Stimuli and Response: The media’s chain reaction and leader’s chain of blame

כ"ד באייר, תשפ"ה

May 22, 2025

By Ashrei Ima Sari

One of the fundamental teachings in Psychology is the idea of our cognitive reactivity. In comes the stimuli, the input, the information, and out comes the response, the outcome, our behaviour.

Cognitive maturity and advanced meditation practices identify the space-time between the stimuli and the response, the input and the output, as the space-time factor that we need to practice on expanding.

Children have a very small space-time response-ability. Input comes in and they react immediately. The marshmallow experiment is the most famous example of children’s ability to stretch this space-time response-ability. The more practiced we are in waiting before we respond to a stimulus, the more mature, thoughtful and accurate we can be in how we choose to respond to life. 

A toddler responds immediately. This response does not require any thinking power, as the child acts out on their immediate need to end any cognitive tension that was created by the stimuli, the input, the information. 

Cognitive tension means experiencing negative emotions and negative thoughts. The cognitive tension we experience when needing to extend our ability to wait before we act can be emotionally difficult, and it can be cognitively painful. 

Both emotional and cognitive outcomes usually breed anger and frustration. The lack of ability to wait as a wave of negative emotions and thoughts washes over us, implies we have a lack of ability to extend our space-time response-ability.  

The media’s lack of ability to fact check their reports, and rush to be the first ones to report a “breaking news story” is just one example of this lack of response-ability in our modern day and western world. 

This is what led the media all across the world to report false stories about how many innocent dead were really killed in Gaza. Today, there is ample proof that the numbers of dead in Gaza were vastly altered just to have the world in uproar against Israel. The media, with a short space-time response-ability was only too happy to report on the lies brought in from Gaza. False reporting such as the casualty numbers, creates damage that many times can not be undone later on.  

The world’s media, alongside the many political leaders who suffer from the same problem, have created a new chain reaction: The chain of blame. This chain of blame means that there should be minimal time passing between when they hear a story about a hurt Gazan to when the blame of Israel should go into effect. 

The world media and world leaders have perfected the chain of blame. In contradiction to the direction of maturity and better response-ability, trying to find the way to lengthen the space-time between the input (the new story) and the output (their blame reaction towards Israel), the media perfected the ability to respond in the greatest possible speed; leading them to behave as immaturely as toddlers do. Having minimal  response-ability as all they are doing is spitting out unprocessed information, provided to them by those who produce lies as a strategy of war, terror and antisemitism. 

Like a pavlovian dog, the terrorists’ propaganda has conditioned the world to drill hate and anger towards Israel with every heart breaking story that comes out of Gaza. The world's media and leaders appear to be drooling over who can comment the fastest and who would be the first one to condemn Israel for the horrible images we see on the news. 

Any tactic that is being played out globally was first tested and ran in Israel before this global pavlovian media party began. 

I happen to be lucky enough to live in one of the villages that had these lie-tactic tested on. In a local Israeli left-wing newspaper, it was reported that the guard in our community attacked an innocent palestinian. This was an easy lie for the entire country to fall for, as the report had a photo showing the attacking guard pinning down the innocent palestinian.  

This was a cropped photo. The original photo showed the community guard pinning down an attacker, holding a knife in his hand. This was no innocent Palestinian -- this guard stopped a stabbing attempt. This guard saved lives. Yet the image was so easily altered to match the needed narrative of the greater Palestinian cause -- to support the story that the Palestenians are the victims and not the attackers. 

Without this photo, it would have been much harder to sell the story that we are angry, mean settlers, actively attacking the Palestenains around us. And so, the people in our village had to start defending themselves in the media, much like Israel is now needing to do across the world. 

This is just one example out of many. I bring this specific example up because I know for a fact it is true -- it happened in my hometown, to my neighbours. Living in a state in which the entire country and world is lying about your intentions and your deeds is something that many “settlers” experienced for many years. I lived this experience for over 30 years. And now, it is happening to -- all around the world. 

Let us examine this chain of stimuli and response as we see it play out in the current conditions in Gaza and over the last 18 months.

