Here’s something many people fail to understand: two things can be true at the same time.
The Israeli government’s policies and some of its ministers’ absolutely idiotic statements can seriously damage Israel, and criticism of them is perfectly acceptable.
At the same time, there is a kind of mass cultural psychosis in the West, fueled in part by Russian, Iranian, and Qatari propaganda networks, designed to sow division and destabilize societies by turning Israel-Palestine into an all-consuming obsession.
Israel is being used as a tool to keep people fighting each other.
Because let’s be honest: if people genuinely cared about Palestinians, human rights, and civilian suffering, they’d care about those things everywhere.
Look at Gillian Anderson, one of the few public figures consistently speaking about the hundreds of thousands killed in Sudan, a conflict that dwarfs the Gaza war.
The replies? “What about Palestine?” “Why aren’t you talking about Palestine?”
At some point, you have to admit that a lot of this isn’t about human rights. It’s about following the latest social-media trend.
Anyone who thinks it’s all Israel’s fault, or that it’s all simply hatred of Israel, is being intellectually dishonest.
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Yesterday, a film accusing Israel of genocide premiered.
It’s a horrific blood libel against our sons and daughters. What makes it especially painful and infuriating is that this lie comes from Israeli filmmakers and is now being spread around the world.
Let’s get the facts straight:
On October 7th, Hamas invaded Israel to murder Jews. Hamas terrorists slaughtered children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children. They burned homes, raped women, and kidnapped babies, children and elderly people.
Then Hamas fled back to Gaza and deliberately hid behind its own civilians, using them as human shields in homes, schools, and hospitals.
And when Israel fights back, and civilians are tragically killed in this terrible war, Israel is accused of “genocide.”
There is no magic button that can destroy Hamas, or any terrorist organization hiding behind civilians, without harming a single civilian. It simply does not exist.
In interviews with the international media, I always ask: “What would you do?”
They never have an answer.
If Israel wanted to hurt the people of Gaza, we would not send our sons and daughters to fight house to house, through alleyways and tunnels, at the terrible cost of our own soldiers being killed and wounded.
We would not warn civilians before strikes and evacuate them from combat zones.
We would not help vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza against polio.
The war in Gaza is terrible. The death of every child is a tragedy.
But a terrible war is not genocide.
Even now, Hamas doesn’t regret October 7th. It’s rearming and waiting for another opportunity to carry out a massacre.
The people standing between us and that next massacre are our soldiers and reservists. Our sons and daughters who put their lives at risk so that we can live here safely.
I love them.
I am proud of them.
And I am deeply grateful to them.
To portray them as perpetrators of “genocide” is not courageous art.
It is a cowardly blood libel.
And I will not remain silent.
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To the British people, let me be clear: we in Israel love you. And we are not remotely rattled by sanctions from your Foreign Secretary, whose name escapes me.
You have a weak left-wing government for now. But we have faith in our friends among the British public, those who still prize common sense.
Better days will come. We will stand together against the globalists and Islamists who seek to impose Sharia law on you.
And those days are coming soon. 🇮🇱🇬🇧
Remember when Europe recognized a Palestinian state, and it expedited the end of the war, the return of the hostages, and the emergence of a moderate Palestinian leadership? Neither do I. Yet the lesson the new British foreign secretary Ed Miliband took from that diplomatic dud was that moderation and a future for peace were only ever one “comprehensive reset” in relations with Israel away—with impending sanctions on settlements in Judea and Samaria among its first instalments.
The ostensible justification is Israeli construction in the E1 corridor, connecting Jerusalem to Ma’ale Adumim and bisecting a Palestinian entity in the process. Miliband declared he would “not acquiesce in the destruction of the two-state solution.”
He chose to discuss the new policy with, of all people, the Emir of Qatar—one would think he might have spared the British taxpayer international charges, given how many jihadists and terror-supporters he can call locally.
They could, of course, address the problem of radicalization at home. If they were truly internationally inclined, they might begin by ensuring they can actually deploy a force when a war breaks out, rather than it taking a week and furious negotiations for their dock to outfit a single ship. They might consider answering Argentina, which spent this week threatening British sovereignty over the Falklands—I would suggest starting by not giving away their military base at Diego Garcia for no reason in particular. But this is the same party whose last defense secretary, John Healey, resigned due to a lack of seriousness in funding the military—the true bone and sinew of geopolitics.
Easier, always, than confronting a problem foreign or domestic is to blame the Jews—because naturally it is not the failure of British integration, but Israel’s actions in Gaza, that have clogged their streets and defaced their national monuments. After all, if not for the war, the UAE might still be willing to send its students to British universities without fear of their being radicalized by the Muslim Brotherhood.
But the true absurdity of the policy is that the two-state solution is not dying because of a 12-kilometre stretch of land outside Jerusalem. Its death was a suicide—perpetrated by a Palestinian Authority that time after time eschewed moderation and reform, enabled by an international community that entertained and sponsored its endless incitement. Were two states ever to be revived, it would not be by holding territory in trust in the hope that Palestinians will grow moderate enough to manage it, but by imposing consequences for their intransigence. I should think it obvious that sanctioning literal terror sponsors and celebrators would do significantly more for peace than sanctioning Jewish residents of East Jerusalem. Then again, Keir Starmer’s insistence when recognizing Palestine that it was “not a reward for Hamas” attests to the fact that British policy no longer understands the obvious.
Yet it is sadly predictable. If Israel could forget the lessons of the Yom Kippur War before October 7, it is only natural that the British, after so much longer, have forgotten the consequences of appeasement.
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