The Real Opponent

"The King Of Israel", King Proclamation 2

Before we reach the 90 day mark, it's time to start addressing the elephant in the room: Iran

The Gazan civilians, and their de facto and de jure leaders Hamas, get way too much credit for being an opponent. They deserve a better life despite before the war having the best life among all Muslims in the Middle East outside of Israel and the oil nations, just not at the expense of Jewish, Christian, Muslim,and Druze lives in Israel. Legitimizing them through negotiations, media campaigns, and any attention at all really without addressing their connection to Iran, is exactly how The Islamic Republic of Iran would like you to think.

Emily Schrader , and HOOMAN KHALILI should not have to stand up to Iran anymore without the full backing of Israeli, Jewish, and Christian society. I honor and cherish their work introduced to me by Orly Cohen, at the University of Haifa, after attending the exhibit she curated at the Islamic Museum of Art in Jerusalem, "Five. Woman-Life-Freedom", and I will edify them all further in a later publishing. Today I have to stand for the truth; Iran is the "man behind the curtain" and it's time for Israelis to revoke the "this is our reality" mindset that left us complacent and vulnerable, no matter how difficult it may be, and provoke Iran unequivocally without fear or shame, just like Emily and Hooman.

So wake up, world, you're not in Kansas anymore.

A multifront, digital and physical theatre of war

I think the biggest misunderstandings between my perception and the rest of society's stem from a number of overwhelming misconceptions. Namely, that any intellectual, emotional, humanitarian, or diplomatic solutions and discussions can solve the hostage crisis in Gaza, or anything for the Palestinian people. As long as the Iranian regime controls the narrative, oil supply, and enriches uranium while denying human rights and violating them simultaneously on the UNHRC, any energy directed at Gaza is a loss and a loss before it ever went there. The reason I believe this is because I judge by the results, not the intentions, of my cause and my side, Israel, defending itself against 7 fronts according to Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant (Gaza, Lebanon, Judea/Samaria, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran), to which I add 3 more:

The Global Media, Academia, and Avant Garde.

1) Almost every single major news outlet without exception.

2) Harvard, yes that Harvard, and MIT, Benjamin Netanyahu's alma mater.

3) The Hadids and European Society and the UN.

All of the aforementioned entities and individuals, have made the Jewish people and Israel their target at the behest and bliss of Iran.

The root cause of all evil in the 9 fronts other than Iran, is none other than...Iran. Why fight 9 battles when we have one war to win?

Since October 7th, with the exception of who unequivocally supports Israel, I have seen the global media, academia, and avant garde, and all classes of society really for that matter, continue to hold Israel to a paradoxical higher standard that we accepted for way too long; the world insists on obligating us to respect and support all human beings, specifically Gazans, while not considering us equally worth respect and support as human beings to the same enumerations and rights as others. I put it kindly just now, but bluntly, the world expects Jews and Israelis (of all faiths and creeds) to lay down and die for Palestinian sovereignty which not even the Palestinians want despite literally having it already since Oslo. No amount of scientific evidence, journalistic documentation, criminal and military investigation and outright facts matter to our opponents in the 7 physical fronts and the 3 existential/digital fronts I mentioned above.

I won't cross the 90 day mark in order to say it.

After 85 days of vitriol, deceit, and betrayal by the global community, I declare enough is enough.

Whereas since the 8th of October, it should have been enough for us as Jews within a week of watching the world's knee jerk coordinated response to condemn us, to say enough is enough, I say it and mean it now.

Despite being the "moral army", a "light to the nations", we are treated like absolute garbage. What have we done to any country to deserve this treatment? Yet, we will stay the course, true to our roots, and continue to execute a war plan that has cost us 168 men so far and the numbers will continue to rise, as I suggested in my previous article.

To justify our self defense with an offensive strategy, the Jewish world is running a mental gymnastics media routine worthy of a gold medal to try and appease and explain to the world we're not who social media says we are. We are operating a PR campaign with the intensity of a military campaign, and employing media agencies and personalities overtime around the clock to combat Iranian misinformation warfare that started with Qatar funding universities for decades, and evolved out of control on social media unchecked for far too long. I remember the dawn of this multimedia digital array of antizionist/antisemitic tactics employed by the Muslim Brotherhood/Iran back when the Arab Spring happened. It's results have been outstanding to say the least, successfully recruiting or brainwashing, depends who you ask, at least a billion people online to outnumber any attempt by Jewish accounts and their supporters in our echo chamber, from having any chance of being heard over the unanimous global FREE PALESTINE death chants.

