If Biden appeases the Left, if he persuades Israel to relent before every hostage is accounted for and before Hamas and its enablers no longer exist as a coherent force, then the Middle East and the world will grow immeasurably more dangerous. Iran will be emboldened. Its meticulously constructed “ring of fire” surrounding Israel will remain intact. Hezbollah will be in reserve. And Israel will be demoralized.

That is precisely the wrong outcome. Trauma and travesty have united Israeli society around a common purpose: the end of the terrorist organization that committed the worst crime against Jews since the Holocaust. And while President Biden has supported Israel, he has also taken pains to remind the Jewish state, like it is some sort of a wayward pupil, to “uphold the laws of war,” protect civilian lives, and periodically suspend its military campaign according to an arbitrary timetable. The implication is that Israel is not obeying international law or doing everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties. And that implication is insulting.

Why not try a different strategy? Why not say that Israel has every right to protect itself, that Hamas is responsible for every life lost, and that America will stand with Israel until the job is done? No more equivocation. No more dithering. No more obedience to the politically correct. Let Israel win.

[Yes, that WOULD be a novel strategy for the US, especially over the last couple of decades. Anything else is tantamount to partnering with Hamas on pursuing their strategy to neutralize Israel’s strength and resistance via the use of human shields. And that will only incentivize even more human-shield strategies by radicals around the world, eventually including here in the US as well. — Ed]