“What is it with Obama’s and Biden’s radical left ideology that drives the infatuation with saving and building up radical Islamic dictators and killers who openly state their intention of killing us?
For many of us, our introduction to radial Islam and the broader political issues in the Middle East came in 1979 with the fall of the Imperial State of Iran and its authoritarian ruler, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – who had come to power in 1953 in a US-UK “managed” coup.
The Shah had been a close friend of the West and a supporter of the US against the communist Soviet bloc. In 1979, during an allegedly “popular uprising,” the Shah fled in exile, and the caretaker government left behind quickly crumbled to the returning Islamic leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who himself had been exiled in 1964.
The monarchy was replaced with a theocracy, and Iran became the Islamic Republic of Iran. With it came the resurgence of the great Sunni–Shia age-old divide between Islamic sects and a fresh wind for radicalism for both. And the West soon learned that the boot of all radical Islam is Sharia law – or theocratic totalitarianism – and for those receiving its kick, there is no peace, human dignity, or liberty.
The often stated and preeminent goal of the resurgent Islamic radicals was unambiguous; the eradication of the Great Satan – the United States, and the lesser Satan – the State of Israel. The terrifying thing about radical Islam is not what we don’t know about it but what they tell us plainly about it.
The fall of the Shah and the new Islamic State proved this. Following the new Iranian government chaired by Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran stuck a thumb in the eye of the US when the now infamous hostage crisis rocked Washington DC. It was a climatic event that arguably doomed the presidency of Jimmy Carter, who ironically refused to support the Iranian military in a planned coup to forestall the Ayatollah’s return from exile.
On November 4, 1979, an armed Iranian mob of “students” took over the US Embassy in Tehran. In the end, they held fifty-three US diplomats and citizens as hostages, demanding that the exiled Shah, who was in the US for cancer treatments, be returned to face charges for the murder of political prisoners by his secret police, or SAVAK.
The crisis dragged on for 444 days, even after the Shah had died in Egypt. It was punctuated by a joint US and Canadian rescue of six Embassy officials who had evaded capture and the tragic aborted rescue mission that left eight US Servicemen dead in the Iranian desert. However, the new Iranian government did not fear Carter’s hapless threats of force or the calls for negotiations. Washington never understood that radical Islam, as championed by Khomeini, actually believed what they preached – and they regarded negotiations as a stalling tactic or ultimately a form of appeasement.
The drama ended on January 20, 1981, as Ronald Reagan was being sworn into office, replacing President Carter.
The story is worth revisiting because it demonstrates the pattern the world has witnessed repeatedly. And the pattern holds in the Israeli war on the Hamas terrorists in Gaza and the bubbling confrontation with Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and their sponsor, the terrorist regime in Iran.
While many in the West blather on about the necessity of negotiations with Hamas and “two-state solutions,” Hamas has one objective – to extract concessions that will lead to the often-stated goal of eliminating Israel from the Jewish homeland. Ceasefires, like negotiations, are a means to an end. The end goal never changes.
Hamas has already demonstrated over twenty years that it is incapable of governing Gaza without terror and the Jewish state to blame for the plight of Palestine. The crippling poverty they have created and the staggering corruption they feast on fits with the core ideology. They deliberately place their military and various military functions mixed in with civilians to create horrific photos of “war crimes” for gullible Westerners. Hamas (and its millionaires and, yes, even billionaires) leaders have stolen billions of dollars in aid over the years. They are currently stealing “most” of the food and medicine being provided by US and European taxpayers – and the Israelis who provide more water, food, and medical aid than any other country. It is a sick, twisted, and evil joke that Palestinians have suffered under the Israelis. Palestinians are suffering because of other Palestinians.
Yet the Biden Administration, like that of Obama and Carter before it, doesn’t seem to have a clue about what radical Islam promises and delivers – or, more troubling, is often complicit in furthering the goals of radical Islam. Currently, Washington has ratcheted up tensions with Israel and is directly responsible for fanning the winds of antisemitism in the West. The Administration is withholding and slow-walking weapons and munitions to the IDF even though it is being coy about it. The New York Times reports that seven weapon systems that the IDF needs are on “hold,” which the president inadvertently confirmed in a press conference at the NATO 75th Anniversary summit on July 11, mumbling about two-thousand pound bombs he has stopped. In the meantime, Congress invited Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to address the body on July 24 – and the Prime Minister and the President are expected to meet as well. It will undoubtedly be a chilly reception in the muggy July heat in Washington.
Since the well-organized campus chaos and demonstrations by so-called students and rent-a-mobs at even elite institutions, the Biden regime has folded like a cheap suit and at least overtly is touting a ceasefire and “negotiations” as the only solutions to the war on the table. It seems to believe that Hamas can be healed with words and cash when history shows they will only use the negotiations to rearm and regroup during the hiatus. The Biden policy is now focusing on hamstringing the IDF from finishing its campaign in hopes of salvaging Hamas from destruction – for reasons known only to them.
This follows the Obama blueprint of falling over backward to accommodate and refresh the beleaguered Iranian mullahs as he did in 2015 – who, like Hamas, had crushed the Iranian economy, murdered tens of thousands of citizens, and silenced dissent – with sham agreements and pallets of US currency airlifted directly in Tehran without any real concessions from Iran.
What is it with Obama’s and Biden’s radical left ideology that drives the infatuation with saving and building up radical Islamic dictators and killers who openly state their intention of killing us? Or, for that matter, the same infatuation with supporting communists who also want to end Western democracies.
Meanwhile, IDF forces are continuing a selected and methodical war plan in both Gaza and Rafah. But concurrently, Northern Israel is under a withering attack by Hezbollah missiles that are fired from private buildings, schools, and homes in Lebanon and, according to Israeli media, have displaced over 50,000 Israelis and started wildfires across the North. The clear intent seems to be to make life in northern Israel unlivable, forcing the Israelis to abandon the territory.
The Iranians are warning that a full-scale attack by Israel on the Hezbollah terrorists firing rockets into civilian population in the North will result in a “robust” response and all-out war by Iran.
The plan seems obvious. Trap Israel into a reaction and force the West into choosing to abandon the only functioning free state in the Middle East. It’s a plan for which a weak and feckless American government led by a hapless president and Obama’s radical overseers seem to be the primary facilitators.
Regardless, Israel will decide – it has no choice – to end any Iranian threat with or without the US. If it comes to that, it will not be a pretty war. But, it will not be a battle for land. It will be a fight for the very survival of the Jewish homeland that the Jews, for all their foibles, have inhabited for 4,000 years. A land which God describes as the “apple of his eye.”
For the Western World, it will be a choice; will it choose to stand with good or evil, light or darkness?
