Israel is Always Wrong According the World

Israel Cannot Win the Narrative War, No Matter What It Does

There is a pattern so obvious that it should no longer be ignored, yet it continues to define how Israel is judged. Whatever choice Israel makes, it is condemned. Not sometimes. Not occasionally. Always.

A month into direct conflict with Iran, Israel remains on high alert. This is not a theoretical threat. Iran has openly declared for years that its goal is the destruction of Israel. Not negotiation. Not coexistence. Elimination. And unlike Israel’s targeted strikes on military infrastructure, Iran’s response does not distinguish between soldier and civilian. Its use of indiscriminate weapons makes one thing clear: everyone is a target.

Men, women, the elderly, babies. Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Arabs, so called Palestinians. Iran does not differentiate. The objective is terror, pure and simple.

Faced with that reality, Israel does something that should be uncontroversial. It protects its citizens. All of them. That includes restricting gatherings during wartime. Limiting crowds to reduce the risk of mass casualties is not oppression. It is basic responsibility.

Yet when Israel imposed limits on gatherings,........

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