Enough Lies Israel Will Not Apologize

Ask the average person why there is war in the Middle East and you will hear the same reflex answer. Israel is to blame. Israel is the aggressor. Israel started it. Say instead that Israel is a country fed up with decades of relentless terror and people look at you as if you just repeated propaganda. That reaction is not based on knowledge. It is based on conditioning. And it collapses the moment facts enter the room.

Since 1980 there have been more than 40,000 non suicide terror attacks against Jews. That number does not even include roughly 150 to 200 suicide bombings since the late 1980s. It does not include more than 40,000 rockets fired indiscriminately from Gaza into Israeli cities since 2001. These are not isolated incidents. This is a sustained campaign of violence targeting civilians for one reason only. They are Jews living in their own country.

And still Israel is called the aggressor.

Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally. It dismantled settlements. It handed over land in the hope of peace. What followed was not coexistence but slaughter. Terror groups took control and turned Gaza into a launchpad for attacks. To claim this was self defense is not just wrong. It is a deliberate twisting of reality that excuses the murder of civilians.

Now Israel fights........

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