Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
The views expressed herein are solely mine.

Israel Speaks Truth, World Sides with Jihad

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing the UN's 80th General Assembly/ Europa Press

The world is rewarding terror and calling it peace. By rushing to “recognize Palestine,” global elites have handed a victory to Hamas — a jihadist group whose 1988 Charter declares: “There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.” This is not politics. It is scripture-sanctified extermination.

Hamas grounds its cause in religious calls for violence. Surah 9:29 commands: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah… until they pay the jizya with willing submission.” Surah 5:82 brands Jews as “the most intense” enemies of Islam. These verses are not metaphors. They are the core ideology Western leaders now elevate. And yet, Jerusalem is never mentioned once in the Qur’an. Its supposed “Islamic centrality” was political theater. Jews, by contrast, prayed toward Jerusalem for 3,000 years.

History exposes the fraud. Egypt controlled Gaza for nearly 20 years and never gave it to the Palestinians. Jordan annexed Judea and Samaria in 1950, then abandoned its claim in 1986. Under international law, that left the territory in dispute, not occupied. Palestinians themselves never demanded Gaza and the West Bank until after the Six-Day War, when their plan to erase Israel through total war had failed. The cause was never statehood. It was always Israel’s elimination.

While the world rewards Hamas, it ignores greater horrors. 500,000 killed in Syria. 800,000 slaughtered in Rwanda. Thousands in the Congo. Tens of thousands in Yemen. Silence. Gaza? Far fewer casualties, yet it alone is branded “genocide.”

And then comes the insult of “proportionality.” Was October 7 proportional? Hamas raped women, burned families alive, murdered 1,200 Israelis, and kidnapped 250 people (Americans, Bedouins, Druzes, Europeans, Israeli Jews, Thai citizens, etc).

Should Israel respond in kind to stay “even”? If we had, 20 armies would have invaded overnight. Instead, Israel fights with restraint and lawfully (by texting civilians and dropping letters from the air so they can have enough time to escape any danger)— and is accused of genocide. Thus, let’s be clear: October 7th was genocide. Gaza is war. Rwanda, Syria, Congo, Yemen — that was genocide. To call Gaza genocide is pure propaganda.

Meanwhile, the strategic map grows darker. Moscow and Tehran have signed a multi-billion-dollar nuclear deal. Ankara struck its own nuclear pact with Washington. And while the UN Security Council voted to reimpose sanctions on Iran, Russia and China undercut them. Iran grows stronger, Turkey gains prestige, and Israel is told to stand down.

Against this backdrop, Netanyahu’s UN speech today was more than rhetoric. His words — blasted into Gaza by loudspeakers and even pushed to Gazans’ phones — told hostages they are not forgotten, and told Hamas the truth: they alone bear the blame for this war. It was a strike against the Hamas narrative and a reminder to the world that Israel is not the genocider — Hamas is.

Now comes the answer. Annexation of Area C in Judea and Samaria is non-negotiable. Under Oslo, it is already under full Israeli control. It contains Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel, Gush Etzion, Beitar Illit, Modi’in Illit, Route 60, Route 443, and critical IDF posts. Annexation is not expansion — it is recognition of reality.

Yes, the world will rage — Macron, Sánchez, Starmer, Petro, Boric, and their ilk will accuse, boycott, and slander. But annexing Area C strengthens the country in Judea and Samaria, but also in securing the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon, in protecting Druze communities, and in keeping a direct route to strike Iran if necessary.

But, why? Because it tells Syria -with whom we have a serious chance of achieving a good security deal- that negotiations will only continue from a position of strength.

Certainly, the U.S. is the swing factor. One American general admitted it would take “five CIAs” to replace the intelligence Mossad provides. That is our leverage. If Washington wants to fight terrorism globally, it must back our sovereignty. That is why Trump’s statement against annexing “the West Bank” may have been deliberate cover, leaving open the annexation of the part Israel already governs: Area C (60% of the whole territory).

Nevertheless, if the United States does not stay by our side, Israel must harden its resilience and pivot to allies across Asia, Africa, and Latin America who respect power over propaganda.

The world (sadly, particularly the West) may try to isolate us — from sports, concerts, and diplomacy (even though we are fighting a war against an ideology that seeks to destroy the core values of the West). Let them. The people of Israel have survived Pharaohs, inquisitions, pogroms, and Nazis. We will outlast today’s appeasers, liars, and hypocrites too.

Israel speaks the truth. The world sides with jihad. Our answer must be strength, survival, innovation, and resilience. We will prevail.

About the Author
Jose Lev Alvarez is an American-Israeli scholar specializing in Middle Eastern security policy. A multilingual veteran of both the IDF Special Forces and the U.S. Army, he holds a B.S. in Neuroscience with a Minor in Israel Studies from American University, three master’s degrees (international geostrategy, applied economics, and intelligence studies), and a medical degree. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in Intelligence and Global Security in the Washington, D.C. area. In addition to blogging for the Times of Israel, he contributes to the Washington Examiner, is a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum, and regularly provides geopolitical analysis on Latin American television networks.
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