If You Only Read One Thing About Israel, Palestine, and the Jews — Read This
The Iron Dome is the world’s greatest missile defense system. It keeps destruction, violence, and hate out of Israel, keeping the people inside of it safe.
The dissemination of anti-Jew ideas functions very much the same way. We are under a relentless barrage of anti-Jew, anti-Israel messaging, all day, every day, from all around us — but unlike Hamas rockets, this weaponry is invisible, and we don’t get an alert on our phones to warn us when it’s coming. Even one of these mental missiles getting through can cause extreme damage.
In order to stop them, we need to break their cloaking abilities, build up our own internal warning system, and safeguard our minds where truth and clarity reside.
Today, I’m here to help you build your own Mental Iron Dome — to provide you with the three essential, unassailable, missile-proof ideas that comprise the foundation upon which your impenetrable fortress of moral clarity is to be built.
We Have Enemies. And They Have a Strategy.
As Western liberal societies, we naively — arrogantly — ignorantly continue to believe that the entire world operates on our same fixed set of moral values. That everyone plays by the same rules we do.
They don’t. That’s not reality.
Our enemies — Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, supported by proxy militias and other opportunistic states like Turkey and Qatar — are united in destabilizing Western power, liberal norms, and Israeli sovereignty. This is not a conspiracy theory. Qatar invests billions of dollars in American education. Russia interferes in our presidential elections. China uses TikTok to sow discord. This is common knowledge.
Like it or not, we are living in an age of mass manipulation — our institutions, media, education, and culture are being subverted through the deliberate use of emotional triggers, identity framing, and narrative control to steer our perceptions and actions while preserving the illusion of independent judgment.
The Hidden Engine: Repetition
To understand how to protect ourselves, we turn to former KGB propaganda specialist Yuri Bezmenov and his concept of demoralization — whereby a society’s ability to recognize truth, defend itself, or believe in its own institutions is eroded by nefarious actors.
The hidden engine of demoralization is repetition.
What is repeated becomes familiar. What is familiar becomes credible. What becomes credible no longer needs to be defended. Repetition doesn’t require proof — only presence.
The Illusory Truth Effect: Repeated statements feel more true, even if they are known to be false. This is one of the strongest, most replicated findings in behavioral science. It works on experts. It works on people who have been lied to before. It works without argument.
Narrative entrenchment: Once a narrative has been embraced, to challenge it feels disruptive, annoying, or easily dismissed as partisan. This is why propaganda thrives on slogans, binaries, memes, buzzwords — the aim is not nuance or truth, just stuff that’s easy to repeat.
Pluralistic ignorance: When an idea appears ubiquitous, we assume everyone else believes it. Silence is interpreted as agreement, and public dissent feels risky and lonely — so even when many people privately know something isn’t true, they don’t speak up.
Pillar One: Palestinianism
Now that we’ve named what we’re up against, we’re ready to start building our Mental Iron Dome.
The first pillar we have to lock in is the understanding, without a shred of doubt, that:
If the Arabs wanted a Palestinian state more than they wanted to destroy the Jewish one, there would be a Palestinian state. Period.
This simple notion is what the entire Israeli-Arab conflict is about. Not because I said so, but because the Palestinians have said so, literally and openly for decades, supported by every action they have taken for the past 100 years.
The Evidence
Let’s look at the very first partition plan the Arabs were offered in 1937 under the Peel Commission — Britain’s initial attempt to deal with the mandate they had over the territory known as Palestine. The British plan offered Jews about 18% of the territory, with all of the rest going to the Arabs, minus a British-controlled corridor through Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
They violently revolted against the British for the next several years, leading to the closure of Jewish immigration with catastrophic results for European Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust.
Moreover, nearly every time peace has seemingly been on the table, the Palestinian response has been to initiate violence against the Jews. The War of Independence. The Second Intifada. The disengagement from Gaza.
Ask yourself: Are these the actions of people who just want a state if only they’d be granted one? Or the actions of people who want to eradicate Jews first, state later?
Israel was created the same way nearly every other country on Earth was created: by a nationalist religious or ethnic group — in the Jews’ case, both — building the foundations of statehood in the geographic location they’re connected to, and then having their new state recognized by other nations around the world.
Israel is a country. Not an experiment, not an ideology, not a project. It is a country, like all the others, and it is not getting reversed any more than any other country on Earth is.
What Isn’t the Reason
The existence of Israel is not the reason there’s no Palestinian state. Lack of financial or public support is not the reason. The Occupied West Bank is not the reason. Bibi Netanyahu is not the reason.
The only reason you consider any of these as legitimate explanations is because you’ve been distracted into doing so by mass manipulation. You have been conned into embracing repetition as reasoning.
Engaging with anything but the core idea is like shuffling chairs on the deck of the Titanic. The iceberg is Palestinianism — and until Palestinian society accepts the presence of Jews in some part of the land to which we are indigenous, there will be no two states.
Ideas like “from the river to the sea,” “right of return,” support for UNRWA, the generational inheritance of refugee status — these are the lifelines of Palestinianism. And our focus has to be on dismantling these ideas. Not just for the safety and security of the Jewish people — but for the Palestinians as well, who will never live in a state of their own as long as the Western World keeps their leaders doped up on billions in welfare and long-held dreams of Jewish extinction on life support.
It has never mattered what Israeli government is in power — right, left, or center. The Palestinians said no to all of them.
Mental Iron Dome — Pillar One
When the Palestinians — as a collective and through their leadership — decide they want a state more than they want Jews to not have one, the conflict will end. Everything else is noise.
Next in this series
Part 2: Antizionism — the contemporary anti-Jew hate movement masquerading as social justice. And why the only reason you’ve ever questioned whether the libels might be true is repetition.
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