They think you are a fool. They think that if they flood your television screens and social media feeds with enough decontextualized images of suffering, with enough carefully curated scenes of mourning for our enemies, you will forget. They believe your emotions can be manipulated so completely that you will miss the simple, terrifying truth staring you in the face.

They are counting on you to confuse the firefighter with the arsonist. They want you to condemn the nation that acted to prevent a global catastrophe, while you weep for the very regime that has spent decades trying to light the world on fire. It is a disgusting, cynical, and profoundly dangerous lie. And it is time to shatter it.

The Great Deception: A Camera Trick to Hide a Nuclear Bomb

Let’s be brutally honest about the narrative being sold to you. It is a masterclass in misdirection. As Israel executed one of the most precise, courageous, and strategically vital counter-terror operations in modern history—Operation Am Kelavi—what did the international media show you? They fixated on the tragic, but separate and pre-existing, conflict in Gaza. They used it as a smokescreen, a deliberate distraction to prevent you from looking at the real, existential threat emanating from Tehran.

They showed you mass state funerals for Iranian commanders and scientists, painting them as beloved national figures. These were not poets or philosophers. These were the architects of global terror. These were the men building the nuclear bomb explicitly intended to annihilate Israel's nine million citizens. These were the paymasters of Hamas and Hezbollah, the engineers of slaughter from Buenos Aires to Burgas. To humanize them is not journalism; it is the active laundering of a terrorist state’s reputation. It is an act of moral perversion.

Simultaneously, they amplify every scurrilous allegation against Israel, no matter how dubious the source. The Haaretz “killing field” claim, the Al Jazeera “starvation” narrative—these are not objective reports, but weaponized pieces of information fired from the same propaganda cannons that support the Iranian regime’s vision of regional domination. They are designed to paralyze Israel with false accusations of war crimes, all while the real war criminal, the Iranian regime, inches closer to the ultimate weapon.

And to complete the farce, they whisper that this was all a political game for Prime Minister Netanyahu, a cynical ploy to escape domestic troubles. How condescending. How utterly contemptuous of a nation’s legitimate right to survive. When a genocidal enemy reaches the nuclear point of no return, a leader’s duty is to act, not to consult international opinion polls that have been poisoned by lies.

A Story of Patience Exhausted

How did we get here? This was not a rash decision. It was the tragic, inevitable conclusion of a forty-year campaign of terror waged by Iran against Israel and the civilized world. For decades, Israel endured. We watched as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) armed, trained, and funded a ring of terror proxies on our very borders. We intercepted their weapon shipments, thwarted their attacks, and pleaded with the world to see the threat.

We pursued diplomacy. We supported sanctions. We watched with profound disappointment as deal after deal was signed, based on the fantasy that a regime that chants “Death to America, Death to Israel” could be trusted. The regime in Tehran took the world’s goodwill, cashed the checks, and used the time to secretly enrich uranium, perfect their ballistic missiles, and move their nuclear program to the point of no return. They lied. As they always do. They used negotiations as a smokescreen for nuclear escalation.

When our intelligence confirmed that the moment was imminent—that the Iranian regime was on the precipice of possessing a weapon of annihilation—all other options were exhausted. The world had failed to stop them. Diplomacy was a charade. To wait any longer would have been an act of national suicide. Israel acted not because it wanted to, but because it had to. It was the last resort of a nation that chooses life.

Choose Your Champion: The Defender of Life or the Cult of Death?

The moral contrast could not be starker. It is a choice between clarity and chaos, between a society that builds and a regime that destroys.

Israel’s action, Operation Am Kelavi, was the model of modern moral warfare. It was surgical. Using superior intelligence and technology, we targeted the head of the serpent: the specific IRGC commanders responsible for terror, the key scientists driving the nuclear program, and the hardened infrastructure of their weapons of mass destruction. Our goal was, and is, to eliminate threats with minimal collateral impact.

Now look at our adversary. The Iranian regime and its proxies deliberately target civilians. They fire barrages of heavy, unguided missiles into our cities. They embed their military assets in schools, hospitals, and mosques. They celebrate the murder of innocents. Theirs is a death cult, one that oppresses its own people—especially women, minorities, and free-thinkers—and exports that model of violent misery across the globe.

To those who cry “nuclear hypocrisy,” the argument is an insult to intelligence. A nuclear weapon in the hands of a stable democracy, one that has never called for the destruction of another nation, is a tool of deterrence. A nuclear weapon in the hands of a messianic, apocalyptic theocracy that has openly and repeatedly promised to commit genocide is a tool of global blackmail and mass murder. There is no equivalence.

Why Courage Now Prevented Catastrophe Later

Understand this critical point: Operation Am Kelavi was not an act of escalation. It was a profound act of de-escalation. By acting with courage and precision, Israel prevented a much larger, much deadlier war—a war that a nuclear-armed Iran would have inevitably triggered.

Our surgical strikes on their command-and-control centers and launch sites crippled their ability to retaliate, reducing their planned missile salvos by an estimated 80%. We restored a level of deterrence that had been eroded by years of Western appeasement. We sent an unmistakable message: the days of impunity are over. We have shown the bullies in Tehran that there is a price for their aggression.

A world without the IRGC is a better, safer world. A Middle East free from the shadow of a nuclear Iran is a more stable Middle East. Israel did not just do a favor for itself; it did a favor for every nation that values freedom and stability. We acted to protect our families, but in doing so, we protected the entire world from a nightmare scenario.

The choice before you is simple. You can continue to be swayed by the emotional theatrics and malicious lies of those who would see the world burn, or you can stand with the clear, courageous truth. You can stand with the defenders.

What can you do?

• Share this truth. Do not let the lies stand unchallenged in your conversations and on your social media feeds. The truth is our most powerful weapon.
• Demand accountability from your media. Ask them why they are humanizing terror masters. Ask them why they ignore the context of Iran’s 40-year war on the West.
• Tell your elected officials to stand with the defenders, not the aggressors. Urge them to support Israel’s right to self-defense and to recognize that this action has made us all safer.