Marianna Benenson

The quiet, world-changing audacity of the home front

While jets roar toward Iran and history tilts on its axis, ordinary civilians in bomb shelters model a path to a brighter Middle East.

I lie in bed listening to our fighter jets fly out to Iran, and the gap between inside and outside the home never felt greater.

Outside my home, historic, world-altering events are taking place even as I write.

The Iranian regime, which cast its shadow of death and terrorism across the region and the world since the 1970s, is falling apart.

Its leader, who oversaw the slaughter of tens of thousands of Iranians in the very recent past, is dead.

The heart of the murderous network that darkened the lives of Iranians, Israelis, and other Middle Easterners for too long is finally, finally, exposed and vulnerable.

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