We Are At War

We are at war. That is the truth, whether the world wants to hear it or not. Israel is in a war for its security, for its legitimacy, for its survival, and increasingly for the moral clarity of the free world itself. This is not a slogan. It is not political theater. It is the reality Israelis have been forced to live with for decades, and it reached an unbearable peak on October 7, when the world witnessed the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

We are in war with Hamas. Hamas is not a resistance movement. Hamas is not a partner for peace. Hamas is an openly genocidal terror organization that has repeatedly declared its goal: the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews. Hamas has promised to repeat October 7 again and again. Those are not hidden intentions. They say it themselves. They glorify slaughter, rape, kidnapping, torture, and the burning alive of families in their homes. They do not seek coexistence. They seek annihilation.

And Hamas is not only a military threat. It is an ideological threat. Hamas wants a strict extremist Islamic rule under Sharia law, a system that leaves no room for other religions, other cultures, dissenting voices, or for women to live in freedom and dignity. It is a movement built on fanaticism, indoctrination, and death worship. This war did not begin in a vacuum. It came after tens of thousands of rockets fired indiscriminately at Israeli civilians, after hundreds of terror attacks over the years, after endless incitement, and after a long campaign of hatred aimed at one goal: the destruction of the Jewish state.

We are also in war with the Palestinians who support Hamas and with the global pro Palestinian movement that empowers them. That may be uncomfortable for some people to hear, but it must be said. Palestinians who support Hamas are not seeking peace. They are embracing an ideology of terror and martyrdom, an ideology that glorifies the sacrifice of children and civilians for propaganda and political gain. A society that raises children to hate, to kill, and to die as martyrs is not preparing for peace. It is preparing for endless war.

And the pro Palestinian activists in the West who march, chant, justify, excuse, or sanitize Hamas are not innocent bystanders in this conflict. They are strengthening the Palestinian cause in its most radical and violent form. They are giving legitimacy to terror by turning murderers into freedom fighters and by turning Israeli victims into villains. They repeat slogans without understanding their meaning, or perhaps understanding them all too well. “From the river to the sea” is not a call for peace. It is a call for the erasure of Israel. Anyone who amplifies such a movement becomes complicit in the normalization of terror.

We are in war with Iran. Iran is the biggest financier of terror in the region and one of the most cruel regimes on earth. It funds Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and other proxies whose mission is to surround Israel with fire and blood. Iran openly calls for the destruction of Israel and the United States. It has built an empire of terror from Tehran to Beirut to Gaza to Yemen. And as if that were not enough, Iran has pursued nuclear capabilities that create a direct existential threat to Israel. No country on earth would be expected to sit quietly while a regime that calls for its destruction builds the means to carry it out. Israel is expected to do just that, and when it refuses, it is condemned for defending itself. That is not morality. That is hypocrisy.

We are in war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran’s proxy on Israel’s northern border. Hezbollah is not some local militia. It is a heavily armed terror army embedded in civilian areas, stocked with missiles, trained by Iran, and dedicated to Israel’s destruction. It is an unacceptable and deadly threat. No sovereign country can live with a terror army at its border waiting for the moment to strike.

But the painful truth is that we are also in war with ourselves. Israel has been torn apart internally by endless anti Bibi demonstrations and by people so consumed by their obsession that they seem unable to recognize the danger gathering at the gates. In the months before October 7, hundreds and thousands of people protested every Saturday. The country was fractured. The focus of the security establishment was pulled inward while Hamas watched with delight. Hamas saw weakness, division, distraction, and vulnerability. And while Israelis were fighting each other in the streets and in the media, Hamas was preparing one of the most vicious attacks imaginable. A nation under existential threat cannot afford to be blind to the cost of internal division.

We are also in war with social media and with the machinery of misinformation. Lies about Israel spread faster than facts. Blood libels are recycled in modern digital form. Edited clips, false casualty narratives, staged images, and antisemitic conspiracy theories are pushed across platforms by people who know exactly how to manipulate emotion and outrage. The algorithm rewards rage, not truth. It rewards simplicity, not complexity. It rewards propaganda, not facts.

And this matters far beyond online arguments. If AI is trained on a world flooded with lies about Israel, it will reproduce those lies at scale, turning bias into policy and making Jewish and Zionist voices the first casualties of Big Tech censorship. That is not a distant danger. It is already happening. When lies are repeated often enough, they become accepted as truth by people who never bother to check the facts. And when technology amplifies those lies, they become embedded in education, journalism, politics, and public opinion. That is a battlefield too, and Israel is losing ground there because too many decent people remain silent while propaganda shouts.

Maybe, in the end, we are in war with something even bigger: with the moral collapse of humanity itself. We used to say that people were better than animals. But are they? Where is love? Where is respect? Where is understanding? Where is consensus, basic decency, or even the ability to condemn barbarism without qualification? So much of it seems gone. People celebrate murder if the victims are Israeli. They excuse rape if the perpetrators are terrorists. They call kidnappers heroes and treat Jewish suffering as negotiable. It is a sickness of conscience.

Animals take what they need and live their lives. Humans, with all our intelligence and all our claims of civilization, have built systems of hatred so deep that we justify massacres, excuse evil, and reward fanaticism. Israel stands on the front line against that darkness. This war is not only about territory. It is not only about politics. It is a war between civilization and barbarism, between truth and propaganda, between life and a death cult that celebrates destruction.

Israel did not choose this war. But Israel must win it. Not only for itself, but for every society that still believes freedom is worth defending, terror should never be rewarded, and the Jewish people have the right to live in safety in their ancestral homeland. This is not the time for confusion, cowardice, or false moral equivalence. This is the time to stand with Israel, to speak clearly, and to refuse to let evil hide behind slogans.

Because we are at war. And pretending otherwise will not save anyone.