While the world lectures Israel on restraint, it continues doing what many others are too afraid—or too compromised—to do: fight the global jihad at its source.
From Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iranian proxies across the region, Israel is confronting a network of Islamist terror that threatens not just Israelis, but the entire Western world.
Western democracies, still reeling from waves of Islamist attacks over the last two decades, have largely outsourced the hardest front-line battles. They condemn terror in theory, but hesitate to act in practice—bound by bureaucracy, political correctness, and appeasement. Israel, by contrast, does not have the luxury of hesitation. Every day it faces enemies that openly call for its destruction.
When Israel targets a Hamas commander, a Hezbollah weapons depot, or an Iranian-backed terror cell in Syria, it’s not just defending itself—it’s sending a message to jihadists everywhere: their ideology will be confronted. Yet instead of support, Israel is too often met with criticism, UN resolutions, and biased media coverage that ignore the reality of modern asymmetric warfare.
If the world is safer today from Islamic terror cells plotting attacks in New York, Paris, or Berlin, it is in part because Israel has disrupted their networks, exposed their tactics, and struck their sponsors. That’s not "aggression." That’s clarity and courage.
Israel does the dirty work. The world reaps the benefits, and too often forgets to say thank you.