Enough Lies Israel Will Not Apologize
Ask the average person why there is war in the Middle East and you will hear the same reflex answer. Israel is to blame. Israel is the aggressor. Israel started it. Say instead that Israel is a country fed up with decades of relentless terror and people look at you as if you just repeated propaganda. That reaction is not based on knowledge. It is based on conditioning. And it collapses the moment facts enter the room.
Here are the facts.
Since 1980 there have been more than 40,000 non suicide terror attacks against Jews. That number does not even include roughly 150 to 200 suicide bombings since the late 1980s. It does not include more than 40,000 rockets fired indiscriminately from Gaza into Israeli cities since 2001. These are not isolated incidents. This is a sustained campaign of violence targeting civilians for one reason only. They are Jews living in their own country.
And still Israel is called the aggressor.
Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally. It dismantled settlements. It handed over land in the hope of peace. What followed was not coexistence but slaughter. Terror groups took control and turned Gaza into a launchpad for attacks. To claim this was self defense is not just wrong. It is a deliberate twisting of reality that excuses the murder of civilians.
Now Israel fights back and suddenly the world rediscovers its moral outrage. Enough is enough. No country on earth would tolerate what Israel has endured. Not one.
Look at the so called narrative that dominated the conversation before October 2023. Gaza was described as an open air prison. People repeated it endlessly as if saying it often enough would make it true. The numbers tell a different story.
In 2022 alone over 74,000 truckloads of goods entered Gaza from Israel. Food. Medicine. Construction materials. Essentials for daily life. Industrial diesel flowed in to power Gaza’s plant in massive quantities. Cooking gas reached tens of thousands of tons. Goods were exported out of Gaza as well. Thousands of truckloads left for markets, most through Israel. Even while rockets were being fired at Israeli civilians, crossings stayed open for humanitarian aid.
Does that sound like starvation. Does that sound like isolation. Or does it sound like a complex reality that was deliberately reduced to a slogan because the slogan was more useful for demonizing Israel.
The truth is uncomfortable but simple. If Gaza suffers it is because its rulers chose war over welfare. Resources meant for civilians were diverted into rockets, tunnels, and weapons. Cement for homes became infrastructure for terror. Fuel for hospitals powered attacks. Civilians were not protected. They were used.
And the world helped create this situation.
Media repeated unverified claims. Activists amplified them. International bodies echoed them. The result was a global narrative that rewarded violence and punished restraint. Terror groups learned a clear lesson. Attack Israel and the world will blame Israel. Hide behind civilians and the cameras will focus on the response, not the cause.
Then came October 7. Massacres. Kidnappings. Atrocies that should have erased all illusions. And yet even then many rushed not to condemn but to explain, to contextualize, to shift blame back to Israel. That reflex reveals the problem more clearly than any statistic.
Israel is now doing what any sovereign nation must do. Defending its citizens. Dismantling terror networks. Confronting those who fund and direct violence across the region. Hamas. Islamic Jihad. Hezbollah. And behind them, the regime that sponsors and fuels much of this terror. This is not escalation for its own sake. This is a line being drawn after decades of restraint.
Ask yourself a simple question. If your cities were hit by thousands of rockets, would your government do nothing. If your civilians were massacred, would you call for patience. After September 11 the world united behind a war on terror. There was no endless debate about whether a response was justified. It was understood.
So why is it different now.
There is an answer, and it is uncomfortable. When Jews defend themselves, it becomes controversial. When others do it, it is expected. That double standard has shaped this conflict for decades and it has cost lives.
If Israel falls, the threat does not disappear. It spreads. The same forces that target Israel do not hide their ambitions. They do not stop at borders. They do not negotiate in good faith. They exploit weakness.
This is not just Israel’s fight. It never was.
So stop pretending this is complicated. Stop hiding behind slogans. Stop rewarding those who use terror as strategy. Israel is not asking for permission to survive. It is asserting a right every nation has.
Would you stand by and let your country be attacked without response.
No.
And neither will Israel.
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My journey as an advocate for Israel began early. When I was 11 years old, my father was deployed to the Middle East through his work with UNTSO. I had the unique experience of living in both Syria and Israel, and from a young age, I witnessed firsthand the contrast in cultures and realities. That experience shaped me profoundly.
Returning to the Netherlands, I quickly became aware of the growing wave of anti-Israel sentiment — and I knew I had to speak out. Ever since, I’ve been a fierce and unapologetic supporter of Israel. I’m not religious, but my belief is clear and unwavering: Israel has the right to exist, and Israel has the duty to defend herself.
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