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JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 The U.S. war with Iran has reached the 6-month mark. In Washington, some lawmakers are encouraging the White House to keep up the pressure on the regime.<\/p>\n
As the fighting passed into its seventh month, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told\u00a0NBC’s Meet the Press\u00a0<\/em>that many of the military objectives set by the White House\u00a0have been met, but he’s encouraging the Trump administration to go further.<\/p>\n \u201cI would like to see the longer-term objective be regime collapse,” Cruz stated.<\/p>\n He added, “This\u00a0regime, the Islamic regime of Iran, has been the leading state sponsor of terror for 47 years.\u00a0So, what I\u2019ve been urging is for President Trump and the Trump Administration to arm the protestors, the people of Iran. Arm the Kurds and let the protestors remove this regime from power\u00a0\u2013 not American\u00a0boots on the ground but the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n While the main battlefront is the economy and the blockade, Iran vowed to respond to a U.S. attack on two Iranian launchers.<\/p>\n For the first time in more than a month, the U.S. attacked Iran, hitting the two launchers on an Island in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. CENTCOM said Iran was planning to launch mines into the Strait, just days after the U.S. said the waterway was cleared.<\/p>\n President Trump told Fox News,\u00a0<\/em>“It can be a nuisance, but we are in control of the Hormuz Strait.”<\/p>\n ***Please sign up for\u00a0CBN Newsletters\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to ensure you\u00a0receive the latest news from a Christian perspective.***<\/p>\n In Judea and Samaria, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he called criminal acts of Jewish violence committed in the villages of Qusra and Jalud.<\/p>\n Spokesman Doron Spielman later issued a statement on X<\/em>, oberserving, “These acts were committed by a small group of rioters, many from broken homes and many who do not come from Judea and Samaria. They do not represent the law-abiding Jewish community in Judea and Samaria.\u00a0 On the contrary, they cause that community a grave injustice.\u00a0 Their actions violate the law.\u00a0 They endanger both Jews and Arabs … and they harm Israel\u2019s international legitimacy.”<\/p>\n Spielman also pointed out, “However, by contrast we have yet to see the Palestinian Authority condemn even one of the thousands of murderous acts against Jews in Judea and Samaria.\u00a0 In fact, instead of condemning these attacks, it condones them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n In response, an\u00a0advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared, “The reaction (i.e., the attempted murder) should not be condemned, rather the (Israeli) perpetrator of the (original) crime should be condemned first and foremost.”<\/p>\n Over the weekend, Jaber al-Harmi, the head\u00a0Qatar’s state-run media outlet Al-Sharq News,\u00a0<\/em>called for the end of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n He posted on\u00a0X, <\/em>“O God, the Jews have transgressed and acted tyrannically and spread corruption on earth. O God…disperse their unity\u00a0and divide their gathering and remove their existence from the earth. O God..soon, without delay.”<\/p>\n This rhetoric is\u00a0why some Israeli leaders want to designate Qatar as an enemy state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 The U.S. war with Iran has reached the 6-month mark. In Washington, some lawmakers are encouraging the White House to keep up the pressure on the regime. 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