The United States is protecting Israel in the eastern Mediterranean. The Joe Biden administration deployed a formidable naval force to the Middle East's doorstep as a deterrent not only to Lebanese Hezbollah, but also to Iran, Israel's main enemy in the region and a financier of that Islamist group and Hamas.

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