You’ve seen the headlines. You’ve felt the pang of outrage carefully curated for you by global news networks. You’ve seen the images of tragedy, presented in a vacuum of context so profound it amounts to a deliberate, malicious lie. And you’ve been led, step by step, to a conclusion that is not only wrong, but morally inverted.

You have been told that the defender is the aggressor. That the firefighter is the arsonist. That the nation fighting for its very existence against a genocidal death cult is the villain. It is a disgusting, pervasive, and dangerous deception. And it is time to tear it to shreds.

The Theater of Deception

Let’s talk about the lies. They are slick, emotional, and repeated so often they begin to feel like truth. They show you a bombed-out seaside cafe in Gaza and scream of Israeli brutality. They flash images of weeping mothers and demand your condemnation. It is a heart-wrenching spectacle. It is also a masterpiece of cynical propaganda.

What they don't show you is the enemy's doctrine. They don’t tell you that for Hamas and its patron, Iran, the death of their own civilians is not a tragedy but a strategic victory. Every dead child is a public relations triumph. They purposefully embed their rocket launchers, their command posts, and their ammunition depots next to schools, inside hospitals, and above cafes. They do this for one reason: so that when Israel is forced to strike these legitimate military targets, they can parade the inevitable, tragic collateral damage before the world’s cameras. Every civilian life lost is a wound, but who holds the knife? The soldier trying to neutralize a missile aimed at his family, or the terrorist who placed that missile behind a baby’s crib?

Then there is the lie about Iran’s Evin Prison. The headlines, fed by the tyrannical regime in Tehran, paint a picture of Israel attacking political dissidents. It’s a narrative so perfectly designed to manipulate Western hearts, and one the media has swallowed without question. How we hoped the world would see the truth on its own, but the naivete is staggering. We are asked to believe the official word of a government that tortures and hangs its own citizens for demanding basic freedom. This “prison” was a known, hardened command-and-control center for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—the nerve center from which global terror operations are planned and executed. Israel did not strike dissidents; it struck the very butchers who imprison and murder those dissidents. To equate the two is to spit on the graves of every freedom fighter in Iran.

The entire narrative you are being sold is a house of cards built on the word of terrorists and tyrants, amplified by a media ecosystem that profits from outrage, not truth.

The Anatomy of a Necessary Choice

For years, the world watched in silence. For years, Israel endured. We watched as Iran, the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror, spread its tentacles of death across the region. They armed Hezbollah in Lebanon with over 150,000 rockets. They funded Hamas in Gaza. They fueled a bloody civil war in Yemen. And all the while, their leaders, frothing with hate, chanted “Death to Israel” and openly promised our annihilation.

Simultaneously, they marched relentlessly towards a nuclear weapon. They lied to inspectors, they built secret facilities, and they enriched uranium to the brink of a bomb—a bomb they explicitly promised to use on us. We pursued diplomacy. We issued warnings. We shared intelligence. The world offered toothless resolutions and hollow condemnations. But patience is not a suicide pact. Diplomacy is not an option when your negotiating partner is building the weapon for your execution while sitting at the table.

We reached the “point of no return.” The intelligence was clear, the threat was imminent, the clock had run out. All other options were exhausted. “Operation Am Kelavi” was not an act of aggression. It was the desperate, courageous act of a nation refusing to be led to the slaughter. It was a surgical, precise, and necessary act of pre-emptive self-defense to decapitate the serpent before its nuclear venom could be unleashed.

The Moral Contrast

The line between Israel and its enemies is not a blurry one; it is a bright, unbreachable chasm between two opposing moral universes.

We, Israel, are a vibrant, flawed, but free democracy. We cherish life. Our innovations save lives around the world. Our army, the IDF, goes to unprecedented lengths to avoid civilian casualties, dropping leaflets, making phone calls, and using the most precise technology on earth to distinguish between terrorist and civilian. We mourn every single innocent life lost, on all sides.

The Iranian regime and its proxies are a death cult. They celebrate martyrdom. They use their own people as human shields. They indiscriminately fire thousands of rockets at our civilian cities. They hang gay people from cranes, murder women for showing their hair, and brainwash their children with a gospel of hatred and destruction.

This is the choice. There is no moral equivalence. This is light versus darkness. Life versus death. Freedom versus tyranny. To pretend otherwise is not just intellectual laziness; it is a moral failure of the highest order.

The World Owes Israel Its Gratitude

Let us be brutally clear. Israel did not act only for itself. A nuclear-armed Iran, a messianic regime that believes it can hasten the apocalypse, is not merely an Israeli problem. It is a threat to Riyadh, to Abu Dhabi, to Europe, and to the United States. It is a global catastrophe that was moments away from becoming reality.

Israel took the risk. Israel absorbed the condemnation. Israel performed the dangerous, necessary surgery that the world was too cowardly to attempt. By neutralizing the head of the IRGC and crippling their nuclear program, Israel did the entire free world a massive and unacknowledged favor. This limited action prevented a regional, and potentially nuclear, war of unimaginable horror.

Instead of praise for this act of reluctant heroism, we are met with sanctimonious lectures from the very nations we have protected. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

The time for polite debate is over. The narrative has been poisoned by lies, and it is time for a global dose of truth.

The choice is clear. So, what can you do?

• Share this truth. Do not let the lies of terrorists and tyrants stand unchallenged on your social media feeds. Be a voice for clarity.
• Demand moral courage from your leaders. Ask them why they condemn the only democracy in the Middle East for defending itself, while remaining silent about the world’s largest engine of terror.
• Do not be silent. Your voice is a weapon in the fight for civilization. Understand that in this struggle, there is no room for neutrality. You either stand with the defenders of life, or you are, by your silence, siding with the merchants of death. Use your voice now.