The speed of reporting today, from Gaza to the brainwashing news reporters, allows for no pause. There is no time to think and investigate the truth of any claims. 

The ideas of hate, anger and blame are planted in people’s minds with an extraordinary lack of reporter responsibility, and thus, the media itself becomes the right hand of the terror organisations.

As the right hand of such organisations, each and every media outlet that spreads these terrorists lies is fully responsible for the antisemitism and hate spreading around the world. They are directly responsible for any damage and life lost. I am sure it is only a matter of time before these media outlets will suffer massive lawsuits, which they will lose. 

Today, the idea that news must be reported with speed trumps over the need to think through what it is we are reporting.

 The need to be the news channel that did not miss reporting a story means that journalists and reporters have lost their credibility - not because I say so, but because in actuality, what they believe is a report of the whole story “as it unfolds” provides a story that, no matter how hard they try, lacks the depths and the breath of the perspective needed to understand what it is they are reporting about. 

I can report that a person was arrested and taken brutally into custody before knowing the whole story. Or I can fact check and see how this person that was arrested was trying to kill others, and given the weapon he was holding and the danger he was to everyone around him, there was no other way to arrest him, other than to pin him brutally to the ground and secure the area. In such a case, the partial story is not just partial -- it propagates a lie and creates a channel of hate and anger directed towards the ones who are doing the right thing. 

We must see through the conditions that the Arab league and the terror organizations have created for the west to see. 

They understand the westerner’s desire to protect the innocent, so they provide the portion of the images and videos that appeal to the westerner’s need, while not sharing all the parts that show the terror and abuse they inflicted on themselves and on others. They do not share that which caused them to get to this situation to start with. They are happy to provide exactly what it is the west media so desires to report and “protect.” While in their own channels, there are different stories being told. They cry in pain and for help in the west, and preach for hate and death on their media. 

To clarify, I have no issue with Palestinians, nor do I think that they ‘deserve’ to suffer as they are suffering now. They are our neighbors, our siblings, we share the same father; Abraham. We share very similar cultures, foods, lifestyles -- the Jewish Palestanians and the Arab Palestinians have much more in common than the western world has with the Arab world. 

Being against the extreme Muslim approach, being against radical Islam,being against terrorism, being against abusive behavior within social and government systems -- these have nothing to do with being against Muslims or Palestinians. I am equally against radical Jewish groups and radical Christians groups, or any radical and violent group -- it is the radical abusive tendencies that must be put to an end. 

The problem of the western world is that without recognizing that there are cultural differences in the world, we fall prey to the abusive and manipulative  nature of tyrannic and terrorist minded cultures and organizations. Up to now, it has been easier to turn a blind eye or not care about truly understanding the whole story. We have been turning a blind eye to this manipulative and abusive nature of behaviour towards Israel for many decades; from personal, to our media, to our governments, the narrative that Israel is the one that is not wanting peace and that is causing problems to the Palestinians is simply a lie, and it must end now.  

Those who were meant to lead us and those who claim to be “the watchdogs” of our societies, have all fallen under the spell of manipulations and lies they were fed. As much as you would like to hate me for saying this, there is no other truth -- the western governments and the western media have failed us. The western politicians and the western reporters have failed us. 

Instead of standing up against the manipulators and the bullies, those who were meant to direct our countries and keep watch over what was happening were played as fools and were only too eager to join in on this abusive tendency to report their judgments before knowing the truth. They were eager to bully into silence those who try to speak up, and to simply abusively “cancel” those who do not fall in line with the latest cause everyone is trying to stand behind. 

In Florida as in Europe, there are towns and entire areas that have already started establishing their own sharia laws, bullying all those who live in the area. Yet we do not hear of the war of the European countries against these extreme groups.  

The funds brought into the USA universities, fueling radical movements and support for mass murdering of Jews, bullying Jewish students all across North America, is only the tip of the iceberg of the infiltration of extreme Islam movements into the western world. This is evident in the new report France just conducted about these radical movements taking over cultural and religious facilities, organisations and groups within France. 

