The view from the Middle East is a lot different than what we read on social media or from the Western press.

The talking points in the Western press are that Israel attacked poor innocent Iran causing a conflagration in the Middle East which threatens to absorb in war not only the Middle East, but perhaps the entire world.

The answer to those rumors and charges is simply, “bunk.”

Iran was weeks away from the nuclear weapon with which it would have held the world hostage.  Iran has made no secret of its desire to make the West fanatically Muslim, to destroy the United States, and to bury Israel.

Had Israel, with the help of the United States, not struck Iran, the world would have been faced with a true conflagration.  Just imagine how the world would have been different if in 1939 there was an Israel and strong presidential leadership in the United States. World War II might never have happened, and 50 million lives could have been saved.  That’s right 50 million people lost their lives in World War II because the West would not stand up to Adolph Hitler, and after World War II, it was fearful of Joseph Stalin and the Russians.

Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Operation Rising Lion is that Arab states are now working with the United States and Israel to contain and destroy the hegemony of........

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