I remember being recruited to do online social media for Israel to combat the perversion of our people online in 2014 during the Operation Protective Edge Gaza Campaign, and I laughed because I knew what I was up against; a Shi'ite Islamic Oil Superpower hellbent on nuclear autonomy that will stop at nothing to out maneuver the proverbial "Jewish media" by sheer brute force and the law of large numbers, and they succeeded.

However, as time has shown, we as Jews have clearly missed the point in trying to make a point. The same track is on repeat: The IDF is the most moral army in the world we cry, we have been persecuted all throughout history, this is the historic Jewish homeland, and we cannot stop sharing how the accolades of the Jewish people which benefit mankind grow nonstop. Yet with all the facts and truth in the world, the respect for us as a people is nonexistent...I have watched the world grow weary of our PR campaign, to the point they have accepted that we are the enemy of mankind once again.

At that point, if I were a king, I'd declare a total media shutdown in Israel, and let the IDF execute it's battle plans to defeat Iran without any intervention in Gaza and without any apologies to the world either. But I am not king.

Iran's success in confusing the world doesn't end in Israel's demise

The biggest misconception and delusion of this war, is that "Hamas is ISIS" which was not just an awful hashtag, it's inaccurate and defers responsibility from the real perpetrator, Iran. So long as Iran threatens the global oil supply routes and exists as a thought leader for radical extreme Islam, the world as a whole, not just Israel, is in peril. #HAMASISIRAN would have worked better but it wouldn't force the Ayatollah to abdicate his throne of lies and death in Tehran.

But it appears to me nobody wants to address that because they have lost touch with reality and delude themselves into believing that the pen is mightier than the sword and we can overcome an ideological and existential opponent through fighting endless wars against their proxies and in universities, courts of law and courts of public opinion, both digitally and physically.

85 days, 2040 hours of endless torment and psychological torture in the media being perpetrated by Iran, online, in person, bombings, missile strikes, drone strikes, all over the country and the world.

I cannot fathom being a direct victim of the hostage crisis like their families, but in retrospect, the manner in which it was handled lacked respect for the families, turned them into a media circus, and yes, I know, if it were me, I'd be screaming to the whole world and crying to the Lord every day and night.... but the hostage crisis has become akin to a fashion statement and is psychologically cracking Israel's homefront, which the reservists return home to and lose morale from seeing the division and blame going against our government. The irony is lost upon me, when the hostages and this war are ACTUALLY the fault of none other, you guessed it, Iran, who committed an act of war on October 7th and convinced the world Hamas acted in resistance and Israel that Hamas committed a terror attack, a level of gaslighting that even Goebbels would struggle achieving.

This war of attrition in Gaza to fight in tunnels, is our Vietnam; it is dividing, and morally deteriorating our country, our people, and preventing us from being in full strength for the ultimate opponent and war against a military with intercontinental ballistic missiles, not bottle rockets: Iran, in Syria and Lebanon, up until Iraq and Iran itself.

With another Art of War Sun Tzu reference, the world, not Israel as a government, underestimated and did not know our enemy.

We broke it, now we bought it.

I will conclude that Israeli society however, namely, the October 6th Tel Aviv crowd, falls into the category of underestimating Iran, because we love backgammon in Israel, rolling the dice is our thing...but Iran plays chess, and are damn good at it. They put is in check. Mate is far from possible when truth is on your side, but the price of each move now is heavy and hurts so much.

Everybody in Israel at least is waiting for the day after the war to cast the first stone and crucify whoever is to blame, so let me be the first with sin to cast his stone. As a member of Israel society, as a constituent and voter for the current Israeli government, as an active military reservist, I, MATAN ANKORI, failed the ultimate mission which is to protect this country at all costs, and the 168 soldiers who died, have so far fought for nothing because I have not done enough to eliminate the cause of this issue:

IRAN.