[link removed]

In this mailing:
* Amin Sharifi: Israel Acted for All of Us
* Lawrence Kadish: A Firm Denunciation of Those Who Would Subvert Democracy through Assassination


** Israel Acted for All of Us ([link removed])
Special Thanks to President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Great IDF
------------------------------------------------------------

by Amin Sharifi • June 18, 2025 at 5:00 am
* Often lost in the media frenzy is the fact that Iran, unprovoked, initiated hostilities against Israel. The seeming dispute was not about territory, policy or any disagreement that states normally have. It was about ideology. Since its establishment nearly five decades ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies have waged a war against Israel and the United States, calling for their destruction. From their point of view, neither country, as "unbelievers," has a right to exist. Full stop.
* No other issue, domestic or foreign, was as consistent, prioritized or systematically pursued as Tehran's hostility toward Israel, the country blocking its way to destroying the United States. To that end, Iran spent decades preparing "forward bases" across the Middle East and in South America, especially Venezuela.
* Then US President Barack Obama's JCPOA "nuclear deal" failed to address the fundamental nuclear threat from Iran, and focused on temporary technical limits while ignoring the regime's long-term ambitions. Obama actually agreed to a "sunset clause" that would have allowed Iran legitimately to have as many nuclear weapons as could get, starting in October 2025.
* The Biden administration unfortunately repeated Obama's errors., perhaps under the illusion that if it were nice to Iran, Iran would be nice back. Instead, Iran seized on its good luck to escalate its uranium enrichment to 60% by April 2021 and to 83.7%, near weapons-grade, in 2023.
* In his first term, President Donald Trump wisely pulled the U.S. out of Obama's deal – which, it turned out, had not only been fraudulent but totally illegitimate.
* Does the world really want a terrorist state to have nuclear weapons? If you look at the damage Iran has been doing without nuclear weapons, imagine the damage it could do with them. A nuclear-armed, ideology-driven Islamist regime threatens everyone. Right now, Israel is on the front line doing what others --whose lives and countries Israel is saving -- criticize it for doing. Israel's actions are not about starting a war; they are about stopping a war that has been underway for 46 years, before the theocratic tyranny that initiated it can enlarge it further.
* Netanyahu and Trump's resolve is not only creating the opportunity for a new, golden age for the Middle East but possibly also providing a deterrent -- remember deterrence? -- to other enemies of the West that have expressed wishes for its demise.
* Trump's Churchillian defense of the Free World will place him at the forefront of history. Both he and Netanyahu -- as well as the extraordinary Israeli military -- deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for rescuing the world from one of the most toxic regimes since the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. Failure by the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award them the prize would tell us more about them than about one of the greatest triumphs for freedom of all time.

Often lost in the media frenzy is the fact that Iran, unprovoked, initiated hostilities against Israel. The seeming dispute was not about territory, policy or any disagreement that states normally have. It was about ideology. Since its establishment nearly five decades ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies have waged a war against Israel and the United States, calling for their destruction. From their point of view, neither country, as "unbelievers," has a right to exist. Full stop. Pictured: People watch the Shahran oil depot burn, in the outskirts of Tehran, following an Israeli airstrike on the facility, on June 15, 2025. (Photo by Stringer/Getty Images)

Often lost in the media frenzy is the fact that Iran, unprovoked, initiated hostilities against Israel. The seeming dispute was not about territory, policy or any disagreement that states normally have. It was about ideology. Since its establishment nearly five decades ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies have waged a war against Israel and the United States, calling for their destruction. From their point of view, neither country, as "unbelievers," has a right to exist. Full stop.

For nearly five decades, Iran's theocratic regime, while denying the Holocaust, has been funding terror groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Houthis, and for over 30 years has had a nuclear weapons program.

Continue Reading Article ([link removed])


** A Firm Denunciation of Those Who Would Subvert Democracy through Assassination ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------

by Lawrence Kadish • June 18, 2025 at 4:00 am
Pictured: A makeshift memorial for Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman at the Minnesota State Capitol building on June 16, 2025 in St. Paul. (Photo by Steven Garcia/Getty Images)

Let us speak clearly and as one.

The people of the United States view as repugnant and hateful any attempt to assassinate our elected officials, regardless of their political affiliation, race, color, creed or opinions.

It is more than simply destructive to our democracy. Assassinations have the means to infect our national "body politic" with a poison that can be fatal.

Consider the destructive forces that have been unleashed over the course of our nation's history.

President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated as the Union restored America as one. James A. Garfield was murdered by a disgruntled office-seeker. President William McKinley was shot at point-blank range by an anarchist. And President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while he sat in a motorcade in Dallas. His brother Robert would die in a Los Angeles hotel as he launched his presidential bid.

Continue Reading Article ([link removed])

============================================================
** Facebook ([link removed])
** Twitter ([link removed])
** RSS ([link removed])
** Donate ([link removed])
Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved.

You are subscribed to this list as [email protected]

You can change how you receive these emails:
** Update your subscription preferences ([link removed])
or ** Unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])

** Gatestone Institute ([link removed])

14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022