President Donald Trump is taking on Shiite radicalism by restoring his maximum pressure campaign against Iran and militarily targeting the Houthis in Yemen. But the international community has repeatedly failed to take decisive action against Sunni jihadism. A comprehensive approach that targets both the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots like Hamas and the network that enables their existence must be adopted. Anything less will condemn the world to a perpetual cycle of violence and instability.

On October 7, 2023, we witnessed an orgy of the most grotesque sadism imaginable. Young women were raped and mutilated, babies were burned alive, entire families were slaughtered. Now marchers on the streets of Europe and American college campuses yearn to “globalize the intifada.” This must be stopped; the time for half measures is over.

One of the most glaring failures in the past decades has been the practice of merely exiling terrorist leaders. Yasser Arafat, Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal were pushed out of their respective territories, only to find new havens in other countries where they continued to foment violence.

Countries that host these monsters or provide material support for their operations should be treated as terror-supporting entities, not allies. This includes known adversaries like Iran, but even purported allies like Qatar and

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