For years, Israelis have lived with a kind of fear that is difficult to fully grasp from a distance. It is the fear of sirens in the middle of the night. The fear of seconds to find shelter. The fear that a rocket, launched with little warning and less mercy, might land on a home, a school, or a street filled with ordinary life. In Israel, this has not been an exception. It has been a pattern. A reality repeated over and over again, shaping generations who grow up knowing that safety is never guaranteed.

This fear has often been explained away or contextualized by those watching from afar. The attacks are acknowledged, but rarely absorbed. They are placed into political frameworks that dilute their human weight. The result is a quiet normalization of something that should never be normal. Living under the threat of rockets is not a detail in a larger story. It is a defining experience.

Now the conversation is shifting. The growing capabilities of Iran have made one thing increasingly clear. The........

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