Israel’s leaders are sending a clear message: Iran is not something to be negotiated with, it is a mortal threat that must be stopped before it rebuilds enough missiles to overwhelm the region. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is traveling to Mar-a-Lago to press President Trump for a hardline, immediate response — a meeting that underlines how urgent Israel believes this danger to be.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has been blunt in public: Israel faces the longest and most complex fight in its history and must prepare for a prolonged campaign to neutralize Iran’s ambitions. His warnings that Tehran’s military-industrial machine and proxy network reached operational capability years in the making are not alarmism but grim intelligence, and that reality demands decisive action.
Intelligence assessments and Israeli statements point to Iran quietly rebuilding ballistic missile capacity while shoring up its proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and militias in Iraq — that choke off any hope of regional stability. This is exactly the pattern conservatives have warned about for years: a revolutionary regime exporting terror and building arsenals under the cover of diplomacy and weak international enforcement.
U.S. and Israeli military channels have even cautioned that Iranian missile drills could be used as cover for offensive operations, a dangerous escalation that proves Tehran plays by its own rules and trusts no red lines set by Western appeasers. Israel’s briefings to U.S. commanders make clear that the choice is containment through force or watching an existential threat grow stronger by the month.
Netanyahu reportedly plans to lay out options for new strikes when he meets the president, because diplomacy without teeth has already failed to stop Iran’s march toward more missiles and nuclear know-how. Conservatives who understand deterrence know that preemption — when backed by overwhelming capability and political will — is sometimes the only humane and responsible choice to protect allied civilians and American interests.
Enough with the moralizing from coastal elites and hand-wringing from those who would rather score points than secure peace. The stalling, the sanctions theater, and the endless negotiations have not disarmed a single missile; only strength deters, and American leadership paired with Israeli resolve is the last reliable bulwark against Tehran’s regional imperialism.
Patriots in America should stand with Israel loudly and without apology: provide intelligence, accelerate defensive munitions, back surgical options to degrade Iran’s strike capacity, and make clear that any attack on an ally will be met with crushing consequence. If our leaders are serious about protecting American families and preserving liberty abroad, now is the time to act, not to lecture about nuance while the enemy builds.
