Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA OP-ED     It Would Be Irresponsible of Israel NOT to Attack Iran’s Nuclear Sites By Joel Pollak (December 12, 2024 / Breitbart) Israel should attack Iran’s nuclear program while it can — and before the desperate Iranian regime detonates a bomb. Iran is the world’s most aggressive state sponsor of terrorism and has been seeking to develop nuclear weapons for decades. It is said to be very close to being able to do. That is why Israel and (at times) the U.S. have taken actions, both overt and covert, to undermine the Iranian nuclear program, and have threatened to attack it, as a last resort. Until recently, Iran had several deterrents against such an attack. One was the presence of the Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist organization, Hezbollah, in Lebanon. Hezbollah built a stockpile of hundreds of thousands of rockets, which it aimed at Israeli cities, and built a network of tunnels, arsenals, and hideouts near the Israeli border, preparing for a future invasion of northern Israel. Israel knew that if it ever attacked Iran, Hezbollah would attack it with great force. Another deterrent was Syria. The Iranian regime, together with Russia, developed an alliance with dictator Bashar al-Assad. Iran used Syria as a conduit for weapons to Hezbollah and used the Syrian military as a buffer against Israel. Syrian air defenses, bolstered by Russian radar and surface-to-air missiles, were both an early warning system and a deterrent. Israel attacked weapons convoys, but avoided more ambitious plans, especially given the Russian presence. The fact that Israel could not easily fly over Syria meant that it would have had to use longer and more circuitous routes. Israel did retaliate against two Iranian ballistic missile attacks this year but did so from outside Iranian airspace. The fact that Israel had to look for alternatives also made its plans more vulnerable to disruption — as in 2012, when the Obama administration leaked plans for an Israeli attack from Azerbaijan, in order to thwart it. The Obama administration preferred to use diplomatic means, even though it participated in a covert effort to use a computer virus, Stuxnet, to confound Iranian centrifuges. The 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was the result of Obama’s efforts, though it was full of loopholes, effectively allowing Iran to become a nuclear power after roughly a decade. President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, and President Joe Biden wasted years trying to restore it. Iran took advantage of Biden’s diplomatic dithering to accelerate its uranium enrichment and to encourage its proxies — including Houthi rebels in Yemen, whom the Biden administration foolishly removed from a list of terror groups. CONTINUE READING     Share This Email Share This Email   DONATE     Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2024, All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice