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The Shahab-3 missile. seen here during Iran's 2012 "Great Prophet" military exercise. The Shahab-3 is a medium-range ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Credit: Hossein Velayati, Wikimedia Commons.

Bomb Iran to stop a wider war in Europe and protect Taiwan

After the Afghanistan and Ukraine debacles, the West must show strength to save the world.

April 13, 2022

An Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps parade in Tehran on Sept. 21, 2012. Credit: Mohammad Sadegh Heydari via Wikimedia Commons.

Stabilizing the Middle East means weakening the IRGC

Because of the significant influence the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has in Iran’s banking and shipping industries, the designation makes it easier to sanction the European Union and other entities still doing business with the Islamic Republic.

April 9, 2019

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 4, 2016. Photo by Flash90.

To its detriment, the PA spurns US financial assistance

The Palestinian Authority couldn’t have been more explicit about its culture of violence, and yet Israel’s adversaries continue to insist that the biggest obstacle to peace is the “occupation.”

January 30, 2019

CODEPINK members and allies supporting the nuclear deal with Iran in front of the White House. Credit: CODEPINK

Code Pink visits Iran looking for … peace?

A group that supposedly champions human rights has no interest in communicating with ordinary Iranians fighting for freedom against a regime that tolerates no dissent.

January 17, 2019

View of Metula, Israel's northernmost town, and Mount Hermon. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Hezbollah has no respect for human life

Tunnels aside, its rockets, bombs and rifles are placed under Lebanese schools and hospitals, and the group openly and unapologetically threatens to direct its significant firepower at Israeli cities.

December 12, 2018

U.S. political activist Linda Sarsour. Credit: Festival of Faiths via Wikimedia Commons.

The progressive movement and anti-Semitism

Just think about Ilhan Omar, a Democrat in Minnesota’s House of Representatives who tweeted, “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel,” which she described as “Satanic.”

October 12, 2018

Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Squeezing Hodeidah, Yemen’s lifeline, as chances for peace dim

Houthi activity in the port city has intensified, and the insurgency group has made it clear that there are no terms under which they will hand over it over in an internationally supervised operation.

August 16, 2018