The Strategic Burden of Israel’s “Iron Dome”
The Australian Jewish News by Michael Scott 10 April 2025

Extracts:

• Double standards and Hypocrisy

Beyond the immediate suffering, failing to confront aggression head-on emboldens adversaries to escalate their violence

History proves that unchallenged hostility does not fade — it festers

As General Douglas MacArthur once warned:
Observers now have the benefit of hindsight: ignoring threats does not neutralise them; it emboldens them

Each time Hamas, Hezbollah, other terrorists or Iran launched an attack without decisive repercussions,
1. they grew bolder,
2. relentlessly probing Israel’s red lines
3. and testing global tolerance for their terror campaigns

Yet, Western political elites — and most so called Israel allies — and media figures consistently overlook these realities

Instead they demand,
1. an unrealistic level of restraint from Israel
2. while ignoring far more aggressive counter-terrorism operations undertaken by other nations in the region