The world that came together to fight ISIS lets Israel go it alone

At the peak of its rampage in 2014, the thought that ISIS could be pushed out of Iraq and Syria seemed unlikely. At the time, I was participating with a medical team as a physician working in the Kurdish region of Iraq, with ISIS less than 30 miles to the west. Having already expelled ISIS from central Iraq, the western-led coalition began the ultimately successful operation to liberate Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, from the clutches of ISIS.

Now, in an operation not dissimilar from the one that freed Iraq from ISIS, Israel is…