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A high-level Iranian terrorist is killed; a complete misunderstanding of
the war by the U.S, government; and our least favorite song:

**Congressional Chaos Reigns**. A lot to cover this week, so let's
dive right in.

**The Northern Front**

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On Monday, reports emerged that Israel had allegedly struck a building
in the Iranian consular compound adjacent to their embassy in Damascus.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility. Among the
multiple Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officers killed was
the highest-ranking IRGC general in Syria who oversaw Iran's terrorist
operations there and in Lebanon.

As regular readers know, Hezbollah has launched more than 1,000 attacks
on Israel since the 10/7 Massacre - resulting in over 100,000 Israelis
still being displaced from their homes in the North. Israel continues to
respond and is not shying away from going after those leading
Hezbollah's pseudo-under-the-radar war on the Jewish state and its
chief sponsor - Iran. To be clear, while it does not generate as many
headlines, this is not a low-intensity conflict. Eighteen Israelis have
been killed and Israel continues to take significant steps to take those
responsible off the battlefield along with any advanced weaponry being
introduced into the theater.   

Israel's daring daytime strike on Iran's Damascus-based chief
terrorist could foreshadow a significant conflagration. And the
Israelis, of course, are thinking the same as according to reports
they've been stockpiling a significant amount of "emergency supply
of fuel, food, and medical gear..." ostensibly in preparation for a
significant Hezbollah assault or the need to preempt one. 

**Munich Rules and The Southern War**

As the above indicates, it's clear that the war in Gaza is hardly a
localized conflict. It stretches to Tehran, Moscow, and Washington.
Therefore, what happens to Hamas impacts the future of the world. Will
Hamas be allowed to survive? Will rapists and murderers walk the streets
of Gaza City, honored by those who support their barbarism? Nope. To all
of it.

Hamas as an organization will not survive. And Israel has seemingly
adopted the

**Munich Rules**. After Palestinian terrorists killed Israeli Olympic
athletes at the 1972 Munich games, the Jewish state spent several years
hunting down the terrorists who killed their sons and daughters. Now, it
seems, all who planned, financed, or participated in the 10/7 Massacre
will either be brought to justice or have justice brought to them.

Hamas's last stronghold remains Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah.
After the diplomatic debacle caused by President Biden's decision to
hang Israel out to dry at the UN (covered in last week's Update),
senior Israeli defense and national security officials have been once
again communicating with their counterparts - with formal meetings
done virtually.

The Biden administration publicly acknowledges that Hamas must be
destroyed, but in the same breath claims that an invasion of Rafah,
where four Hamas battalions remain along with many of the hostages, is
unnecessary. The Israelis would love nothing more than to see Hamas's
defeat without sending their sons and daughters into the devil's den,
and they've no desire to kill a single Palestinian civilian, so if the
Biden administration has a good plan, the Israelis will jump at it.

**Misunderstanding the Middle East**

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Hamas knew how this war would go (initially). They always knew that
following the raping and pillaging of southern Israel, the Israelis
would respond with the full force of the IDF. But Hamas also assumed the
international community would be able to stop Israel from destroying the
terrorist organization.

Their strategy was always to use the civilians of Gaza as human shields
and the international community to pressure the U.S. and the U.S. to
ultimately stop Israel. That's why Hamas celebrates Palestinian
civilian casualties and inflates the number of civilian deaths. And, as
we saw at the UN last week (which Hamas publicly praised), their plan is
working because the Biden administration fundamentally does not
understand Hamas or their patrons in Tehran for that matter.

But, in fairness, they don't understand Israel either. There is no
threat, no U.N. resolution, no statements, nothing in the so-called

**diplomatic** arsenal the U.S. can do to stop Israel from destroying
Hamas, rescuing the hostages, and ensuring the existential threat Iran
and its proxies pose is addressed.

But that does not mean that the United States is a bystander. Quite the
opposite. Where the rubber meets the road is not the White House. It's
Congress.

As this missive alone indicates, we've no qualms with criticizing the
Biden administration for their mistakes and failures (and we will credit
them when deserved, for example, with continuing weapons shipments to
Israel throughout the war), but that's a nonpartisan knife.

Despite the Democrat-controlled Senate's advancement of an emergency
aid package that would enable Hamas's destruction and likely deter a
wide regional war, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives
has not advanced a politically feasible emergency Israel aid package.

We recognize political reality and understand the challenging position
Speaker Johnson faces due to the isolationist wing of his caucus, but
there are millions of Christian Zionists across the country who
understand that House GOP Israel policy is being held hostage by a
handful of isolationists, some of whom have a history of inflammatory
and even antisemitic rhetoric. 

In the coming weeks, we look forward to the House of Representatives
finding bipartisan consensus on an emergency aid package that will
ensure Israel is able to overcome those who would wipe the Jewish state
from the face of the earth. We would hope that as Speaker Johnson
endeavors to achieve this goal, Members of Congress from both sides of
the aisle ask themselves if politics or conviction should dictate their
vote on whether or not the Jewish state has the means to survive and
vote accordingly.

Sincerely,

The CUFI Action Fund Team

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