Today is the first anniversary of the horrific Hamas attack on Israel that killed more Jewish civilians than any event since the Nazi holocaust. At least 30 Americans were among the dead. Israel could take out much or all of Iran’s cyberwar capability if it chose to. It was an attack beyond our imagination. Hamas murdered whole families in their homes, burning babies and raping hundreds of Israeli women. Many were killed because they were attending a music festival. About 240 people, including as many as 20 Americans, were taken hostage, some of them — including three or four Americans — are believed to be alive and still held by Hamas. The whole world hasn’t changed, but the Middle East has. French President Emmanuel Macron, in the hallowed tradition of France, always picks the wrong side. He said the other day that all arms shipments to Israel should be embargoed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called him “a disgrace,” which he is. (READ MORE from Jed Babbin: Iran Stokes Endless War, US Does Nothing) We have learned that some of our so-called allies in the region are nothing of the sort. Egypt has permitted Hamas to build dozens of tunnels between it and the Gaza strip, through which tons of war supplies have been smuggled to the terrorists, probably including much from Iran. Qatar has enabled Hamas leaders to stay in luxury hotels in its capital city, Doha, probably exercising whatever command and control authority that remains to them from there. Our — and Israel’s — principal enemy in the region, Iran, has directly attacked Israel twice, once on April 13 and again on October 1. The October attack was supposedly in response to Israel’s killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the top Hamas leader, in Tehran. Both attacks failed because Israeli, U.S. and — and this time Jordanian — missiles managed to down almost all of the attacking missiles and drones. Meanwhile, Hizballah — Iran’s proxy in Lebanon — has fired at least eight thousand missiles at Israeli civilians since October 2023. Most of them have also failed to penetrate Israeli defenses. The Hamas terrorist network — which has governed the Gaza Strip since 2006 — could have taken the billions in funds sent by misguided Europeans, Russians, and Americans and made the Gaza Strip into something akin to Las Vegas without the booze. Instead, they amassed arms, communications equipment, and dug tunnels to attack Israel. The Biden-Harris crew is still helping Israel’s enemies. Harris announced last week that they were sending $150 million to Lebanon to aid in its supposed humanitarian crisis. None of that money will ever help Lebanese civilians. It will all be seized by Hizballah and used to fund more terrorism. (Biden-Harris, in contrast, is sending $100 million for aid to U.S. citizens in North Carolina. Biden has said that the money will run out before the end of the year. Having Funneled Emergency Money to Aliens, there’s supposedly none left for our own citizens.) The Israelis fight every war as if their lives depended on victory, which they do. Since last October 7, they have managed to kill terrorist leaders in Tehran, in Beirut, in Gaza and several other places. And they have fought a multi-front war from Gaza to Syria to Lebanon to Iran and Iraq. Those of us of advancing age remember when President Lyndon Johnson and his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, “helped” the professionals fight the Vietnam war by personally choosing the targets to be bombed and the routes the aircrews would fly. That resulted in the loss of too many American flyers who were killed or shot down and imprisoned in hell holes such as the “Hanoi Hilton.” How To Strike Iran Now President Biden is trying to do the same. Last week he told the press that America wouldn’t support an Israeli counterstrike to the October 1 attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. He hinted that we might support an attack on Iranian oil facilities instead. The Israelis can be counted on to ignore Biden. And they should. Unlike the Iranians, the Israelis will attack only military targets, of which there is a bountiful list. The list ranges from killing Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to bombing Iran’s nuclear and oil facilities. It includes bombing Iran’s parliament. Nevertheless, the Israelis have to calibrate their counterstrike carefully and can be expected to do something no one expects. Bombing Iran’s oil export facilities could weaken China which, according to a Reuters report, gets about 15 percent of its oil, over one million barrels a day, from Iran. That would be a strategic effect high on our list. Bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities must be even higher on Israel’s list. The Israelis know that, despite Biden’s effort to protect Iran’s nuclear sites, Iran is close to deploying nuclear-armed missiles. Iran will, sooner rather than later, attack Israel with those weapons. Any attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could delay Iran’s plans. Israel’s intelligence about Iran is, of necessity, better than ours. Israel could take out much or all of Iran’s cyberwar capability if it chose to. Iran, like China and Russia and possibly North Korea, is trying to interfere in our November election through cyberwar and social media. Any Israeli attack on Iran’s cyberwar capabilities — or its oil or nuclear facilities, or all of these targets — should be welcomed, not condemned, by Biden. America is too self-absorbed over the November election to pay much attention to Israel or Ukraine. Just last Thursday, Kamala Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, promised that Muslims would have a role in a Harris administration, a “side-by-side” relationship. Israel will be shunned by Harris despite all of her assurances to the contrary. (READ MORE: The World, Israel, and Our Diplomacy of Dunces) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a very tough guy. Years ago, he served as a member of Israel’s Sayaret Maktal, one of its special forces groups. He understands the threat Iran poses and the threat Kamala Harris, if she’s elected, will pose. He and his war cabinet must choose to strike at Iran decisively. Whatever the Israelis decide to do, they cannot count on support from Mr. Biden or Ms. Harris. 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