Disproportionate? The Lie That Fuels Terror
From the UN to CNN, a Dangerous Narrative Has Taken Hold — That Israel’s Military Response to Hamas Is “Disproportionate.”
But what would true proportionality look like?
Would it mean Israeli soldiers storming into Gaza, raping teenagers in front of their families, beheading babies, setting families on fire, Dragging grandmothers in their pajamas out of their beds and gleefully filming the carnage? Would it mean targeting concertgoers, burning children alive, mutilating bodies, and dragging them through the streets to cheering crowds?
Of course not. Israel would never do this.
This is what Hamas — and Palestinians who supported them — did on October 7.
And yet, the world demands restraint from the one country acting in self-defense — not only on behalf of its own citizens, but on behalf of civilization itself. What other nation is asked to endure a slaughter of its people and respond with “measured force”?
Western Hypocrisy Has a Body Count
In war after war — from Iraq and Afghanistan to Kosovo and Vietnam — the United States and its allies have leveled entire cities, killed hundreds of thousands, and justified it as necessary for national security.
During World War II alone, hundreds of thousands of civilians were incinerated in firebombing raids and atomic bombings. Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki — cities destroyed to break the enemy’s will. No one called these acts war crimes. They were understood as brutal but necessary measures to end tyranny.
And yet, somehow, Israel — a country that faces threats more intimate, more embedded, and more deliberately targeted at civilians than any Western nation in recent history — is told that its actions are “too much.”
Israel, by contrast, warns civilians to evacuate, airdrops leaflets, uses precision targeting, opens humanitarian corridors, and even facilitates aid — which Hamas then steals. No other military in history has made such efforts to minimize harm while fighting an enemy that embeds itself inside schools, hospitals, and mosques. And yet Israel is vilified as a war criminal — not by tyrants, but by democratic societies that should know better.
This Isn’t Just a War — It’s a Propaganda Campaign
Israel operates under relentless and asymmetric threat. Its enemy, Hamas, deliberately embeds itself in civilian areas, turning hospitals, schools, and even UN facilities into rocket-launching sites and terror command centers.
It fires thousands of rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilians, uses human shields, and proudly broadcasts mass executions and atrocities as acts of religious zealotry.
The result is an impossible military calculus: Israel must fight a war on two fronts — against terrorism and against the propaganda war waged in the international media.
Western media’s refusal to condemn Hamas in equal measure to Israel’s defense emboldens the terrorist group and its sponsors. It sends a message that barbarism and mass murder can be rewarded with moral equivalency and political leverage.
This encouragement enables Hamas to recruit, rearm, and continue its campaign of terror with impunity. In this way, the West’s disproportionate condemnation of Israel not only distorts reality but fuels the very conflict it claims to want to resolve.
If Palestinian Education Doesn’t Change, There Will Be More Massacres
The root of this evil is deeper than ideology. It is taught.
Hamas broadcasts children’s programming that glorifies martyrdom. It trains toddlers to wield weapons, chant for death, and dream of Jewish blood.
It grooms children in summer camps to “play war”
and practice how to commit terror attacks—wielding toy guns and pretending to break into homes. By the time they reach junior high age, they are capable of carrying out full-blown terrorist attacks on homes and places of worship.
This is not a fringe view — it is systematically embedded in the educational and media systems of Gaza and the Palestinian territories.
As long as generations are raised on hate, genocide will remain not a tragedy, but a goal.
If the world truly wants peace, it must begin with reforming the Palestinian educational system. Otherwise, October 7 will not be the exception. It will be the template.
Peace Was Not Just Offered — It Was Lived
This is not a story of unending hostility. It is a story of unimaginable betrayal.
For decades, Israel bent over backward to make peace: withdrawing from territory, allowing autonomy, permitting trade, building infrastructure, and coordinating humanitarian efforts. The Oslo Accords. Camp David. The Gaza withdrawal in 2005. Endless concessions. All met with terror.
The very people who lived closest to Gaza — the kibbutzim that suffered the worst of the October 7 attacks — were among the most hopeful. These were peace activists. They employed Gazans. They brought them into Israel for medical care. They advocated for coexistence and a two-state solution.
They lived that dream — until it became a nightmare.
These so-called friends learned the blueprints of their homes. They knew where the bomb shelters were. On October 7, they used that knowledge to massacre them — ripping grandmothers from their beds while still in their pajamas, dragging them screaming through the streets, brutally raping teenage girls in front of their families, shoving children and mothers to the ground, and slaughtering entire families — babies mercilessly murdered alongside their parents in a night of unspeakable horror.
Truth or Terror — The West Must Choose
For those who still seek clarity amid the fog of propaganda and media distortions, I recommend Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults, which incisively dissects Western hypocrisy and moral blindness in the face of existential threats.
Murray’s analysis exposes how the West’s self-inflicted moral paralysis endangers not just Israel, but the very principles of democracy and justice it claims to uphold.
Negotiation is not a virtue when it is weaponized against survival. Israel’s right to defend itself is not negotiable. Until its enemies renounce terror and embrace coexistence, calls to “negotiate” only empower those who wish to see Israel destroyed.
Fixating on ‘proportionality’ as if it exists in a moral vacuum is a dangerous blindfold — one that ignores historical reality, dismisses the brutal context of Hamas’s crimes, and refuses to acknowledge how the world, including Israel’s allies, has long responded decisively and justly to existential threats.
The West must choose whether to stand for truth — or continue down the path of selective outrage, with all the deadly consequences that entails.
Or better yet — go to Israel.
Look into the eyes of the survivors. See the ashes of children’s bedrooms. Visit the nova Memorial site and hostage Square.
See the mile of burnt-out cars riddled with bullet holes where Hamas slaughtered concertgoers fleeing for their lives from the Nova music festival.
And ask yourself what kind of world allows this — and then dares to condemn the victim.