Biden to Jews: ‘No’ to Defending against Iran’s Nuclear Weapons

By Robert Williams, GATESTONE  •  October 7, 2024

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on from the dais, as a Fattah ballistic missile is displayed during at a military parade in Tehran on September 21, 2024. Fattah missiles were using in Iran’s October 1 attack on Israel. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

• “Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations.” — United Nations Charter, Article 51.
• On October 1, 2024, Iran directly attacked Israel for the second time in six months, launching at least 180 ballistic missiles at Israeli towns cities and towns and sending millions of Israelis into bomb shelters. Iran simply did what it has been doing for decades: trying to obliterate Israel.

• Iran, both alone and through its proxies, has attacked Israel — a country smaller than New Jersey – for the past year, non-stop, on seven fronts: Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran itself. Lately, Iran has been eyeing an eighth front from which to fire on Israel: Sudan.
• If a country is in danger of being attacked by nuclear weapons, within “one or two weeks,” as it is, according to the US Department of State, a request for “proportionality” is nonsensical.
• What Israel’s leadership needs to do is ensure that Iran will not be able to attack the Jewish state ever again, either with conventional weapons or nuclear ones. This obligation, elementary for any country, means that Israel needs to incapacitate Iran’s nuclear sites and arguably put an end to Iran’s theocratic regime. There is no point in having an “accommodation” with Iran. To have peace in the Middle East, the West will need to defeat Iran.
• Iran, cordially loathed by many of own its trapped citizens, already controls four countries in addition to its own: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. The regime has made no secret of its commitment to exporting its Islamic revolution globally — including to Sudan, the rest of Africa, the Western Hemisphere and the world. As the founder of the 1979 Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, said: “We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry ‘There is no god but Allah’ resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.^“
• “Islam says,” he also noted: “Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword!”
• Yet the Biden-Harris administration, together with the other G7 countries, who represent almost the entire West, apparently cannot agree that the world would be better off if “the leading state sponsor of global terrorism” — on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons — were stopped in its tracks.
• The UN resolution also showed those countries’ disregard for Western civilization – a civilization which Israel, with no thanks from anyone, is paying the highest price imaginable to protect from tyranny and barbarism.
• All this, however, concerns more than “just the Jews.” If Western countries actively enable autocracy, terrorism and savagery not just by standing passively by but by disabling a country that is fighting these onslaughts — where does that leave the West when those forces move on to their next targets?