Two countries. Two protests. And a world between them.

Everyone in Israel is waiting for Donald Trump’s Tomahawk shoe to fall. Most everyone takes it for granted that the president will attack Iran for a couple of obvious reasons:

- The massive military build-up. You don’t put together that kind of power for nothing.

- The president’s tweets about coming to the aid of the Iranian people.

- The unique moment in history when the mullacracy seems to be at its weakest.

Israel does not figure directly in the reasons above, but most locals feel that should the president order an attack, Israel will get free Iranian missiles. I was surprised when our parking garage, turned bomb shelter, had its gate closed this past Saturday. Nobody wants to have missiles returning here, but everyone takes it as a given that they may well return.

Though the internet is mostly down in Iran, it would appear that the theocracy is sparing no bullets to put down the greatest threat ever to its continued rule. Thirty thousand dead? Thirty-six thousand dead? Fifty thousand dead? One hundred thousand dead? From the little that comes out, we see regime forces shooting at civilians and piles of black body bags. We see burning government buildings and funerals for those killed. Just as the brave Iranian people know that it’s showtime, so does the leadership. They have brought in hired muscle and apparently have given their forces a free hand to kill and torture as they please. There are reports here that on the evening of January 8-9, 30,000 people alone were killed. They compared it to the Babi Yar massacre during World War II.

Far, far away in Minnesota, there are riots of a different kind altogether. Leftists have chosen their affinity for illegal aliens over the explicit laws of the United States and the federal officers tasked with enforcing them. There can be no comparison to Iran as to the........

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