Let’s be clear. You are being manipulated. A simple, poisonous story is being fed to you daily, a story of villains and victims meticulously crafted to invert reality itself. In this story, the defender is cast as the aggressor. The beacon of democracy in a sea of tyranny is painted as the oppressor. And the world’s most prolific exporter of terror, the Iranian regime, is somehow draped in the absurd cloak of victimhood.

This is more than just a lie; it is a calculated assault on moral clarity. It is a dangerous fantasy that props up despots and condemns free people for the crime of surviving. It’s time to shatter that fantasy. It’s time for the truth.

The Smokescreen of Calculated 'Tragedy'

They show you heart-wrenching images and demand your outrage. A seaside cafe in Gaza. An infamous prison in Tehran. They package these events as proof of Israeli cruelty, of indiscriminate violence. It is a powerful deception, and it relies on you never asking the next, most crucial question: why?

They don't want you to ask why Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, deliberately embeds its commanders and operations within the fabric of civilian life. When a senior Hamas commander turns a public cafe into a field office, he is the one who transforms that cafe into a legitimate military target. The tragedy is real, but the culpability lies squarely with the terrorists who use their own people as shields. Every cry of “disproportionate response” is a victory for Hamas’s ghoulish strategy. It is a strategy the world, in its naivete, seems determined to reward.

They tell you Israel attacked Evin Prison, a “symbol of political dissidence,” to undermine a message of liberation. This is a contemptible lie. For the Iranian regime, Evin Prison has long served a dual purpose: a place to crush dissent, yes, but also a fortified command-and-control center for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It is a nerve center where the orders for global terror are conceived and transmitted. To frame a surgical strike on the butchers of the IRGC as an attack on the oppressed is a grotesque distortion. The profound sadness is that the Iranian regime is so monstrous, so cowardly, that it co-locates its centers of evil with the very people it brutalizes. The blame for any life lost there rests with the tyrants who built that system.

The Patience of a Nation Stretched to Its Breaking Point

How we hoped it would not come to this. For decades, Israel has been the canary in the coal mine, warning the world about the nature of the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran. We presented the evidence of its relentless march toward a nuclear weapon—a weapon it has explicitly and repeatedly promised to use for our annihilation. We endured the constant rain of rockets from its proxies—Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza—all funded, armed, and directed by Tehran.

We pursued diplomacy. We absorbed attacks. We waited. And in return for our restraint, the world offered empty resolutions and fatally flawed deals that enriched the regime and accelerated its nuclear ambitions. Iran used negotiations as a smokescreen, playing for time while its centrifuges spun faster and its proxies grew bolder.

Then, the moment came. Intelligence confirmed that the regime had reached a nuclear “point of no return.” The threat was no longer theoretical; it was imminent. All other options had been exhausted. The choice was simple and stark: act, or wait for annihilation. “Operation Am Kelavi” was not an act of aggression. It was the desperate, courageous roar of a nation that refused to be led quietly to the slaughter.

The Unmistakable Moral Contrast

Do not allow yourself to be lost in the fog of moral equivalency. There is no comparison between a nation fighting for its life and a death cult that glorifies martyrdom. The contrast could not be sharper.

Israel uses its intelligence and technology with surgical precision to target the terrorists who seek to murder its families. Iran and its proxies deliberately fire heavy, unguided missiles into Israeli cities with the express purpose of killing civilians.

Israel makes every effort to warn civilians to evacuate areas where terrorists are hiding. Hamas orders those same civilians to stay put, to serve as human shields for its cowardly fighters.

Israel is a democracy—flawed and noisy, like all democracies—that values life, freedom, and innovation. The Iranian regime is a violent, extremist, religious tyranny whose declared vision is the destruction of Israel and the West. It is a regime that murders its own women for showing their hair and hangs gay men from cranes. To stand with this regime, even through misguided silence, is a moral stain.

And to those who point to fringe extremists among Israeli settlers as some kind of moral equivalent, you are engaging in a disgusting false balance. These are lawless elements that the State of Israel itself prosecutes. They are not state policy. Iran’s terrorism, by contrast, is state policy. It is the core of the regime’s identity.

The Strategic Imperative: Preventing a Global Catastrophe

Understand this critical point: Israel’s actions were not an escalation. They were a profound act of de-escalation. By striking at the head of the serpent—the IRGC leadership and their nuclear infrastructure—Israel did not start a war. It prevented a much larger, more catastrophic one.

Imagine a world where the Ayatollahs in Tehran possess a nuclear bomb. Imagine them holding the entire Middle East, the world’s energy supply, and global stability hostage to their fanatical ideology. That is the future Israel just prevented. The limited, precise strikes paralyzed Iran’s command structure and restored a level of deterrence that diplomacy utterly failed to achieve. This was a blow for freedom, a favor to the oppressed people of Iran who long for the day this regime is gone, and a necessary step towards a safer world for all.

Naive gestures like pension funds divesting are meaningless in the face of such an existential threat. They are the self-soothing acts of those who are too distant to understand the stakes, content to virtue-signal while others fight for their very existence.

The world should be thanking Israel for doing it a massive favor by confronting the greatest engine of terror, extremism, and hatred on the planet. Instead, it is being swayed by the lies of the aggressor.

The choice is now yours. You can continue to believe the comfortable lie, or you can stand with the uncomfortable truth.

So what can you do?

• Share this truth. Do not let the lies and the propaganda stand unchallenged in your conversations and on your social media feeds.
• Demand moral clarity from your elected officials. Tell them to stop equivocating and to stand with the defenders, not the architects of terror.
• Do not be silent. Your voice is a weapon in the fight for civilization. In the face of this malicious deception, silence is complicity. Use your voice now.