The point of no return had been reached

40px”>If Israel now smashes the Iran-based Shia axis, this will reshape the Middle East for the better and remove an unconscionable threat not just to Israel but to the West too. “When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan — it is a policy,” said Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in 2023. In Britain, the security service has warned of an “extraordinary threat” of Iranian terrorist attacks.

Israel is doing the West a huge service — for which the Jewish state is paying in blood — that much of the West still obdurately refuses to realise.