While everyone is focused on the challenges that Israel is trying to face; while Israel is facing its existential threat as ethically as possible, the rest of the western world is blind to the infiltration of radicalized groups growing in their own countries. As they are comfortably distracted by the happenings in Gaza, the same forces of terror are trying to take over the entire western civilization.  

A country that neglects to do something about the growing extreme Islamic groups in it, is only setting itself up to becoming the next Gaza. 

The people of Gaza did not used to be so radical. Over time, they were radicalized. Their Government is stealing their resources and directing it to establish a war with Israel while getting themselves rich along the way. All Palestinian leaders have millions of aid money while their own people suffer, and conveniently, they use the western media to direct the blame towards Israel. Thus, the stimuli-response game of blaming Israel continues. 

Keeping the people of Gaza in poverty is part of the strengths of such a regime. It fuels the anger that leads the people to become even more radical, and so, the cycle deepens: Keep the people poor and suffering, while teaching them hate and lies about the Jewish people. Keep the people suffering and teach them to direct all their hate and frustration towards the Jews. 

It worked with “the protocols of Zion,” it worked for Hitler, it is working now for the terrorist leaders as well. It works within Gaza, and it is working within the western countries as well -- and the western media is the one spreading these blood-liables; lies aimed to produce hate towards the Jewish people across the world. 

Teaching a culture of hate and murder through the western media and through financing the Palestinian groups on university campuses has become a strategic move that the western world did not see coming. When killing a Jew and any westerner is considered the path to reach heaven, we should ask ourselves, do we really want to help spread this type of information? Is this the type of mentality we want the media and the west to foster and grow?  

Even guard dogs can be fed poisoned meat in order to break into a house. Do not think that you, the media and the leaders of the western world are immune to these manipulative and poisonous lies. 

Instead of criticizing Israel on everything they do, without allowing for any time to pass between the stimulus and your response, consider the fact that Israel has been fighting this middle eastern mindset even before it was established. 

Jews were fighting these types of abusive patterns before any current country existed. We've been facing these lies for over 2000 years, when even the name of our land was changed from Israel to Palestinian only to try and break the unbreakable bond the Jewish people have with the land of Israel. 

For the west, this is a new evil that has been rising while we were all distracted with social media, cellphones, reality shows and other entertainment. For the Jews, this is the same old story playing on repeat: they came to kill us, they lost, and now we celebrate our freedom from the hands of their evil. 

Instead of trying to tell Israel and the Jewish people how to run their country and how to fight their fight, how about trying to understand how Israel got into this situation to start with, and use it as a cautionary tale -- a warning to the entire western world. 

Israel is the most eastern post of the west. Nestled in the crossing between the western civilization and the eastern countries. This is a people that have had to master the ability to walk the line between the western culture and middle eastern culture. These are people who had to learn to balance the values of the western civilization with the values of the Middle East. This was not an easy process. 

Now, the western world finds itself washed over by those who moved from the Middle East and settled in their countries. Some bring with them not the desire to live peacefully in our culture, but they bring their own world, culture and their own shariah law into our lands. 

I am not trying to spread fear, I am trying to help you open your eyes. The forces that wish to bring in radical Islam are serious and are seriously dangerous. 

Iran was not always as it is now. Iran and Israel had a good relationship before this extreme leader came into power and before this extreme Iranian regime set in motion decades of working towards eliminating Israel off the map. This evil does not end there, with the desire to see Israel and all Jews dead. Their evil is directed towards their own Iranian people who are suffering the most from this regime of darkness. 

Evil forces can find their way into power, and once they do, it is very difficult to take them down. It is impossible to take them down without a war. They seek power and control over all others, and once they have it, they will do anything they can to not let that power and control go. 

If the western world, its leaders and the UN want to keep working to eliminate aggressive conflicts around the world, they must understand -- this is not the time to condemn Israel. It is the time for each country to have a deep search and reflection into the extreme Islam movements in their land. Examine the role of the media in our countries. Understand who is benefiting from pushing forward the narrative that the extreme Islamic terrorist movement wishes to push forward. 

