Israel, Palestine, and Jason Jones, by Peter Wolfgang

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, June 14, 2025

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, the Waterbury Republican-American, Crisis Magazine, Columbia Magazine, the National Catholic Register, CatholicVote, Catholic World Report, the Stream and Ethika Politika. He lives in Waterbury, Conn., with his wife and their seven children. The views expressed on Catholic Culture are solely his own. See full bio.

Two things can be true at the same time. Take, for instance, Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military infrastructure this week. It’s possible to believe that Iran brought this on themselves. Indeed, that they have had it coming for a long time, perhaps as far back as the hostage crisis during the Carter era. That Iran’s rulers were high stakes gamblers who just lost their gamble. That the mullahs made their final, fatal, miscalculation beginning on October 7th, 2023, when one of their proxies in their “Axis of Resistance” butchered Israelis, setting in motion a war that has picked off many of those proxies and may now lead to the dismantling of the Iranian regime itself.

It’s possible to believe all that and still be sickened by the cheering for war that I saw on the Fox News Channel on Thursday night, as the attacks were being conducted. To remember how the same voices on cable news and conservative publications stampeded our own country off to preemptive war on faulty information and with disastrous consequences. To remember, especially, how the domestic blowback from being yoked to neoconservative interventionism nearly destroyed the hopes of pro-life and pro-family activists for a re-moralization of the United States in the early 21st century. …

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