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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/opinion/iran-israel-strikes.html
Israel Had the Courage to Do What Needed to Be Done
(New York Times) Bret Stephens - Critics of Israel's attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets might at least ask themselves whether Israel had any realistic alternative against an adversary that has repeatedly vowed to wipe it off the map. Iran has been deceiving the world for years while gathering the means to build multiple nuclear weapons. Hizbullah has been quiet since Israel's attack, a result of its swift decimation at Israeli hands last September. That, too, was denounced by Israel's critics as dangerously escalatory. But now it's paying dividends in the form of constricted Iranian retaliatory options and the end of the pro-Iranian regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. As for the prospect of Iran now racing toward a bomb, evidence suggests it was already doing so anyway. Israel's strike is a display of clarity and courage for which we may all one day be grateful.