Not reflecting on our own state of affairs now, only leaves us open to a growing dangerous extreme movement in our own countries. One of this evil force’s  desired goals is to ensure our politicians and media stay focused on stopping Israel. They do not care about the Gazan people. They will show us what will move us to become upset with the idea of this war not stopping. They will try to manipulate our emotional strings, causing us to neglect the reality of the situation -- that they are the ones who must be stopped, not Israel. 

Their goals are very clear and were stated many times: they wish to have a cease fire only to rebuild, recruit more innocent Gazans into the terror ranks and keep attacking Israel with as many terror attacks and massacres and rockets as they possibly can. They said it, not Israel.

No western country would stand idle as their next door neighbor executed the oct. 7th massacre, had celebrated it, and already announced they want to repeat that blood-thirsty type of day. 

When a heart surgeon completes his surgery and desires to repeat that action, it is in order to save lives. When Hamas wishes to slaughter Jews and Israelis, it is for the delight they will believe they will receive in this life or the next. A surgeon’s life mission is to help and save. The terrorist’s life mission is to terrorize and kill. 

If we would take a photo of a heart surgeon holding a knife over someone’s open heart surgery, while cropping and photoshopping all medical context around it, we could easily conclude that this is no surgent at all, this is a psychopath dissecting a human body for his own sadistic pleasure. This is what Hamas and its supporting media is doing with information and images coming out of Gaza. 

Truth can be easily manipulated with today's tools. Twisting the reality of a life saving surgeon into a blood-thirsty psychopath is something that can be achieved in a matter of minutes, especially when the entire western media is so willing to immediately report on this news flash without taking the time to examine the validity of this statement. 

With our modern society being more and more primed to have everything delivered to them right this second, from our packages to our media -- our minds have shortened their ability to wait. The cognitive space-time of our response-ability has not grown, it has been shrinking. 

We, in the western world, seem to have lost our ability to withstand the cognitive pain of waiting. We cannot wait in line, we cannot wait for our meal to be slowly prepared, we cannot wait for the facts to be checked before they are reported. We are addicted to getting all the information as fast as we can, and even worse, many are addicted to speaking their minds before they even understand what it is they are speaking about. We have become a western society that is primed to spread lies -- a society where manipulators, narcissists, abusers and haters thrive. 

Along with the loss of our ability to wait, cognitively and behaviorally, we have lost our ability to withstand “tough love.” We think that our immediate cry to help people in Gaza is what will stop their pain, when it is the longer and more torturous route that will bring them to the destination they and we all want for them. 

What Israel wants for the people of Gaza and the Arab-Palestenians is not different from what the western world wants for them; to live in peace. However, this is not necessarily what they themselves want. Jumping to conclusions through the westerners perspective, we neglect to see the damage our own behaviour has on the very victims we wish to help.

Parents that coddle their children are parents that are overprotective. In the simplest explanation for this discussion, coddling parents are those who bubble wrap their children and do not let their children suffer the consequences of their own actions. 

Not allowing our children to experience the natural consequences of their own actions means they are bound to repeat making the same mistake over and over in their life. With every repetition, as they mature, the cost of their mistakes will be bigger, until one day, the parents can no longer protect their child from the consequences of their actions, and all of the sudden, their child is an adult who does not know right from wrong. An adult who has no idea how to cope with life. An adult that believes he can do whatever he wishes to do because there are no real consequences for his bad behaviour -- someone always swoops in to save him. 

The west and the UN have been the over coddling parents of the Arab-Palestenian people. People that have refused to establish their own land, have opened war against Israel multiple times, and have made it their goal to eliminate Israel and kill all the Jews and Israelis no matter where they are in the world. Yet the UN and the western countries were always there to aid. And so, the extreme horrid behaviour continued until they reached a breaking point -- when reality caught up with them. Now, they must suffer the full weight of the consequences of their own actions. Help them out now, instead of helping Israel clean up this mess, and one thing is guaranteed, this evil and darkness will keep spreading all over the west. 

