Iran's Proxy War Against Israel Caused by Biden's Weakness
The recent war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) organization in the Gaza Strip should be seen, according to several Arab political analysts and authors, in the context of Tehran's mullahs' attempts to force the Biden administration to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. By unleashing Islamic Jihad against Israel, the mullahs are apparently trying to tell the Biden Administration, "You see what we are capable of doing? We have a number of militias and armed groups that could attack Israel and Arab countries. Hurry up and give us (Iran) everything we want before it is too late. Remove the Revolutionary Guard from the list of foreign terrorists.
Give us billions of dollars or else we will continue to attack America's Arab and Israeli friends. Hurry up and sign a new nuclear deal with us or else we will be angry at the US and we will continue to attack Israel and kill Jews."
They see the three-day fighting between Israel and PIJ as part of the mullahs' ongoing efforts to increase their influence in the Middle East by arming and funding Islamist terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
These efforts, of course, also aim to advance the Iranian regime's plans to eliminate Israel. It is no coincidence that Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhala was in Tehran while his men were firing hundreds of rockets at Israel.
Before and during the visit, Iran's leaders continued to publicly voice their intention and desire to destroy Israel and kill Jews. That is because the Iranians see the US under the Biden administration as incapable of confronting their dangerous schemes. As Major General Hossein Salami, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on August 4: "The US has started packing its bags to leave the Middle East. It is no longer able to impose maximum pressure on us."
PIJ, the second-largest terror group in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, is not different than Iran's other proxies in the Middle East, especially Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthi militia, when it comes to threatening Israel and America's Arab friends.
Like their patrons in Tehran, these proxies are all staunchly committed to the destruction of Israel and the killing of as many Jews as possible. PIJ continues to threaten and attack Israel, while Hezbollah and the Houthis are doing their utmost to destabilize security and stability in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and the Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia.
"The [Israel-PIJ] war is neither the first nor the last, but it proves once again that Iran is exploiting Gaza, as it is exploiting Lebanon, in order to strengthen Tehran's negotiating cards with the West," wrote Saudi author Tareq al-Hamid, a former editor-in-chief of the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper:
"Today, Lebanon is not suffering from war as much as it is suffering from Iranian occupation through Hezbollah, which threatens the collapse of the country as a whole. We are facing an Iranian political fantasy from which the region has gained nothing but devastation and destruction, whether in Gaza, Lebanon, or Syria, as well as Yemen and Iraq.
"This situation will not change, and this [Iranian] fantasy will not end until Iran pays a real price for all its crimes in our region."
Noting that the mullahs are determined to pursue their plans to achieve nuclear weapons, Khoury criticized the US, France, Britain and Germany for continuing to delude themselves into believing that a new nuclear deal would stop the mullahs.
"The [nuclear] bomb is a fait accompli, and the illusions of preventing it by fulfilling Tehran's demands are reminiscent of the Russian proverb: 'It is too late to wish someone good health while you are going to his funeral'...
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