The operation carried out by Israel in the early morning hours of June 13 had been planned since November. If it had not been put into action, Israel would have paid with its life since it looked like Iran had nuclear bombs ready and thousands of ballistic missiles prepared to deliver them and destroy the small Jewish homeland.

The turning point came quickly, but the direction and the lies had been evident for years.

Those who understand extremist Islam know that its adherents cannot give up their eschatological mission through a political negotiation, not even with U.S. President Donald Trump. In his statements, he showed a sense of reality when he warned Iran to make a deal, but they refused.

Just like the prodigious operations undertaken by Israel to win the 1967 Six-Day War, which was built over years of preparation by the Israeli army and the Mossad—knowing that it was the fundamental aim of Egypt and Syria to destroy Israel—the attack was again prepared down to the smallest detail. As always, it’s the circumstances that compel action. The training was not only technical, but of heart and soul, to face the impossible some 1,200 miles away.

In that land, in 2006, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who combined the brutal oppression of his people with a Shi’ite mystical project to destroy the Jewish people and dominate the world, as he declared even at the United Nations, organized an international cartoon contest mocking the Holocaust. It was followed by an international conference to deny the Holocaust.

Billions of dollars, spent at the expense of the starving Iranian people, were invested in building the ultimate weapon to destroy the Jews.

Meanwhile, an iron ring was forged to strangle Israel at its borders and in its streets through terror. The Iranian masses, enslaved by the regime, shouted daily, “Death to Israel.” Hamas received the plans and weapons for Oct. 7, 2024; Hezbollah got the missiles and its very existence. Tehran exported hatred of Jews to the streets and universities of the world.

If anyone in this world polluted by lies against Israel is still capable of recognizing the truth, they will understand that a new era is here and breathe a sense of relief as evil has found someone willing to fight it.

Iranian friends, many of whom have good relations with the Jews, are grateful and hope that this finally marks the end of one of the most cruel and repressive regimes of women, dissidents and homosexuals.

Before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, problems between members of the multi-ethnic country and the Jewish people were nominal. It was the leader of the revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini, who decided to ally with the antisemitic, anti-American Communist forces, defining Israel as “a colonial imperialist state.” Other Iranian leaders, Ali Khamenei and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, repeated the aim to destroy Israel as a partner of America’s “global arrogance.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that since last year, it had become clear that while Trump was initiating talks with the Iranian regime, its leaders continued to push for enriching uranium. Its dream was not only destroying Israel but of dominating the world with a nuclear weapon in fanatical hands.

The Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, led many to proclaim the end of the Jewish state. Hamas pointed the way with premeditated slaughter. Hezbollah attempted to follow suit on Oct. 8, launching rockets and missiles at Israel’s northern communities. The pager and walkie-talkie operation Israel facilitated last September against Hezbollah operatives, coupled with the assassination of both Hamas and Hezbollah senior leadership, led to the expulsion of Bashar Assad in Syria. The tide began to turn.

On June 13, Israel’s fight for its survival through autonomous decisions and a surprise military operation has restored the pride and, hopefully, future safety of this tiny country.

In Israel, people woke up in the middle of the night. This time, they were asked to be more prepared than usual to go down two floors instead of one, if possible. There are no wars without a price.

But this war may be the one that changes the face of the region. If Israel’s strength holds and if the Americans remain with them, even through negotiations, it may bring about a peace that says the era of attacking Israel is over, and that Israel no longer has to fight every day to survive.

“The cleverest ruse of the Devil,” wrote Baudelaire in 1864, “is to persuade you he does not exist.” More than 160 years later, great swathes of Leftists, Israelophobes and Western leaders appear to have fallen under this spell when it comes to the regime in Tehran.

Sir Keir Starmer delivered the usual message of pacifism on behalf of Britain. It matched that of Ursula von der Leyen and the other centrist fundamentalist European leaders, all of whom are equally addicted to the numbing opium of appeasement.

Instead of seeing a resolve for victory, we were subjected to repeated demands for “de-escalation” and “diplomacy”. Having so loudly decried the Iranian threat in recent months, even placing it in the highest category of the new foreign influence register, the Prime Minister seemed unable to connect the synapses.

By the time Israel was driven to attack, the international community had not imposed snapback sanctions on Iran. Britain even disgraced itself by refusing to help with Israel’s defence. The Ayatollah could be launching nuclear bombs at all the major cities of the West in a sulphurous haze, and David Lammy would still extol the virtues of jaw-jaw.

