The IDF is exposing all the delusions that drive Biden-Harris Mideast policy

Let’s all give thanks to the Israeli Defense Forces for the operations have that not only gutted Hezbollah, but at long last took out the thugs most responsible for the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that slaughtered 220 Marines and 21 other US service members.Seven US presidents had failed to bring that basic justice.Bigger picture: Israel’s steady flow of deftly targeted attacks have eviscerated Hezbollah’s leadership and its rocket stocks — and back-footed the civilized world’s ultimate enemy in this conflict, the cabal that controls Iran.It’s also exposed the fatuousness of all the Western “friends” of Israel who still keep mewling that the only path to Mideast peace starts with the creation of a Palestinian state.No: The barriers to Mideast peace are now: 1) The Tehran regime and its imperialist ambitions, and 2) the refusal to recognize that Israel can and will continue to exist, in roughly its current borders, as the world’s only Jewish state.Israel’s Arab neighbors have slowly been coming to accept the latter truth, their attention focused by the growing Iranian threat, their public stance constrained by all the decades of anti-Israel propaganda they’ve pushed, before and after their military efforts failed.The Palestinian people are the prime victims of that propaganda, weaponized and infantilized by it; deceived into thinking that Israel’s success is the cause of all their problems.But their plight is only a sideshow, one that will only end as a consequence of a far larger regional settlement.Indeed, “Mideast peace” progressed by leaps and bounds in the Trump years, as Washington finally quit chasing the “two-state solution” and instead brokered accords between Israel and several of its Arab neighbors.Progress slowed to a crawl when the Biden team took over and re-embraced the two-state delusion, plus the even more fantastical Obama-ite obsession with reaching an entente with the “Death to America” Tehran regime.The Israel...