On June 7 a year ago Israeli fighter jets attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in a very powerful and

On June 7 a year ago Israeli fighter jets attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in a very powerful and successful way. Subsequently, the US joined Israel in devastating the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions. A year later, on June 19, President Trump will sign a loser’s deal with Iran. In many respects the deal leaves Iran in a more powerful position than  ever. As far as many Israelis are concerned, this deal revives Iran and Hezbollah, erasing most of the damage that Israel and the US inflicted upon them.

Previously, I thought that President Trump was some sort of a “street fighter”: when you knock opponents down, you don’t offer to pick them up. What you must do is knock them out or pummel them so that a recovery is far in the future, if at all. However, I’ve been proven wrong.

Western countries are unfortunately not equipped to deal with a messianic country like Iran which cares nothing for its citizens. Western politicians and negotiators are fixated on retaining power in the next election; Iran’s leaders are willing to keep fighting for years, like they did in Iraq (1980-1988) – until Iran acknowledged its defeat (the Grand Ayatollah drank the “poisoned chalice”). Because of an American mid-term election in several months, it seems undeniable that the Trump administration has put the fear of losing several vulnerable seats in Congress above ending Iran’s impending threat to the West. My conclusion: Trump had the ayatollahs on the mat but he’s willing to help them return to a threatening position. Why? Because he fears the results in the November mid-term elections if the war isn’t ended quickly and gas prices don’t recede.

No matter how many books have been written detailing Iranian religious-inspired plans (jihad) to control their Arab neighbors and Israel and then the Africans and Europeans, the political thinkers in the US........

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