strong>The Question That Haunts Me

I am writing this from a place of deep frustration—and deep hope. For nearly three years, I have watched – we have watched Israel win every military battle while losing the war that actually matters. I have seen our soldiers destroy Hamas tunnels with precision, our intelligence services outmaneuver our enemies, our technology dominate the region. And yet, every night, I watch the world turn against us. Every morning, I see another generation of Western youth convinced that Israel is the villain.

This is not a military problem. This is a **narrative problem.** And we are losing it catastrophically.

In 2019, I wrote an article in these pages titled “Jew Season.” I warned then that a generation was being brainwashed by BDS – the Free Palestine Movement and TikTok to see Israel as a pariah. No one listened. Today, the “Global Intifada” is on our streets. Synagogues are under siege. Jewish students are afraid to wear their identity on campus. The failure isn’t just in the schools—it’s in our leadership’s total lack of strategic communication.

But here’s what keeps me awake: **We know how to fix this. We just haven’t done it.**

How a War of Necessity became perceived as a War of Choice.The Trump Lesson: A Policy Without a Public

In 2018, Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. It was the right policy. Iran had been a terminal threat to Western civilization for 47 years—funding terrorism, developing nuclear weapons, destabilizing the entire Middle East. The policy was sound. The decision was correct.

But Trump made one catastrophic mistake in the recent war against Iran: **He moved on the policy before he won the narrative.**

He didn’t spend the six months prior preparing the American people. He didn’t show them the evidence. He didn’t make the case. He didn’t build the coalition of public opinion that would have made the withdrawal stick. Instead, he........

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