Iran’s Attack on Israel: Biden’s Weakness on Stage
THE ISSUE: Iran’s attack on Israel through a coordinated series of drone and missile strikes.
● Congratulations to Biden and the Democrats for financing Iran with billions in cash so that the mullahs could launch attacks on Israel (“It’s Biden’s Mideast mess,” Editorial, April 13).
The misguided foreign policies of former President Barack Obama and Biden have enabled our enemies to attack our allies with zero consequences.
Michael Catarino
Boiling Springs, Penn.
● The attack by Iran on Israel is a clear example of how Biden’s dangerous policies of allowing Iran to gain wealth and armaments through oil sales, which former President Donald Trump had completely shut down, will end up playing out on the global stage.
Biden’s economy is bad enough, but his bad judgment and weak international actions prove that he has no strength to lead the world the way Trump did. Simply put, the international community does not respect Biden. This should concern all of us.
Our world is now far more dangerous under Biden than it was under Trump, who was in total control, and whom leaders like Putin feared.
Simply put: November cannot come soon enough.
Matthew Pease
Demarest, NJ
● Iran’s attack on Israel didn’t come out of thin air (“Iran must pay a price,” Editorial, April 15).
Israel’s surprise attack on the Iranian diplomatic mission in Syria was the exact reason for what became Iran’s retaliatory attack. Israel escalated the situation in the first place by wantonly killing members of Iran’s military brass and diplomats.
Of course, this may be what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted in the first place: an escalation of tensions under his watch such that the United States is forced to respond and do his dirty work in eliminating his foes through airstrikes and possibly an invasion. But I, and many other Americans, refuse to die for Israel.
And The Post’s editorial board demanding that President Biden do whatever Israel wants of him is proof that many on the mainstream right are actually “Israel-First” instead of “AmericaFirst.” They want to sacrifice American lives at the altar of Israel.
Leon Baader
Brooklyn
● Trump had been strangling Iran with an economic boycott. Biden released the stranglehold. Now we have hundreds of dead Israelis, 33,000 dead Palestinians and Iranian drones attacking Israel.
Adam Sternglass
Elizabeth, NJ
● Let me get this straight. Iran attacks Israel. The people who attacked Israel are still safe and sound.
And we’re being told this was a victory for the victim? Yes, the victim did survive. But so far it sounds like a victory for Iran more than anybody else.
John Dumary
Duanesburg
● Biden told Israel that nothing important was hit during Iran’s attack. I guess the 7-year-old Bedouin girl, a Muslim Israeli citizen, isn’t important.
Tell that to her parents. Biden must go.
Jeffrey Levy
Brooklyn
● I commend Biden and Congress for standing firmly with the state of Israel in its defensive actions against Iran’s aggressive attacks.
Martin Blumberg
Melville
● Judging from recent history, the US, Britain and their allies will likely further sanction Iran for its retaliatory drone attack on Israel.
There has been a predictable American and British proclivity for sanctioning Iran and its officials ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The revolution’s expulsion of major Western nations, however, was largely due to US corporate interests further exploiting Iran’s plentiful fossil-fuel resources.
Frank Sterle Jr.
White Rock, Canada
● The Iranian regime may be corrupt but I don’t think it’s stupid.
Iran’s leaders know that the rocket attack against Israel will not be met with any sort of military action on their own soil, either by Israel or us, and there are many reasons for this. Iran is flexing some of its muscles because it knows it can.
Arthur Saginian
Santa Clarita, Calif.
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