One wonders why the Donald J Trump presidency in Washington is not fully backing Israel’s war on radical Iranian terror. Observers say that Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his top aides do not recognize Israel’s right to exist. The root cause of their advocacy to obliterate the Jewish state, a bona fide member-state of the United Nations, lies in the diplomatic incompetence of the Jimmy Carter presidency in Washington that led to the fall of the relatively modern Shah and the rise of the Islamist regime in Iran in the late seventies. The successive US presidencies ought to have addressed this predicament. Washington must see to it that the radical Islamist regime is completely dismantled in Iran and replaced by a government that respects the modern international laws and the sovereignty of the Jewish State.
When Trump came to presidency in Washington, there were hopes he would put US diplomacy on the right course. During his first term in the White House, he even appeared highly supportive of Israel. He publicly declared that his administration would “always stand with Israel.” His administration also did what no previous US presidency had dared to — recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But President Trump seems to be deviating from his path today.
Israel faces an existential threat from the radical Shiite Islamist forces based in Iran. During the recent 12-day war between Iran and Israel, the Trump administration provided Israel with highly valuable military and political support. It bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. But President Trump has hardly been firm in its support to Israel. The United States could have conducted more air strikes, adding to it raids with special forces and cyber-attacks. This was the opportune time to do so. The Israeli Air Force had already established superiority over Iran’s skies. Iran’s air force was no match to it.
Of course, the United States is of late said to have green-signaled launching a massive $1.5 billion military construction program in Israel, building new air base runways, helicopter hangars, ammunition storage, command centers, and a headquarters for Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit. But Washington seems to have developed cold feet in supplying the weapons Israel needs to exterminate the Islamist forces in Iran.
The observers suggest Israel would do well to coordinate more effectively with the United States and other democracies in the world to neutralize the threat radical Islamist terrorism poses to it. The democracies must unite to back Israel in dismantling the Islamist regime in Iran. Iranian terrorism is hostile to the entire civilized world. The US must get up before it is too late. Iran is determined to manufacture nuclear weapons and annihilate, the US and all its allies.
The observers add the democracies must back Israel for its existence and help it end its war with Iran forever. Israel must not get dragged into any such war with Iran in future. Historically, until the so-called Islamic Revolution of 1979, the two nations had been very friendly to each other. There are still over 15,000 Jews living in Iran. The June 2025 war has been no good for Israel. It cost the Jewish state hundreds of millions of dollars a day. The cost of the property damaged in Israel during the war is estimated at around $1.5 billion.
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Jagdish N Singh is a senior journalist based in New Delhi, India. He is also a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute
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