel by Hamas lurks the most sinister of all the Middle Eastern despotisms: the Islamic Republic of Iran .
Israel described this cynical volte-face by the Kremlin as “obscene”. But the realignment of Russian diplomacy to embrace Hamas is further proof of the growing role of Iran in Putin’s war of extermination against Ukraine. But Netanyahu knows that the Israeli war aim of destroying Hamas once and for all is non-negotiable. The contrast between the Israeli and the US approaches to the crisis is stark: Washington sees the conflict in transactional terms, but for Jerusalem it is existential.Hamas and their masters in Tehran know this, of course. They are now also making the impossible demand that Israel release more than 6,000 convicted terrorists.
Yet ever since the Obama administration this same diabolical regime has been appeased and courted by the US and the EU, handsomely rewarded for the release of hostages and brought in from the cold — all in the name of preventing the mullahs from getting their hands on nuclear weapons. Most obviously, there has been a brutal response to the nationwide protests that erupted last September against the Islamic Republic’s state-sanctioned misogyny and its treatment of ethnic minorities.As of last April, at least 19,200 protesters had been detained and 537 killed by police. Seven have so far been executed and up to 100 more are in danger of the death penalty. Meanwhile, the Iranian judiciary responded to the uprising by banning the removal of headscarves by women in public.
A decade of war in its Yemeni back yard has forced Iran’s arch-rival Saudi Arabia onto the defensive. The human cost has been horrific, with a death toll of up to half a million, mostly caused by famine.This long-established terrorist organisation based in Lebanon has an arsenal of 150,000 missiles, enough to overwhelm even Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome defensive shield.
What makes the focus on appeasing Iran even more incomprehensible is the fact that throughout more than a decade of this humiliating process, Iran has consistently sought to subvert Western society from within and to pursue its opponents even in exile.Threats are clearly increasing in frequency and gravity. In the past year or two, at least 15 Iranian plots to kill or kidnap individuals in the UK have been foiled. A similar rise in state terrorism has been seen elsewhere in Europe and the US.
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