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Israel’s friends on the right have every reason to pay attention when a former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sounds the alarm about a coordinated global threat, and veteran commentator Ruthie Blum made that warning plain on Newsmax this week. Blum, who served in Netanyahu’s office and is a regular on conservative outlets, told viewers these recent terror incidents “are not isolated” and fit the pattern Israel has been warning about since the October 7 massacre.
This is not partisan paranoia; it is simple reality. Israeli leaders have long used the apt metaphor of Iran as “the head of the octopus,” with Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other proxies as the tentacles — and recent reporting makes clear Israel and U.S. analysts see Tehran at the center of a sprawling, aggressive network. Those assessments explain why Israel has shifted from fighting individual cells to aiming at the infrastructure and sponsors that enable them.
Meanwhile our allies in Europe and law-enforcement agencies have been blunt: the Iranian crisis has raised the threat level across the West, from plots to cyberattacks and foiled operations on the continent to assassination schemes against dissidents. Intelligence bodies like Europol have warned that the spillover from Tehran’s belligerence is already producing real, near-term risks for Western cities and institutions. This isn’t abstract geopolitics — it is a public-safety issue that voters and policymakers must treat accordingly.
Americans who still think soft diplomacy and endless negotiations will tame Tehran should look back at October 7, 2023, when Hamas’ coordinated attack slaughtered and kidnapped hundreds — an event that only confirmed for many that these groups operate with state-level backing and ambition. Israel’s response and its insistence on striking the regime’s enabling capacity flows from that brutal lesson; the country’s leaders believe, rightly, that you cannot dismantle an octopus by clipping a few tentacles.
Ruthie Blum’s sharp reaction on a conservative platform is exactly the kind of clear-eyed clarity Americans deserve: stop normalizing terror and start naming the sponsors. For too long a coalition of appeasers, naïve diplomats and media moralizers have treated acts of jihadist violence as disconnected, when the evidence shows a clear chain of command, funding and training that lead back to Tehran. If we insist on pretending otherwise, we will keep paying the price in blood and instability.
Patriots should demand a policy that recognizes this reality — strong defenses at home, iron support for allies that face the brunt of the violence, and targeted pressure on the regime that fuels global terrorism. The choice is not between war and peace; it is between a sober, resolute defense of civilization and the slow surrender to an ideology that openly celebrates murder and subjugation. Let the country that still prizes liberty stand with its friends, call evil by its name, and back the decisive measures necessary to choke off the octopus at its head.
