Ben Cohen

Two years after the monstrous Hamas-led pogrom in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, we are faced with opportunity and anxiety in equal measure.

The opportunity lies in the Middle East, Israel’s own region. On the eve of the atrocity, Israel was confronted by a phalanx of Iranian proxies; as well as Hamas in Gaza, there was Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, an array of militias in Iraq and Syria, and, of course, the Iranian regime itself. In the interim, the depraved rapists of Hamas have been decimated, Hezbollah is a shadow of its former self, and the Iranian regime is still licking its wounds after the Israeli and U.S. bombing campaign in June wrought destruction upon its clandestine nuclear-weapons program. Israel is not the unchallenged power in the Middle Ea

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