The damage of not letting someone suffer the consequences of their own choices and actions has ripples effects on all who are around. Now, the world is suffering the ripples effects of over-coddling the so-called “Palestinian People” and believing all the lies they have been weaving since the 1940s. 

In the wake of WWII it was easy to assume that the Jews were doing something wrong. The Jews were the victims of the Holocaust. Six million Jews were slaughtered in the most abusive ways. Those who survived, came out scared in ways that the rest of humanity still does not understand. The mass movement of Jews around the world, homeless and searching for new places to settle in, made many around the world uncomfortable. And the lie that they suddenly arrived out of nowhere to colonize Israel started. 

But Jews were living in Israel all along, for over 2000 years there has always been Jewish presence in Israel, regardless of which colonizing power tried to take over the tiny Israeli piece of land. 

When Israelis and Jews say “never again” we say it because we grew up in homes of traumatised people, who have experienced the holocaust and pogroms around the globe. We know what it is that we are fighting against. We are hypervigilant and know how to identify forces of evil when they lift their heads. 

When such victims survive, they have no choice but to find a way and rebuild their life. That is what we did in Israel. And we flourished. 

We are a country that shines with peace, with love, with aiding others in need. Yet when our enemies and the forces of evil come for us again, we have no choice but to harden our hearts to survive. We fight the fights we must, because we must save the lives of those who need to be protected. 

In a world filled with lies, and media and social platforms that are all about who will tweet or broadcast first, it is increasingly easy to blame the victim. After all, it is the base of any abusive relationship, where the abuser gaslights and manipulates reality to make sure that everyone believes it is the victim that is at fault, not them. 

Do not fall for these lies. Do not be manipulated any longer. Do not blame the victim. Ask the victim -- how can we help you? Ask Israelis and the Jewish communities -- how can we help you?

Israel and the Jewsh people know that to build a future, we must know our history. To achieve justice, we must know what wrongdoing is. To become a peaceful society, we must understand what war is and where its roots are stemming from. To avoid falling, we must know where the pitfalls are. To end the situation in Gaza, we must understand what are the roots that caused the current state of affairs. 

We can keep taking pain killers for a pain in our tooth, or we can finally do the needed root canal to remove the source of pain from the month. We can keep having cease fires and temporary solutions, or we can finally do the hard work and remove terror from the entire region of Gaza, the West Bank and the entire Middle East. 

Any solution or demand on the Israeli government that comes without this full understanding, is as if placing a bandaid to finish an open heart surgery. Without stitching and healing all the arteries the patient will die, a band aid will do nothing for the healing and recovery of this patient. 

Short term pain alleviation only causes more pain in the long run. Stopping the process in Gaza before removing the root of the evil amongst the innocent civilians, will only cause them and Israel more pain and more wars in the long run. 

Not every person can handle the blood and rawness of an open heart surgery. Not every person can handle a root canal procedure. Not every person can handle the necessity of brutality of war when fighting against terrorism and manipulative extreme Muslim groups. 

If you cannot handle it, look away. This includes the media -- if you do not know how to balance your stories with the true history of the entire region and the manipulative lies brought forth by the Arab league nations and all their supporters since the 1940s, stop airing anything that has to do with this conflict. If you can not bring the full story, at least stop spreading the lies that only breed more hate and antisemitism around the globe. 

Spreading half truths, misinformation, fabricated videos and photoshopped and cropped images are all forms of lies, even if at their core they stem from true realities. They are manipulations and they breed hate which leads to actual killing of Jews and Israelis, as we just saw in Washington D.C. 

It is not your job as journalists to manipulate the entire western world. It is not your job as journalists to spread lies just because people want to hear them. Politicians, it is not your job to allow lies and hate to spread just so you can be re-elected. 

It is your job to inform people, to educate them on how to think through complicated and contradicting messages. The journalists of the west, like CNN, BBC, CBC, and more -- you have blood on your hands. Your willingness to keep being a puppet in the hands of the terror propagandists is only causing more damage, as they feel they have someone that cares for their sinister tactics. 

