Since its inception, Israel has been confronting terrorist operations carried out by its hostile neighbors in Muslim-majority countries and territories. The United States has faced similar operations since the 1979 Iranian uprising ushered in a revolutionary Shiite regime. Tehran’s Hezbollah terrorists repeatedly attacked Americans during the 1980s, and it became clear that our homeland was also a target when Sunni terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 — the start of a campaign that united Shiite and Sunni terrorists, that eventually executed the 9/11 suicide-hijackings, and that led to decades of American military entanglements in Middle East hellscapes.
Those entanglements have been a feature of life in Israel since before the Jewish state was established in 1948.
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