You are being lied to. You are being manipulated by a tidal wave of deliberate, malicious deceit designed to turn a clear act of self-preservation into a crime, and to paint the world’s most dangerous terror state as a victim. The media, international bodies, and a chorus of supposedly enlightened voices are not just getting the story wrong; they are actively inverting reality. They have built a narrative so divorced from the truth that it serves only one purpose: to condemn the defender and absolve the aggressor.

This is not a complex geopolitical puzzle. It is a simple moral choice. A choice between a democracy fighting for its life and a genocidal death cult that has promised, for forty years, to annihilate it. It is a choice between clarity and a fog of lies. It’s time to see through the fog.

The Anatomy of a Lie

Let’s begin with the lies themselves, for they are as brazen as they are obscene. We are told of Israeli “war crimes” at Evin Prison, with a neat death toll of 71 “civilians” provided by, of all sources, the Iranian judiciary—the very same institution that hangs homosexuals from cranes and sentences women to be stoned for showing their hair. The media reports this number as gospel. But they conveniently omit what Evin Prison truly is: the dark heart of the Ayatollah’s terror regime, a notorious center for torture, political imprisonment, and the strategic command of the IRGC’s global terror operations. To call a strike on the headquarters of your enemy’s butchers and assassins a “war crime” is a grotesque distortion. The true crime is the Iranian regime’s decades-long practice of embedding its military nerve centers within civilian infrastructure, a cowardly tactic designed for the sole purpose of generating sympathetic headlines when they are finally held to account.

Then comes the even more fantastical poison. We are fed stories, now laundered through mainstream financial press, of Israel distributing flour laced with opioids in Gaza. Let this sink in. This is a modern blood libel, a medieval accusation of poisoning wells repackaged for the 21st century. It is a lie so vile, so demonstrably false, that its circulation by any serious outlet is an act of journalistic arson. It is designed to dehumanize and paint Israelis not just as combatants, but as monstrous demons. This is not news; it is incitement.

And what of the motive? The world’s commentators, with a smug sense of discovery, have settled on the “Netanyahu’s political gambit” theory, using the noise of American politics as their definitive proof. This is the laziest, most cynical narrative of all. It dismisses decades of Iranian terror, its race for the bomb, and its explicit threats of annihilation as mere backdrop for a domestic political drama. It is a profound insult to the intelligence of anyone paying attention, a convenient way to ignore the terrifying reality that Israel faced.

The Truth of a Sword at Your Throat

Here is the truth that has been so thoroughly buried. For years, Israel endured. We watched with profound disappointment as the world tried to bargain with a regime that cannot be bargained with. For forty years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with Israel, with the West, with modernity itself. It is the world’s chief exporter of terror, funding Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and the Houthis in Yemen. Its agents carry out assassinations on European soil. Its leaders, week after week, lead chants of “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”

This was not a war Israel chose. It was a war that arrived on our doorstep daily, in the form of Iranian-funded rockets and terror cells. And then, we reached the precipice. The “point of no return.” Our intelligence, and the intelligence of our allies, was unequivocal: the Ayatollah’s regime was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon. All diplomatic paths had been exhausted, used by Iran as a smokescreen to enrich uranium and perfect their missile technology.

Imagine a knife being held to your throat. International law does not demand you wait for the blade to sever your artery before you are allowed to defend yourself. When a genocidal regime, which has flagrantly violated every international non-proliferation treaty, finally obtains the ultimate weapon—a weapon it has promised to use for your extinction—the time for waiting is over. Operation Am Kelavi was not an act of aggression. It was the desperate, reluctant, but absolutely necessary act of a nation refusing to be led to the slaughter.

The Moral Chasm

The moral contrast could not be clearer. It is a chasm between light and darkness. Israel, for all its imperfections, is a nation that consecrates life. We use our technology to create, to heal, to build. Our military, the IDF, is comprised of our children and grandchildren, and it operates under a strict code of conduct, using the most precise weaponry in the world to avoid civilian casualties wherever possible. We mourn every innocent life lost in the crossfire—a tragedy forced upon us by an enemy that hides behind its own people.

The Iranian regime consecrates death. It is a death cult. It celebrates martyrdom, funds suicide bombers, and oppresses its own people with medieval brutality. They do not value the lives of Iranians any more than they value the lives of Israelis. The sympathetic stories you read about the suffering of ordinary Iranians tragically miss the point: their primary tormentor is not Israel, but the tyrannical regime that has turned their proud nation into a global pariah and a giant military base. We acted to disarm their jailers. A world without the IRGC is a better world, most of all for the people of Iran.

The Strategic Imperative: Preventing a Greater Fire

Finally, let’s be coldly logical, as the passion of this moment is born from a terrible, rational calculus. The alternative to this limited, surgical strike was not peace. The alternative was a nuclear-armed Iran. A world where the Ayatollahs could blackmail the entire globe, ignite a regional nuclear arms race, and feel invulnerable as they unleashed their terror proxies without restraint. That is the world Israel refused to allow.

This action was an act of profound de-escalation. By crippling the IRGC’s command structure and destroying key infrastructure, Israel prevented a much larger, much deadlier regional war that Iran was preparing to launch. It was a painful but necessary move that restored deterrence and pulled the entire Middle East back from the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. It is a quiet, strategic truth that is being drowned out by the screams of manufactured outrage.

Israel has done the world a massive favor, and in return, the world condemns us. We acted to protect our families, and in doing so, we protected London, Paris, and New York from a nuclear-armed terror state. We accepted the burden of being the world's last line of defense against fanaticism, and we are being repaid with lies and hypocrisy.

The choice is clear. You can stand with the arsonists or the firefighters. You can believe the lies of a terror regime or you can accept the inconvenient truth of what was necessary to prevent an even greater tragedy.

So what can you do?

• Share this truth. Do not let the lies stand unchallenged in your conversations and on your social media feeds.
• Demand accountability from your media. Ask them why they uncritically repeat the talking points of the Iranian Ministry of Justice.
• Demand courage from your leaders. Tell them to stand with the defenders of the free world, not with the architects of global terror.