Every Time Israel Is Attacked, These 5 Lies Come Back
- Hananya Naftali
- 2 days ago
- 4 min read
Every time Israel is attacked, the world doesn’t ask why, it asks, “What did Israel do to deserve it?”
Before the facts are known, before the bodies are buried, the accusations begin. The world doesn’t wait to find out what happened, it just recycles the same five lies. Every. Single. Time. Lies that flip the story, twist the truth, and try to turn the victim into the villain.
Lie #1: “Israel is the aggressor.”
As if defending your home, your neighbors, your children, is aggression. As if responding to missiles, slaughter, tunnels filled with jihadists sneaking in to kidnap and murder, is the same as planting bombs in living rooms. The moment Israel responds to an attack, critics spin it, “look, they hit first,” they say. They skip the part where thousands of rockets flew, or where innocents were butchered.
In truth, the aggressor was clear from the start, an army of terror, armed with hatred, evil intent, and no respect for civilian life. Blaming Israel for defending itself is turning justice upside‑down.
Lie #2: “Israel commits genocide / collective punishment.”
This is the emotional favorite. Invoke the worst word you can think of, “genocide”, and many will stop listening. They won’t question whether bombs were aimed at terrorists or gun positions, or whether warnings were given. They won’t weigh the countless Hamas missiles fired from civilian areas, using children as shields.
To be honest they don't even know the definition of genocide. Genocide requires systematic killing of a people solely because of who they are. What Israel does, what any sane, civilized country would do, is fight terrorists who declared a genocidal war against us. When terrorists build their bases under hospitals, schools, apartments, then use those structures to fire rockets, they are the criminals. Not the nation defending its people.
Lie #3: “Every civilian casualty is Israel’s fault.”
This is a lie that ignores details. A missile buried in an apartment complex? Taken out with percision‑guided munition, after evacuation orders? Forget it, Israel gets blamed for civilian deaths. But rockets launched from under a kindergarten? Or Hamas torturing Palestinians to death? That gets ignored, or worse, blamed on Israel too.
Take the case from recent conflicts: there were times when a family attic became a rocket launchpad. When terrorists crouched with explosives beside children. When humanitarian goods were stolen, forced contributions extorted. Are those children victims of Israel, or of terrorists using human shields?
Lie #4: “Palestinian civilians are all innocent victims; they want peace, Israel is the only war‑monger.”
You’ll hear this from global celebrities, from armchair activists in New York and Berlin who think their words about peace start and end with condemning Israel. They’ll pretend that Hamas is a misunderstood resistance group, that rockets are messages of love. They ignore the textbooks teaching jihad. They ignore the gatherings celebrating gore.
They ignore the reality that, in every outburst of violence, there were large parts of the population celebrating. They ignore the people's choice, not just of leadership, but of how to raise kids. They ignore, in short, that this is war. A war declared, not a “clash of civilizations,” but slaughter aimed at one group. To pretend everyone is innocent, it isn’t empathy. It’s delusion.
Lie #5: “Any effort by Israel to defend itself proves it’s the villain.”
This is the most infuriating of all. Because it demands Israel stop. Stop defending hospitals, stop defending kindergartens, stop defending its streets. Because any act of defense from Israel is automatically immoral, they say. But violence from anyone else, initial, murderous, terrorist violence - becomes “resistance,” “revolution,” “a cry for freedom.”
If you are Palestinian and you fire a rocket at a school - it’s “resistance.” If you are Israeli and you retaliate -, it’s “genocide.” The double standard isn’t subtle. It’s brutal. If this doesn’t reek of hypocrisy, what does?
Why These Lies Return, And Who Profits?
Because Israel’s defenders show strength. Because calling attackers terrorists weakens the noble narrative of “oppressed vs oppressor.” Because truth threatens illusions of black‑and‑white morality. Because there are those who profit, politically, financially, reputationally, from keeping victims on both sides; from coverage that sells anger, clicks, donations.
And because many don’t want to know. They don’t want to hear about suicide bombings against synagogues. They don’t want to face the video of missiles fired from beneath a school. They prefer shame. They prefer guilt. It’s easier to “stand with the oppressed” when you ignore who oppressed them - Hamas, and their own corrupt leaders.
Here’s the Truth That Won’t Die
Israel was attacked first. Not the other way around.
Those who fire rockets from civilian zones, from under hospitals, bear responsibility, not Israel.
Israel takes civilian safety seriously. It calls before strikes, creates humanitarian corridors - because it fights terror, not a people.
Palestinians are not a single voice; many want peace. But the terrorists and their supporters? They want Israel dead. Pretending otherwise erases their crimes.
Defending one’s home, one’s people, that is not a crime. It is a sacred duty.
Yes, the lies will come back. Every time. They will recycle the memes, the hashtag slogans, the moral posturing. They will call Israel evil with the same stoic certainty.
Let them. Let them keep shouting. Because truth doesn’t need volume. Truth only needs clarity. The enemies of truth may spray their ink, cast their shadows, spin their narratives - but Israel endures.
Because a nation built on faith, on memory, on survival, does not collapse under propaganda. It rises. It rebuilds. It defends.
And in the end, truth wins. Always.