It's Obama's Middle East mess

“If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it’s my name on this,” then-President Barack Obama vowed in 2015. Whether or not Iran gets the bomb remains to be seen, but the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust is very much part of Obama’s legacy. That massacre and the war that has followed are inescapably linked to policies pursued by both Obama and his Democratic successor.

For Israel, the war against Hamas and other Iranian-backed terrorist groups is a war of necessity. On Oct. 7, Hamas and its allies invaded the Jewish state, murdering more than 1,200 Israelis. The details that have emerged bear comparison with the most savage events in all of human history.