Victim blaming works for both sides in this debate. Israelis, beset from all sides since their founding, were already victimized by local Arab hostility and complicity in the Nazi attempt at exterminating European Jewry. Three further wars, ongoing terror attacks and 75 years later, the October 7 attacks woke up a complacent citizenry to the reality that their security was not all that secure.

The “Free Palestine” narrative views Israel as a just another European colonial project, out of step wi…

isreal could have stopped it before it happened.