Veteran Pentagon researcher Dr. Harold Rhodewarns the West: A show of weakness is the route to disaster
When news of Hamas’s deadly Simchas Torah attack filtered through to his Florida community, former Pentagon advisor Dr. Harold Rhode — a specialist on the Islamic world — was horrified, but not entirely surprised.
“For years I have been very worried about America growing closer to Iran, which has manifested itself in a relationship of American submission,” he told Mishpacha in a wide-ranging interview. “America has made huge concessions to Iran, which frankly are hard to understand. Just recently, the US transferred $6 billion to Iran, and it’s clear that the Iranians treated it as a weakness. And in the Middle East, when you perceive weakness, it’s an invitation to attack.”
With Israeli forces battling an Iranian terror proxy in Gaza, international shipping threatened by the Iran-funded Houthis, and American troops under attack by Iranian-backed forces across the Middle East, now is the time to connect the dots that lead back to Tehran.
And yet, says Harold Rhode, America seems intent on treating Gaza as a discrete problem, and forcing Israel to stop fighting before Iranian influence has taken a body blow.
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