FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – In case you missed it, following the brutal October 7^th attacks by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists on Israel, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for the South Florida Sun Sentinel to detail the disastrous consequences of the Biden administration’s failed foreign policy and appeasement of evil regimes like Iran, and urge President Biden to immediately change course and hold Iran accountable. Three weeks ago, Iran-backed Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and killed more than 1,400 innocent people, including at least 32 Americans, while taking an unknown number of Israelis and Americans hostage.   

In the Sun Sentinel op-ed, Senator Rick Scott wrote, “The terror and devastation unleashed on Israelis by Iran-backed Hamas terrorists have rightly horrified the world.

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Not since the Holocaust has the world witnessed such a brutal attack on the Jewish people.

Years ago, facing the evil of the Nazi regime, FDR and Winston Churchill rightly gave the Axis powers a choice: total unconditional surrender or complete destruction. These leaders understood the evil they were dealing with. Instead of seeing leadership like this take hold today, the naiveté and foolish pride of our current administration is getting Americans killed and taken hostage.

Coddling Iran won’t work

The Biden administration’s return to policies rooted in trying to pay off terror states like Iran and its proxies, trying to negotiate with them as though they respect diplomacy and the rules of the civilized world, has been an utter failure. It is endangering one of our closest allies, Israel, the lynchpin of security and peace for the Middle East.

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The world saw what peace through strength looked like during the Trump administration.

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During the Trump administration, we also secured our southern border, denying terror groups the ability to infiltrate American communities like they have for the last three years under President Joe Biden.

More than 150 individuals on the FBI terror watch list have been apprehended by the U.S. border patrol in the last year. Since Oct. 1, 2021, nearly 73,000 individuals from countries that have conditions that favor or harbor terrorism, or pose a potential national security to the U.S., have been caught between ports of entry, trying to sneak into our country.

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Importantly, Trump also led historic moves toward peace. The Abraham Accords, negotiated by the Trump administration, brought Israel and its Arab neighbors together in peaceful agreements that made these nations and the Middle East safer, more stable and more prosperous — all things that benefit the security of the United States and our allies.

A poor comparison

Unfortunately, things are now in a very different place. From the beginning of his administration, Biden has snubbed Israel and our enemies have noticed.

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Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan gave America’s enemies and the terror groups they support a new foothold in the Middle East.

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These failures have emboldened Iran, which is not a normal nation. It is a mullah-ruled radical theocracy and crime syndicate that plagues not only the region but the entire world. Small wonder that Iran’s only friends are the other enemies of the United States — Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela — who have been cooperating for years to support each other with money, weapons, technology and political support, and to harm, isolate and weaken America.

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Time for a change

But the logical question is, how do they get away with it? The answer: We let them do it. The key to understanding the U.S. and the Western failure is the actions of President Barack Obama, which are being continued by the Biden administration.

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That’s why I have absolutely opposed Biden’s Iranian appeasement policies and attempts to renew the failed Iran nuclear deal.

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The U.S. and our allies must punish the evil Iranian regime, the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, and must deny its ability to continue supporting the brutality witnessed in Israel from ever occurring again.

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In the days and weeks ahead, Israel is going to once and for all destroy Hamas and its ability to exist as a terror state on Israel’s borders, and it is likely going to extract a heavy price from Iran for this carnage and war that is every bit the doing of Iran.

Iran is the source of the evil. Everyone knows that is true. Until it and its proxies are reduced to impotence, war and violence against the U.S., Israel, Jews, the region’s states and Europe will continue.

The West, in particular members of the G7, have a choice: Accept reality and end the threats, or continue the fantasy of payoffs and negotiations to murderous thugs. I fervently pray that we choose the former and unite to end this evil, once and for all.”

Read the full op-ed in the South Florida Sun Sentinel HERE.

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