Near the end of last month, representatives from Germany, Britain, and France presented the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with evidence of the Islamic Republic’s progress toward building nuclear weapons. Many experts believe that the ayatollahs, if they so desired, could produce enough highly enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb in a week, and enough for twelve in five months. To Eran Lerman, a nuclear Iran is a greater threat to Israeli security than Iran-backed militias in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen:

Under these circumstances it is incumbent upon the Israeli leadership, as well as the intelligence community and the relevant parts of the defense and foreign-policy establishment, to ring the alarm bells and refocus attention (internally, in terms of tasks and resources, and internationally) on the challenge posed by the Iranian nuclear project.

Israel’s leadership must engage once again in generating the necessary legitimacy for action against Iran’s nuclear project—preferably [without direct military action], but violently if necessary. This can be done in conjunction with other concerned nations, but alone if necessary. The current level of readiness facing Hizballah in the north, and the growing signs of Lebanese reluctance to be drawn into an all-out destructive war, create a window of opportunity for such action in the coming weeks and months.

Examining the Trump administration’s proposals for the people of Gaza, Danielle Pletka writes:

I do not believe that the forced cleansing of Gaza—a repetition of what every Arab country did to the hundreds of thousands of Arab Jews in 1948— is a “solution.” I don’t think Donald Trump views that as a permanent solution either (read his statement), though I could be wrong. My take is that he believes Gaza must be rebuilt under new management, with only those who wish to live there resettling the land.

The time has long since come for us to recognize that the establishment doesn’t have the faintest clue what to do about Gaza. Egypt doesn’t want it. Jordan doesn’t want it. Iran wants it, but only as cannon fodder. The UN wants it, but only to further its anti-Semitic agenda and continue milking cash from the West. Jordanians, Lebanese, and Syrians blame Palestinians for destroying their countries.

Negotiations with Hamas have not worked. Efforts to subsume Gaza under the Palestinian Authority have not worked. Rebuilding has not worked. Destruction will not work. A “two-state solution” has not arrived, and will not work.

So what’s to be done? If you live in Washington, New York, London, Paris, or Berlin, your view is that the same answers should definitely be tried again, but this time we mean it. This time will be different. . . . What could possibly make you believe this other than ideological laziness?