The Middle East thrives on chaos and recoils from clarity.

For decades, Washington favored polite, calculated ambiguity—a failed policy that pleased diplomats while solving nothing. This era of cautious management gave way to U.S. President Donald Trump’s disruptive “deal or else” approach—a transactional foreign policy that recognized a singular truth: The only path to stability is through a U.S.-backed, ironclad deterrence with a strong Israel as the essential pillar.

The Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 men, women and children in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023—a barbaric act of terror by Hamas and its Iranian sponsors—did more than shatter a fragile peace. It exposed the disastrous folly of substituting wishful thinking for the ruthless reality of ideological warfare.

Today, as the post-

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