Israelis — Arabs, Jews, and Christians alike — are being terrorized, as thousands of Iranian-supplied rockets fired by Hamas in Gaza rain down on multiple cities including Tel Aviv, and Islamist rioters, incited to kill Jews by their leaders, wreak havoc in Jerusalem. This apparently sudden conflagration is anything but. The escalating violence, both on the streets and in the attacks by Hamas, is all deliberate, and it can be traced directly back to Iran.

Iran’s motivations are plain to see. Facing a balance of payments crisis, with accessible foreign currency reserves down to $4 billion from $183 billion, according to the World Bank, the Islamic Republic has been brought low by America’s robust enforcement of sanctions, while popular dissatisfaction with the regime is reaching critical levels. It has also been cut off at the knees by the new era of Arab-Israeli comity heralded by the Abraham Accords. No other country is as threatened by the new Middle East as Iran, and no group of recalcitrant Jew-hating terrorists wants to upend Israel’s growing ties across the Arab and Islamic world more than Iran’s client, Hamas.