Iran did not break the Middle East. It revealed who can defend it.

For years, Arab capitals tried to treat Israel and Iran as separate problems. That fiction is over. Missiles, drones, maritime coercion, and attacks on critical infrastructure have made one fact unavoidable: the more Iran escalates, the more Israel becomes indispensable.

That is good for Israel but also for the region.

The choice is no longer between Israeli power and some imaginary neutral order. It is between order backed by strength and disorder enforced through blackmail. Iran has done what diplomacy could not: it has pushed Gulf states to see Israel not as a tolerated anomaly, but as a strategic necessity.

Israel offers what the region now needs most: deterrence, intelligence, air defense, missile interception, cyber capability, military innovation, and the will to use them. Iran offers the opposite: instability, proxy warfare, coercion, and sabotage disguised as resistance.

States under fire do not run toward the arsonist.........

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