Abraham Teitelbaum

What might have been if on October 8, 2023, the Biden administration had told their special ally Qatar—home to Hamas' billionaire leaders—that they had 24 hours to hand over the terrorists or lose their American security umbrella (without which they cannot exist), and had told Iran that they had a week to gently persuade Hamas to surrneder before the B2 bombers went to work on Iran's toys? Gaza would not be in ruins, The hostages would be alive, South Lebanon would be in ruins, Syria would not be in flames, The West would not have seen antisemitism normalised. And the Democrats would probably have scraped through the election. They couldn't do this because of the intellectual rot at the heart of the administration and the State Department. So the Middle East had to burn, and tens of thousands had to die just to try appeasement one more time...