You are not helping. As well intentioned as you might be -- you are bringing darkness and evil into this world, and you are allowing it to spread across the planet and infiltrate your very countries and your own homes. 

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Yet I would like to correct this: The road to evil is paved with a lack of responsibility. A lack of response-ability; 

A lack of responsibility for checking facts before publishing creates anger and hate where none should be. This lack of responsibility leads to a manipulative and double standard where the chain of reaction is: Input comes in from the abusive terror organisation, then media and politicians are eager to respond as fast and irresponsibly. This creates the path that leads peace loving people directly to becoming the abusive oppressor. The good news is that you can stop it. 

You can change the lack of owning up to the responsibility. You can stop making things worse. Not owning up to your responsibility in bringing chaos into our world -- and it is the road that turns good people and innocent people into puppets in the hands of evil. 

Become responsible for your actions, for your posts, for your words. Refuse to play this chain reaction game of minimal space-time response-ability. 

At the very least, if you care about these issues, educate yourselves. On the other side of this conflict, when it is all over, it will be very clear who was wrong and who was right. 

It will be Israel that is right, of this there is no doubt.  

All those who fell for the endless lies and propaganda of Hamas will suffer in very practical and spiritual ways, as they will have to answer to themselves and to the world, on why exactly they chose to keep spreading propaganda of lies and hate. 

Israel is a rising power of peace in the Middle East and the entire world, not because we are turning a blind eye to what is happening in Gaza -- it is because we are the only ones in the world who are doing the true and deep hard work needed to create the conditions for lasting peace in the region. 

Israel is the only one in the world who is not only looking at what is happening but is also seeing exactly what is happening in Gaza and around the world. 

The Bible describes Moses’s moment of encounter with the Truth of G-d as a moment when he looked twice. Moses had seen the burning bush, but it was not enough, he had to really look at it again to be able to start understanding that there was more than meets the eye. Moses had to look past the basic appearance of the mirage and see that things are not as they appear.

In Gaza, the same principle holds: Israel, like Moses, is the one that is not afraid to look at what is truly happening in Gaza. Israel is the one that is leading the world in the fight against evil tyrant terrorist powers of extreme Islam. The world media and the world leaders, instead of helping, are trying to put an end to a fight we never wanted to be in. 

We never wanted this war. We still do not want this war. It was forced upon us -- and no matter how bad things appear to be -- we will keep on doing this root canal process and cleanse the Middle East from these villanouse powers -- not because we want war, but because we want peace -- not just for us, but for the entire Middle East. 

Golda Meir said that we fight as we do specifically because we have nowhere else to go. We simply have no choice. It was true in the 1940s, it was true in the 1960s, in the 1970s, and it is true today. 

We fight not from hate and anger and vengeance as the other side would like the world to believe -- that is what they are fighting for. We fight for life. We fight for love. We fight for peace. We fight for all the people of the Middle East. If you, your leadership and your media raptors do not understand this, if you refuse to properly educate yourself on the matter, do a favor for the sake of peace in the Middle East and the entire world -- and stay out of our business.

Reporting and crying over the Natzies that were being bombed in order to ellimenate the Natzi regime would have made no sense, just as reporting and crying for the outcome of this tyrant evil terrorist power makes no sense. All lives lost at war are tragic -- yet blaming Israel for what is happening in Gaza, is like blaming the Jews for what Hitler and the Natzis did to them. 

The world can condemn, be angry, and sit in emotional pain as they see manipulated photos and as they worry for the true pain of the Gazan civilians are experiencing. Yet, instead of helping Israel end this mess as smoothly and easily as possible, by pressuring Egypt to create a temporary town for the Gazan people in Saini, while Israel deals with this massive terrorist organization, the world cries out to allow for the Gazan people to remain hostages in their own region. 

Gaza was a part of Egypt before Egypt refused to take back that strip of land in the peace agreements with Israel. Israel has been and still is the one providing them water and electricity which they have failed to create for themselves. 