In central Tehran, there is a clock counting down to September 9, 2040, the date of Israel’s destruction as prophesied by the Ayatollah. The regime has enriched uranium to a level only required for military uses. When Khamenei gives speeches, the crowd chants: “Death to America! Death to England! Death to the hypocrites and the infidels! Death to Israel!” Until yesterday, Iran’s scientists could produce 15 nukes within days.

Khamenei’s pet theology lusts after the apocalypse. Triggered by the obliteration of Israel, this cataclysm will supposedly herald the arrival of the “Mahdi” to lead Shia forces to global victory. These are the convictions that drive actual Iranian foreign policy. De-escalation and diplomacy are laughable, yet this is what Israel has suffered since the Obama era. When Jerusalem was forced to act, you’d have thought the West would rally. But no. Israel was the bad guy.

We have seen this movie before. When Jerusalem destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear programme in 1981, the world was appalled. “A clear violation of… the norms of international conduct,” the United Nations huffed. Two decades later, the White House quietly acknowledged that the Jews had done everybody a favour.

We may see a similar change of heart by 2045, but there will be much danger before then. Starmer and the Europeans don’t realise how outdated they sound in this new, perilous world. As Vasily Grossman put it in Life and Fate: “Only yesterday you were sure of yourself, strong and cheerful, a son of the time. But now another time has come – and you don’t even know it.”

Their era has passed. This is Israel’s century. While dogs of war bark globally and instability grips America, the countries that will thrive will be those with conviction in their values and the courage and resilience to defend them. “The world will never pity slaughtered Jews,” observed Menachem Begin. “The world may not necessarily like the fighting Jew, but the world will have to take account of him.”

With Russia and China sharpening their knives, we must not only take account of the fighting Jew but also follow his lead. Just look at Ukraine. First, however, we must accept what our grandparents learned the hard way. The Devil exists. It makes no sense to appease him.

The State of Israel launched Operation “Rising Lion” tonight against Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure, with the aim of eliminating an existential and immediate threat to the citizens of Israel and the entire world. The Iranian regime is blatantly violating international agreements, advancing towards nuclear weapons, and operating a regional terror network.

When the world is silent – Israel is acting. I call on the UN Secretary-General and the members of the Security Council: This is a moment to make moral decisions.

Stand by Israel – or you will be partners in a dangerous silence. Unlike in the past – today we have a state, we have an army, and we are not waiting for those who want to destroy us to surprise us.

A mass psychotic epidemic of pavlovian responses targeting Israel and its supporters is currently raging worldwide.

Like its close relative, Trump derangement syndrome, one has only to mention the words Israel, Zionist or Jew, in order for convulsive condemnations to be spewed forth with venomous vitriol.

In many cases, the responses are unhinged and clearly indicate latent prejudices bubbling to the surface.

There’s no cure for this malicious malady because the rot has become incestuous, infecting large swathes of humanity. True facts and logical arguments are of no avail. Appealing to a sense of logic is a lost cause because, like all such derangement syndromes, cures no longer work.

One can only expose and shine a strong light on this pathological phenomenon in the hope that those still resistant to irrational thoughts might be able to wage a counterattack against the disease.

Take the Australian Government’s revoking of a visa for Hillel Fuld as one of the latest examples of this deranged mindset.

This Israeli influencer and advocate had been booked to visit Australia and speak at fundraising events for the national ambulance service, Magen David Adom. His visa had been approved in advance and all seemed in order. Prior to his scheduled departure, some Islamic and anti-Israel groups in Australia got wind that he was arriving. They complained to the immigration authorities that this individual was an “Islamophobic” threat and likely to cause serious problems.

Quicker than you can say “kangaroo court” the Federal Cabinet Minister in charge of immigration cancelled his visa and declared him a “threat to the health, safety and good order” of Australians.

What is his alleged crime?

Obviously, being a Jewish Israeli who articulates uncomfortable truths about jihadist death cults must be one of his original sins.

The fact that his late brother was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist at a shopping centre not far from where we live obviously never resonated with the politician who rushed to ban him.

His opposition to the creation of “Palestine” in the heartland of Israel must be another black mark against him. The fact that this intended fake country would be a terror-supporting entity in our midst is irrelevant to many Israel haters and ignoramuses of history.

That was the same reason that the current Australian Government banned the visit of former Israeli Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked at the end of 2024. Her crime for articulating uncomfortable facts was a perceived “threat to social cohesion”.

Presumably, the poisonous rhetoric articulated against Jews and Israel by Australian-based Islamic preachers poses no such threat. This must be so because there have been no consequences.

