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In today’s edition of the Action Update we analyze developments concerning the U.S. and Israeli positions towards Iran and offer Tucker Carlson some helpful tips about his upcoming trip to Israel.
The Ayatollah Strangelove
This week, Prime Minister Netanyahu made a rapidly planned visit to Washington, meeting first with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and then with President Trump. The two heads of state sat together for three hours – an unusually lengthy span of time for the President to devote to a single meeting.
Following the visit, Jerusalem and Washington expressed solidarity on the key issues of the day: Iran and Gaza.
Concerning the former, on the core matters, the two countries agree: they both cannot tolerate Iran’s continued nuclear ventures, ballistic missile program or support for international terrorism.
Likewise, the Trump and Netanyahu administrations both want to see regime change through domestic revolution in Iran.
This said, Israel, the regime in Tehran, and the Iranian protestors all assess that the regime’s future and the aforementioned nuclear, missile and terrorist projects are all fully intertwined. Washington thinks they can be separated; that the Mullahs’ worst actions can be excised and the regime can hobble along only mistreating its own people.
Ultimately, the debate is – and may remain – academic. Unlike President’s Obama and Biden, President Trump is not compartmentalizing the nuclear issue – separating it from the missiles and terrorism. That is the key to success, regardless of the discussion over what may or may not cause the regime to ultimately fail.
And how do we know that ending Tehran’s missile, nuclear and terror programs is the key to bringing some semblance of stability to the region? Because separating these issues is Tehran’s immediate goal in their current negotiations with the United States.
Tucker’s Choice
Tucker Carlson, disgraced former CNN contributor, disgraced former Fox News host, tenth runner up in the third season of dancing with the stars, and ally of the terrorist-backing regime in Qatar, is going to Israel.
Look…. Despite what Tucker, Candace, AOC, and that purple haired pro-Hamas co-ed at your local “smart kids” school all have said, Israel is in fact a free country. Of course they’re letting him in.
The visceral reaction one may have to the idea of a man who has so clearly branded himself a Jew-hater heading over to the Jewish state in an effort to further his demonization of the Jewish people is understandable. But, consider the curious case of Kasim Hafeez.
Kasim is the Director of Digital for Strategy for CUFI. He was also raised in a virulently antisemitic environment, and had, at one point, committed himself to supporting Israel’s destruction. But, Kasim, and if you know him this will come as little surprise, was not content being told how evil the Jewish people were; he wanted to see it with his own eyes.
And, Israel, being a free country, allowed him to enter. What follows is a fascinating and moving story, which you can watch by clicking here, but, spoiler alert, Israel changed Kasim.
Perhaps God will bless Tucker as he did Kasim, perhaps not. Either way, we asked Kasim to offer a few thoughts on what Tucker may want to do while in Israel:
First stop must be the Western Wall. That’s about as close to where God’s interaction with mankind began as we can likely get in this world. Then, go to wherever the Israelis would have you sit, and watch the video compiled of Hamas’s atrocities on October 7th, and then go to Yad Vashem.
Perhaps then he will begin to understand just how far he’s fallen and thereby begin the arduous, vital and magnificent ascent.
Tucker Carlson can choose to go on an anti-Israel tour of Israel; one, frankly could do the same in the U.S. or any other free country. The associated and predictable propaganda will not be difficult to develop.
Alternatively, Tucker can land in Israel and breathe that magnificent air with a s softened heart an open mind and while considering that which is presented in Deuteronomy 30:19.
Sincerely,
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