I’m Israeli. I’m Jewish. I’m a democrat. I’m liberal. I’m Zionist. I’m the former head of the Mossad.

As someone who’s devoted a lifetime to the defense of my country, eventually becoming director of Israel’s pivotal foreign-intelligence agency following a spell as national-security adviser, I take pride in understanding the nature of threats facing us and countering them covertly, powerfully and preemptively around the globe.

Modern wars no longer end in absolute victory or abject surrender, yet the state of Israel must win any conflict it enters.

That single sentence sums up the complexities of the Middle East, a place of contradiction and cyclical confrontation that rarely gives peace a chance.

The Jewish people have no alternative. We have no other homeland, no other refuge but the State of Israel.

When I hear young demonstrators chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” I am compelled to ask: Where exactly do they suggest we go?

Most of them have never set foot in Israel. Many deny the atrocities of Oct. 7.

They ignore the hundreds of thousands of victims, children, women and men who have perished at the hands of those with extremist ideologies who suppress women’s rights, execute men for being gay, use hospitals as their military base and wield children as human shields.

The Jewish community in Israel and globally faces danger not only from totalitarian regimes and their proxies abroad but also within its own neighborhoods.

Antisemitism has surged in an age of disinformation and denial. It has become a global scourge, a brutalizing force that thrives on ignorance and manifests itself in Nazi graffiti, online propaganda and the posturing of........

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