We are at war. That is the truth, whether the world wants to hear it or not. Israel is in a war for its security, for its legitimacy, for its survival, and increasingly for the moral clarity of the free world itself. This is not a slogan. It is not political theater. It is the reality Israelis have been forced to live with for decades, and it reached an unbearable peak on October 7, when the world witnessed the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

We are in war with Hamas. Hamas is not a resistance movement. Hamas is not a partner for peace. Hamas is an openly genocidal terror organization that has repeatedly declared its goal: the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews. Hamas has promised to repeat October 7 again and again. Those are not hidden intentions. They say it themselves. They glorify slaughter, rape, kidnapping, torture, and the burning alive of families in their homes. They do not seek coexistence. They seek annihilation.

And Hamas is not only a military threat. It is an ideological threat. Hamas wants a strict extremist Islamic rule under Sharia law, a system that leaves no room for other religions, other cultures, dissenting voices, or for women to live in freedom and dignity. It is a movement built on fanaticism, indoctrination, and death worship. This war did not begin in a vacuum. It came after tens of thousands of rockets fired indiscriminately at Israeli civilians, after hundreds of terror attacks over the years, after endless incitement, and after a long campaign of hatred aimed at one goal: the destruction of the Jewish state.

We are also in war with the Palestinians who support Hamas and with the global pro Palestinian movement that empowers them. That may be uncomfortable for some people to hear, but it must be said. Palestinians who support Hamas are not seeking peace. They are........

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