Could the fact that the Minister’s electorate has a large number of voters who identify as Muslims and whose anti-Israel views are no secret, have anything to do with his decision?

I predicted that post election the “chickens would come home to roost” and so it is transpiring. Who would have thought a few years ago that Jewish Israelis would be barred from entering Australia because they had the temerity to point out some basic home truths?

Interestingly, I searched in vain for a comprehensive report of this sordid affair on the website of the Sydney Morning Herald. I could find no mention of this scandalous situation. It may be that something was buried in an obscure part of the site but, if so, it certainly was well hidden.

What I did discover, however, was a headline which read “My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it is time for Jews to abandon Israel.” Revealed for all to see is the murky agenda of many in the media. What lies behind this obsessive urge to dig up disaffected self loathers in order to smear Israel?

It is a classic case of an Israel derangement syndrome on steroids infecting the Australian body politic of what was once a safe haven for Jews.

In contrast, SKY Australia has given the subject of Fuld’s banning extensive publicity.

A perfect example of how deranged news and views now dominate the media was recently revealed.

I happened to come across a YouTube presentation which asserted in all seriousness that “the Zionists did not make the desert bloom. The Palestinians did.” Anyone viewing this work of fiction would immediately be brainwashed into believing that the “colonial Jewish occupiers” took over a land which was a verdant paradise. Instead of barren land and swamps, the so-called “indigenous” Palestinians had cultivated the land since the time of the Canaanites. It was apparently the colonial Jewish settlers who falsified history in order to justify their illegal occupation.

That is how lies are sanitised and false revisionist fables multiply, all eagerly embraced by the growing legions of Zionist haters.

SKY NEWS UK provided a gem of tendentious reporting. Its headline proclaimed, “British surgeon maintains that the only people she has ever seen in Gaza with weapons are the IDF.”  There you have it in one sentence. There are presumably no armed terrorists in Gaza. The only people armed are the IDF which “proves” that Israel is engaged in “genocidal” activities.

Welcome to the deranged purveyors of deliberately deceitful news.

Another example of unhinged behaviour could easily be entitled “a life on the ocean waves.”

Starring Greta Thunberg in a leading role, this maritime farce to Gaza was always going to be a media publicity stunt designed with only one aim in mind.

It was never about sending any sort of meaningful aid to the allegedly starving people of Gaza. With less than a truckload of actual aid on board whatever would have been left after a period at sea was hardly likely to have helped more than a handful.

The sole objective right from the start was to create a hoped-for international incident whereby Israel could be pilloried and condemned. What better visuals might there be than the sight of the IDF storming the vessel, causing countless casualties and even better, sinking the boat?

One could almost hear the “humanitarian” crew salivating at the thought of a major media spectacle in the making. The closer they came to the Israeli coast the more frantic and frenetic were their social media performances. It was as though they were daring the Israelis to attack and thereby fulfil their hoped-for expectations.

The international media naturally played along with this pathetic performance. As complicit partners in this comedy of errors they reported each and every act. No doubt, prospective headlines and photos of Israeli “brutal force” to come whetted their appetites for what promised to be front-page news.

After such a build-up, imagine the devastating let-down when Israeli naval personnel calmly boarded and handed out bottles of water and sandwiches. Photos of Greta accepting this food must have been a massive blow to the over-inflated egos of the intrepid crew.

What do you do when your main props and predicted violence fail to materialise?

The fallback position was soon revealed.

Throwing mobile phones and other electronic equipment overboard was swiftly followed by accusations of “kidnapping” and “violations of international law.”  The media, sadly deprived of a spectacle, resorted to the usual misrepresentations and fudged facts.

The Israeli Government assembled the motley mob and screened for their edification a documentary on the atrocities committed by their Gaza terrorist friends on 7 October 2023, in a futile attempt to impart some actual reality. Refusing to be confused by any sort of facts, the intrepid protesters preferred neither to view nor to listen.

This is par for the course and exposes the real agenda of all those pillorying Israel.

Greta has now been flown back into the welcoming arms of all her European and Scandinavian groupies. Those who refused to be expelled voluntarily from Israel are detained and deported later.

It’s a pity that these hypocrites were not made to “walk the plank” and forced to spend the rest of their days in the welcoming embrace of Hamas. Incarcerated in the underground tunnels of Gaza and experiencing jihadist hospitality would have been a fitting conclusion to their juvenile expedition.

At least Israel has declared them “persona non Greta.”

The pathogen of anti-Israel derangement is now rampaging unchecked through the foreign ministries of so-called “friendly” nations.

Stand by for further developments.