While the world slept, Israel drew a line

At 3:00 a.m., our phones lit up with a sound we all dread. Not the usual siren, not even a red alert. It was the sharp, piercing tone of an emergency push notification. Groggy and half-awake, we struggled to make sense of the message. But then it became clear.

Israel had launched a strike.

Not just any strike. This one targeted Iran. Not just any site. These were IRGC leaders and nuclear facilities, the roots of the cancer that has been spreading toward us for years. The very infrastructure built with one goal: our destruction.

Before that alert, the world looked one way. After, it is entirely different.

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We have crossed into a new reality.

Just as October 7 marked a line no one could uncross, so too does this night. Once again, we are waking up in a world that is no longer the same. Once again, the veil has dropped, and underneath it is a truth we can no longer ignore.

When you fight cancer, you do not simply treat the fever or the cough. You go after the core. You target the cells that are multiplying with hatred. And last night, that is what Israel did.

This is not about revenge. This is not about escalation for its own sake. This is about survival.

Make no mistake. Iran was behind October 7. Iran was behind so many of the missiles from Gaza, from Lebanon, from Yemen. Behind the proxies, the puppets, the coordinated chaos that has left Israeli children sleeping in bomb shelters and families burying loved ones. Iran has been the architect of the shadow war that bled into daylight long ago.

Last night was not an attack on the people of Iran. It was a blow against the regime that has hijacked a nation and turned it into a launchpad for hate.

This regime has invested billions into a singular obsession: the erasure of Israel. It has poisoned minds and trained militias. It has corrupted faith and funded fire. While its own citizens suffer under oppression, it has poured resources into rockets, uranium, and terror.

What Israel did last night was not to destroy Iran. It was to target the weapons built to destroy us.

Yes, we wake up today into a world that feels more uncertain than yesterday. Yes, tensions are higher, and outcomes unknown. But for the first time in a long time, we struck at the root. We did not just respond to a symptom. We faced the illness head-on.

Let there be no confusion. This is not the end. But it is a message. A line in the sand. A declaration that we will not live at the mercy of genocidal dreams. That we will not wait passively for another massacre.

And this is not only our battle.

Iran’s regime does not only hate Israel. It hates the West. It hates freedom. It despises the values that allow people to think differently, worship freely, and speak openly. The same venom that fuels its war against us endangers others too. Europe knows it. The United States knows it. The Arab world, increasingly, knows it.

We do not seek destruction. We seek liberation, for ourselves and even for the people of Iran. Liberation from a leadership that has weaponized religion, perverted justice, and turned an ancient culture into a modern threat.

May today be the first step toward a better tomorrow.

One where Iranian youth can rise without fear. One where Israeli children can sleep through the night without alarms. One where the region is not held hostage by ideologues and militias. One where courage is not measured by retaliation, but by the strength to say enough.

May Hashem protect the IDF. May He guard the people of Israel. And may He extend His hand over all those, near and far, who believe in a future built on life, not death.