{"id":81455,"date":"2026-03-17T08:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81455"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:19:40","slug":"arab-newspaper-u-s-israel-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/arab-newspaper-u-s-israel-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Newspaper: U.S., Israel Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Al Jazeera:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war.<\/p>\n<p>The chorus is loud and, in some respects, understandable. War is ugly, and this one has imposed real costs on millions of people across the Middle East, including the city I live in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <em> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2026\/3\/16\/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why\">[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mywabashvalley.com\/federal-executions\/william-lecroy-executed-at-u-s-penitentiary\/\">]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/defense\/wars\/war-with-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Epic Fury<\/a> is receiving praise from an unlikely source. Al Jazeera, the Qatari government-funded news organization, published an op-ed Monday declaring in the headline, &#8220;The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working.&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war&#8230; But this narrative is wrong,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2026\/3\/16\/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the piece began.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things. They are [cataloging] the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div id=\"desktop-desk-ad-lb2\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-ad-init=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CKHUsMH7ppMDFXWzywEdYBUYig\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"728x200\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773737237\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Arab Newspaper: U.S., Israel Winning\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Al Jazeera: Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}