Since the reestablishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have endured a relentless campaign of hostility, propaganda, and physical assault from surrounding Arab nations and terror movements. Yet, in every generation, Israel’s survival has stood as both a testimony to history and, many would say, a miracle of divine providence.
At the United Nations’ partition plan of 1947, the Jewish leadership reluctantly accepted a divided land, while the Arab leadership rejected it outright and declared war. Immediately upon Israel’s declaration of independence in May 1948, five Arab armies—Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq—invaded the fledgling state, seeking its destruction. Against impossible odds, Israel survived, establishing beyond doubt that the Jewish people were not interlopers but indigenous heirs to the land of their forefathers.1
In 1967, after years of Arab threats and military build-up, Israel was again forced to defend itself in what became known as the Six-Day War. Surrounded on all sides and warned of “driving the Jews into the sea,” Israel struck preemptively and not only survived but reclaimed Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria—the very heartland of ancient Israel.2 This swift and decisive victory was seen by many as miraculous, with commentators across the world acknowledging the astonishing speed and scope of Israel’s defense.
Only six years later, in 1973, Arab armies launched a coordinated surprise attack on Yom Kippur, Israel’s holiest day. Once more, Israel was pushed to the brink but emerged victorious. These repeated aggressions were not the result of Israeli expansionism but of Arab refusal to recognize a Jewish state in any form.3
The so-called “Palestinian” identity, weaponized in the late 20th century, has little basis in history. The term “Palestine” itself was a Roman invention after the Bar Kokhba revolt (135 CE), deliberately imposed to erase Jewish ties to the land by renaming Judea as “Syria Palaestina.”4 For centuries thereafter, the land was under successive imperial rulers—Byzantine, Arab, Ottoman, and British—but never was there a sovereign “Palestinian” nation. Even the Arab inhabitants identified themselves primarily as part of broader Arab or tribal affiliations until the mid-20th century. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) itself was founded not in 1948 but in 1964—long before the “occupation” of the West Bank or Gaza. Its charter openly declared its goal to eradicate the State of Israel, not to create peace.5
In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, dismantling thriving Jewish communities and leaving behind fertile farmland, infrastructure, and a functioning economy. Rather than building upon this, Hamas seized control, turning Gaza into a launchpad for terror—digging tunnels, smuggling weapons, and firing thousands of rockets into Israel.6 The narrative that Israel’s subsequent military responses constitute “genocide” is both historically inaccurate and morally inverted. No genocide in history has ever been characterized by warning civilians of incoming strikes, dropping leaflets, making phone calls, or providing humanitarian aid—even as the aggressors continue attacks.7
Since 2022, Hamas and other terror factions have escalated hostilities, culminating in the heinous October 7 attacks, deliberately timed during Israel’s High Holy Days. Civilians were targeted—men, women, and children—not as collateral but as intended victims. Israel’s military response is thus not one of aggression but of survival. To label such defense “genocide” is to invert victim and aggressor and to trivialize real genocides of history.
On October 7, 2022, Hamas invaded Israel in a brutal assault: murdering families, burning homes, taking hostages — an act of declared genocide. Over 1,200 Israelis were killed, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas fighters openly filmed their atrocities. They did not target soldiers alone, but civilians: children, women, the elderly. This was not “resistance.” It was bloodlust.
Israel responded, as any nation must, by defending its people. The IDF entered Gaza not to annihilate Arabs but to dismantle the terror infrastructure that Hamas had built beneath homes, schools, hospitals, and mosques. Hamas embedded itself deliberately among civilians, turning Gaza into a human shield. Every rocket launched from Gaza was both an attack on Israelis and a death sentence for Gazans used as cover.
Israel dropped leaflets, sent text messages, and broadcast evacuation routes before airstrikes — measures unprecedented in modern warfare. No genocidal army warns civilians before striking. Genocide seeks extermination; Israel sought to root out terror while sparing lives. The tragic civilian toll is real, but responsibility lies solely with Hamas, which uses its own people as weapons of propaganda.
The accusation of “Palestinian genocide” collapses under scrutiny:
- Genocide requires intent to exterminate a people. Israel’s leaders have repeatedly affirmed their fight is with Hamas, not with Arabs as a people.
- Population growth disproves genocide. From 1948 to 2022, the Arab population of Gaza and the West Bank grew from hundreds of thousands to over five million. This is the opposite of extermination.
- Humanitarian aid flows into Gaza. Even during wartime, Israel has facilitated food, medicine, and fuel deliveries. Genocidal regimes do not feed those they seek to annihilate.
The term “genocide” is propaganda, weaponized to turn the world against Israel while absolving Hamas of its crimes. And even ‘conservatives’ and ‘christians’ are taking the bait now, drinking the “Palestinian” cool-aid. It echoes Psalm 83:
“They have said, ‘Come, let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.’” (Psalm 83:4)
Ezekiel foresaw the regathering of Israel:
“I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.” (Ezekiel 36:24)
And again:
“I will open your graves… and bring you into the land of Israel.” (Ezekiel 37:12)
Zechariah saw a day when Jerusalem would be the world’s flashpoint:
“In that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the peoples of the earth be gathered against it.” (Zechariah 12:3)
Today we see the foreshadows. The world rails against Israel, accusing her of crimes while excusing those who shed innocent blood. This is not yet Revelation, not yet the rise of the Anti-Messiah or the false peace of Daniel 9:27. But the stage is being set.
Yes, Israel has sinned, as all nations sin. But the truth stands: she does not wage genocide. She wages survival. Surrounded by enemies who vow her destruction, slandered by the nations, Israel yet lives.
The repeated survival of Israel, often against overwhelming odds, recalls the promises of Scripture: “No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper” (Isaiah 54:17). The restoration of the Jewish people to their land after centuries of exile was foretold by the prophets (Ezekiel 37; Amos 9:14–15). Yet, the conflicts and false cries of “peace” and “justice” may well foreshadow the deceptive covenant of the Anti-Messiah (Daniel 9:27; 1 Thessalonians 5:3). Thus, while modern events do not “fulfill Revelation” in the strict sense, they are aligning with the prophetic framework that warns of tribulation and false peace before Messiah’s ultimate reign.
The narrative of a “Palestinian genocide” is a weapon of propaganda, designed to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist and defend itself. In truth, Israel has been attacked repeatedly since its founding, often miraculously preserved, and continues to face existential threats masked in political rhetoric. The Jewish presence in the land is ancient, continuous, and prophetic. The suffering of innocents is tragic on all sides, but the moral clarity of Israel’s right to survival and defense must not be clouded by deceitful narratives. Israel’s existence itself is both a historical miracle and a prophetic signpost for the world.
Footnotes
- Benny Morris, 1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War (Yale University Press, 2008). ↩
- Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2002). ↩
- Abraham Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War (Schocken, 2004). ↩
- Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (Knopf, 1996). ↩
- PLO Charter (1964). ↩
- Jonathan Schanzer, Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). ↩
- Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Israel (Wiley, 2003). ↩
Well said!!