Real Love Builds—Hate Only Burns

The Land, the Love, and the Lie: What It Really Means to Care for a Country

Israel is proud, not just of its history, but of what it has made from the land itself. Forests planted by hand. Deserts turned into fields. Swamps drained. Cities built where there was once only dust. It took a century of vision, sweat, sacrifice, and love. And it took only one thing to destroy it: hate.

Real love protects what it’s given. If you truly love a country, you care for it. You don’t torch its fields, poison its soil, or slaughter its wildlife. You don’t tear down what others have built. Yet that is exactly what we see from those who claim to “love” the land of Israel while attacking it from all sides. Not just Jewish farmers rely on the land, Arab farmers do too. But it’s not Jewish farmers setting fire to olive trees. It’s not Israelis flooding farmlands with sewage. It’s not Israel choosing destruction over development.

Hundreds of trees have been set on fire again, most recently in May 2025. Acres of land scorched. Animals burned alive. Fields lost. And I can’t help but think about the judgment of King Solomon. Two women stood before him, claiming to be the mother of the same child. Solomon called for the child to be cut in half. One woman pleaded, “please give the child to the other, just let it live”. That was how Solomon knew she was the real mother. Because real love builds. Real love protects. Real love sacrifices. It does not destroy.

If you burn a country, you do not love it. You hate it.

That’s what we’ve seen, over and over, from those calling themselves Palestinians. In 2016, arsonists deliberately set off massive fires that destroyed thousands of acres of Israeli land. In May 2025, it happened again. This is not an accident. This is not protest. This is hate, raw and targeted, toward a land that thrives without them.

Look at Gaza. In 2005, Israel gave it up. Fully. Greenhouses, schools, hospitals, all built by Israel, were handed over. Within days, the greenhouses were looted, the infrastructure trashed. The chance to build something lasting, something hopeful, was thrown away. Gaza could have fed itself. It could have grown. Instead, it chose to erase every trace of Jewish achievement. Gaza was handed a future and chose the past.

And what did that choice lead to? A battlefield, ruled by terrorists, where Hamas fights Fatah and each faction murders its own rivals. Tribal chaos disguised as liberation. This is not national unity. It is blood feud.

When Muslims pray at Al Aqsa, they turn their backs to it and face Mecca. That alone should tell you everything: the site is political, not spiritual. For Jews, Jerusalem is our heart. We pray facing it. We rebuilt it from rubble. We plant life into its stones because it means something to us. It is not just land. It is home.

Drive through Israel and look. Jewish towns are clean, green, full of trees and parks. Buildings are finished, streets maintained. In many Arab towns, even inside Israel, you often see a different picture: trash in the streets, houses left half-finished to avoid taxes, car graveyards. This is not systemic oppression. It’s a reflection of priorities. Love takes care of what it has. Hate lets it rot.

The lie that Israel stole a thriving Palestine is one of the greatest frauds of modern history. Before the Zionist movement, the land was desolate. It was Jews who irrigated the deserts, built infrastructure, created jobs, and launched a democratic state. For centuries, Arabs did nothing to develop the land. No state. No capital. No economy. No national movement until it was about opposing Jews. That’s not nationhood. That’s negation.

Political Islam has never built anything lasting in the Middle East. It has brought dictatorship, civil war, poverty, and fear. From Syria to Yemen to Iran, it leaves only ruin. Meanwhile, Israel thrives—scientifically, technologically, culturally. Women vote. Arabs serve in parliament. LGBTQ people live freely. That is not colonialism. That is civilization.

If you say you love a place, but your every action is destruction, you don’t love it. You hate it for succeeding without you. Love wants to see others flourish. Hate wants to see others burn.

Israel is the only light in a region addicted to violence and death. If you love life, you love Israel.