Irans Oct. 7 blunder and Israels response have transformed the Middle East

The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar.And the world is better off in both cases.While the massacre of Oct.

7, 2023, was one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history, it’s obvious now that it was a massive, perhaps existential, blunder by Iran as well as a stunning defeat for its allies both in the Middle East and Washington.Oct.7 transformed the Middle East in ways that seemed impossible only a few years ago.Hamas, perhaps the most immediate threat to both Jewish and Arab lives in the region, is largely eradicated.

Hezbollah, the theocratic militia that’s kept Lebanon in a state of turmoil and war for decades, is reeling.Indeed, it was Israel’s success against the latter that helped send Bashar Assad, a real-world genocidal dictator, into Russian exile.Most of all, events have left Iran, which spent decades building its proxies throughout the Middle East, impotent.It’s no surprise that on their way out, Barack Obama’s cronies in the Biden administration approved another $10 billion in sanctions relief for the mullahs by waiving restricted payment transfers from the Iraqi government.These are the same people who had attempted to lift Hamas and propped up its benefactors in Iran with planeloads of treasure.And the same people did everything possible to handcuff Israel in its war against Hamas and Hezbollah.Not only had the White House threatened to withhold aid if the Israeli military went into Rafah to eliminate Hamas battalions cowering behind women and children, when Israel pulled off its ingenious pager operation, wounding and killing hundreds of Hezbollah operatives, our uncannily misguided Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that “all parties” should “avoid escalating conflict,” treating our close allies and Islamists — in this case a group that once murdered 220 Marines in Beirut — as equals.Fortunately, Israel ignored President Biden and eliminated Hassan Nasrallah, who was involved in those murders, and decima...