Israel was the only one that was trying to help the Gazan people figure out a better future for themselves -- it was the Gazan people and the terror organizations that have been working to create the chaos we now see unfolding. 

Stopping the process of clearing Gaza from Hamas and all the terror organizations will only leave the people of Gaza as hostages in the hands of a terror government which they elected themselves. This is their own doing. We cannot keep coddling them. There are real consequences for electing and supporting a terror group to run your life. They are now feeling the pain of their own choices. Experiencing this pain is the only hope they have to finally understand that they cannot afford electing and supporting another terror organisation to run their life. It is a hard lesson to learn, but it is one they brought onto themselves. 

This is not a fight about land. This is a fight about the idea that Jews have the right to live, in Israel, or anywhere on earth. It is an ideology. It is a clash of beliefs. A belief in the sanctity of life vs the belief in the sanctity of killing Jews and all who are non-Muslims. 

The Middle East situation is not complicated to understand -- the Arab nations did not want the Jewish people to establish their own country, and wanted all of them dead and to take over their land. Jews fought hard to be able to return to their indigenous lands. They fought against the British Empire, they fought against endless attacks from the Arab villages prior to the establishment of Israel, and once Israel was established, Israel fought against all the Arab nations who came together to try and eliminate Israel entirely.

In Gaza, and all Hamas supporters, have not let go of this vision -- of taking over the entire land of Israel, not because they need the land, but because the Jews should not be there. When chanting “from the river to the sea Palestain will be free” they do not mean freedom from colonial forces, they mean free from Jews and anyone else who supports the tiny Israeli country. They mean free to run a tyrant terror sharia law country of evil forces where no one will have the right to be free. 

Unfortunately, the west loves to fight for the cause of freedom, even when they do not understand what freedom it is they are fighting for. Fighting for the freedom to kill others is not the same as fighting for the freedom to live in peace. 

So if it becomes too hard for you to witness the hardships of fighting for true freedom, as the western worlds invisions it, look away. War is not easy. Most of us are not built to withstand the hardships of war and the horrors that come out of it. No one is making you look. 

If you choose to look and make this your cause -- look twice. Do not be satisfied with believing every news report and every painful image that comes out of Gaza. They have a well oiled propaganda and media manipulation machine, where most, if not all, reports are manipulated by the terrorist organization which is the one reeking havoc on the Gazan’s, stealing their aid only to force them into submission so they join the terror fighting ranks. 

We do not wish to inflict suffering on those who are innocent, we just want to live in safety. We just want our people back. The people they have stolen from their beds, from the Nova peace and nature festival. Why does the world not cry out for them? 

Please, let Israel do the hard and horrible work of cleansing the Middle East from these powers of evil -- we do not do this because we want to, we do it because there is no other way. There is no other choice. 

For over 70 years we have been trying every other possibility -- all western world solutions only made things worse. When all that our enemy understands is hate, aggression, and death is their ultimate prize for killing the Jews and Israelis, when all they understand is the hand of force and the punishing pain of war -- we are left with no other choice but to participate in their sick war games -- and so we fight, not for death as they do, we fight for peace. 

We fight for the type of peace that does not only appear to be peaceful, but for true and lasting peace that will have the entire region live as the brothers and sisters we all are. 

Enough with telling Israel how to battle the forces that you do not even recognize their existence. Educate yourself first. Look again and see what it is you are missing from the bigger picture. 

From where I stand, the entire western world, its media and its leaders are not seeing the truth -- you are blinded by the lack of ability to look twice, as Moses did. “There can be miracles when you believe, though hope is frail, it's hard to kill” and Israel’s hope for true and lasting peace in the Middle East, with its neighbouring Arab nations, has never died. 

We believe in peace. We want peace. We also want the end of being terrorized by the Arab League and the plans to eliminate Israel, which they have put into action so many years ago and utilized the UN to aid them in abusing Israel. They have still failed to correct their course on the matter. 

