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MORGAN MURPHY: Let Israel Win The War

While the Biden-Harris administration wrings its hands and Europe cowers, Israel just wrote the playbook on how to handle terrorists. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t involve ceasefires.

Any nation under attack doesn’t just have a right to self defense, but holds a sacred duty to defend its people. Civilized nations use deterrence to fend off attacks, and failing that, swift, devastating and targeted organized violence.

A year ago, on October 7, 2023, the world’s only Jewish state suffered the worst systematic exterminations of Jews since the Holocaust. The surprise attack by Hamas displayed human behavior at its worst — rapes so violent that they shattered pelvic bones, mutilations of not only women and children, but of infants, torture of hostages. In many cases, the attackers knew the homes and the families they murdered and captured, thanks to Israel’s policy that allowed 17,000 Palestinians to work in Israel.

It took a year, but Israel found its footing in the past three weeks and is showing the United States and Europe how to handle the genocidal Mullahs in Iran and their proxies in Gaza and Lebanon.

On September 17, the pagers of thousands of Hezbollah terrorists blew up, injuring hundreds and killing dozens. The next day, in a follow-on attack, walkie-talkies exploded in the same manner. In two days time, Israel knocked its enemies back to the days of soup cans and string.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on September 27 at the United Nations in New York. His warning was clear: “I have a message for you: Israel will win this battle. We will win this battle because we don’t have a choice … The eternity of Israel will not falter.”

Moments afterwards, the Israeli Air Force struck Hezbollah’s command center.  The strike killed Hezbollah’s sinister leader and dozens of his top lieutenants while they were 60 feet below ground in a reinforced bunker. Israeli intelligence knew that Hassan Nasrallah was monitoring the U.N. speech, so it is likely the last thing he saw was Bebe’s face.

This coup de grace capped a weeks-long air campaign that targeted the 30 years of bunkers, missiles and ammunition stockpiled in Lebanon. Israel filmed many of the strikes and their follow-on explosions, proving the military legitimacy of the targets.

The response came, not from Lebanon, but from Iran, which fired approximately 200 missiles at civilian targets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel’s breathtaking air defenses, David’s Sling, the Iron Dome and Arrow interceptors shot them down in a stunning display of technical superiority. The deftness of Israel’s defenses led some imbecilic observers to question whether Iran even meant to hit anything.

They did. For more than 45 years, the fanatical death cult that runs Iran has sought revenge against the United States, Europe and especially Israel.

The hard truth remains: deterrence only works when your enemies believe you will act. Israel understands this. They know, as Israel’s fourth prime minister, Golda Meir, once said, that they have “no place else to go.” They fight not just for land, but for existence.

Indeed, Israel is at war with a different strain of the same mind virus that inspired September 11, which makes it all the more revolting that the Biden-Harris administration is trying to thread a political needle. Instead of staunchly backing one of our most loyal allies, the Democrats say Israel has a “right to self-defense” and in the same breath, call for a ceasefire.

They are trying to maintain the Democratic Party’s traditional Jewish votes, while at the same time, placate the growing anti-Semitic wing represented by undereducated youth on America’s elite college campuses and wingnuts such as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).

Were the president truly guarding the best interest of the American people, the United States would help Israel impose stinging consequences on Iran’s aggression by destroying its nuclear program. Instead, the U.S. president demanded that Israel take Iran’s nukes off the targeting list. “The answer is no,” Biden scolded.

In a world where our adversaries respect strength above all, it appears Israel and Netanyahu will have to continue to lead the West.

Morgan Murphy is military thought leader, former press secretary to the Secretary of Defense and national security advisor in the U.S. Senate.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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