Israel is not searching to sweep our problems under the rug --  we face the issues head on so we can correct the damage that was done to our country and our people over so many years. We are a people of builders and innovators. We are the makers of dreams. We dream of lasting peace, not of wars. Do not confuse us with the other side’s visions of chaos. 

They cry for water, when it was their elected terrorist government that used all the supplies sent to create an independent water system, to create rockets which they are still now firing at Israel.

They cry for doctors, when it was their own elected terrorist government that used hospitals as army bases, putting weapons under them and firing missiles from their parking lots, hurting their own people when they misfire (and blaming Israel), and putting their own sick people at risk. 

They cry for medical aid when Israel took so many Gazan civilans in for medical treatment, some of them publicly boasted about how they will recover from the treatment Israel offered them and then return as suicide boomers. The community that helped them receive these medical treatment in Israel was one of the communities that were so brutally slaughtered on Oct. 7th. 

It is their own towns that have shooting in them, not only to kill one another or any Jew or tourist that got lost and accidentally went into their town, it is their gun shots in wedding celebrations that kill their own people. 

In a culture that idealizes weapons and uses them even in their own weddings is not a culture that teaches peace. When a happy kindergarten photo must include children dressed as terrorists, holding guns and yelling for the death of Jewish people -- who exactly is it we are protecting? 

When someone makes it very clear that they are coming to kill you, do you roll over and let them kill you, or do you fight and defend your life? 

It is easy for Hamas, Iran and the entire islamic terror world to fool the western world, because it is so unsafe to enter their countries and areas, that almost no one will do so. 

On the rare occasions that someone is invited, a show is put on, showing the visitor what they wish them to see. When no westerner reporters and no leader can go into such terror hubs due to the fear they will be taken as hostage or lynched, we are dependent on the stories these same terror organizations provide us. 

Those who choose to believe the stories of an organization that thrives on abuse, manipulation and lies are simply people who have forgotten how to activate their own minds. Believing what we are told because it allows for less cognitive effort is lazy and unprofessional journalism and political work. 

No thinking is necessary when we can simply believe a well told lie. This is irresponsible. A western country, western media, western society that has decided to offload the need to think and instead adopted the lies of terrorists manipulating evil forces, is a western country, media channel and society that is in grave peril. 

This type of offloading; letting go of the need to think through what you are believing and what you are saying, is not isolated, it is a pattern -- a tendency of the mind. 

If it is your country, your reporters and your city representatives that have been offloading their need to think by simply adopting lies with such ease -- stand up and do not allow them to impact your politics and your stands.

Stand against those who are too lazy to think through what they are doing and saying. Try to awaken their minds. 

A country, media group, and society that fail to take responsibility for their own laziness of thinking, leaves the minds of all around them vulnerable and weak. 

To be a politician is to stand up to what is true and right, not to what the loudest group in the world screams about. 

To be a news reporter is to know what story it is you are telling and allow the people to understand its complexity, not become a parrot that repeats the lies of terror organizations.

The west has officially lost its mind. Wake up. No one of us is immune to the level of gaslighting and manipulation that has been going on since the 1940s, slowly taking over the UN, the law systems, the political systems, and now they come for the safety and security of people in our own countries. 

Stop believing their lies. Stop seeing Israel as the problem. Wake up to the truth that Israel is the solution. Israel is the only country in the world that can bring this insanity to an end. If you want this madness to be over, stand with Israel. There is no other way. 

History is being written with every passing minute of these turbulent days. On which side of the equation do you wish to be remembered -- the one who idolized terror and death or the one who is fighting for life and love of all?

Wait before you post. Think before you respond. Check your facts before you report. Speed of reporting only works for the benefit of the manipulators and the liars, not for the benefit of those who fight for truth, justice and peace. 

Lies, they change and mutate over time, but truth remains true no matter when you examine it. 

Jump to conclusions, and you are much more likely to stay a puppet in the hands of evil forces. Pause before you act and speak. Regardless of what you choose to do, the truth will eventually present itself to you and to the world.

May we all know better days. May the suffering on all sides end. And may we be able to usher into our world a new era of true and lasting peace.