“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.” — John F. Kennedy
Subjugation of a sovereign nation can take various forms. As a society, we generally remember classic overt colonialism like the Islamic conquest of the Middle East or European conquest of the Americas. In modern times, however, covert methods have been the more prevalent and less visible mechanism for gaining global power.
Israel — with a long history of colonization by the likes of the Romans, Babylonians, Arabs, Ottomans, and British — has twice lost and regained its native sovereignty over the millennia. Today, it faces a powerful subversive force working in the shadows to once again take power over its land and people.
For years, billions of dollars have flowed into a hidden war against Israel’s democracy, to replace the current leadership which stands in the way of an alternative agenda. The research shared in this piece shines light onto a shocking picture; a glimpse into a vast landscape covered in darkness.
The Covert War on Israel#
Prior to this research, I had only read about declassified CIA foreign operations; many years after the job was done, the damage had been inflicted, and generations had suffered the consequences. It is my hope that sharing this now, while this operation is live and ongoing, contributes to some extent to defending against it. There seems to be a common notion that foreign plots to overthrow governments are a thing of the past, no longer practiced today. This work should dispel such an idea.
In this piece, I’ll expose how the CIA and its affiliated financial network have been subverting the State of Israel for years, especially in recent times leading up to and immediately after the October 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack. Under the false pretenses of foreign aid, humanitarian efforts, and peacebuilding projects, USAID and American NGOs with close ties to CIA have acted as covert vehicles for deploying billions of dollars in an all-out assault to overthrow Israel’s democratically elected government, as they’ve done in many countries over the last ~80 years.
I will prove this, as concisely as possible, in the following ways:
- Presenting evidence showing that USAID and key American “philanthropic” organizations are controlled by, or acting in coordination with, the CIA.
- Tracing the flow of funds from CIA-linked institutions to NGOs in Israel, Gaza, and the US, which have subsequently deployed those funds into a multi-front hybrid war aimed at government overthrow.
- Sharing US government reports and other credible documented evidence to reveal common patterns between today’s political events surrounding Israel and known CIA operations from the past, in which the same kinds of tactics and the exact same financial intermediaries were utilized.
Unmasking USAID#
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been at the center of controversy in 2025. The Trump administration, with the help of Elon Musk and his team at DOGE, have targeted the organization for engaging in “waste, fraud, and abuse” in their use of US taxpayer money. Musk has gone further by calling USAID a “criminal organization” and even lamenting that he’d be killed if he exposed everything his team has found in their investigation.
But what is USAID, really?
On the surface, USAID has presented itself as a noble foreign aid project, dedicated to championing heartwarming causes like democracy, human rights, and peacebuilding. A “premier international development agency” driving global progress. But in reality, USAID has long functioned as a financing arm of the CIA, providing the money to carry out covert operations worldwide over many decades.
Fueling political unrest in Bangladesh, creating a fake social media platform to influence the Cuban population, installing a puppet government in Ukraine, and trafficking drugs in Laos are just a few examples of USAID’s work over the years. USAID often carries out jobs that are too dirty or controversial for the CIA to handle directly; when the CIA can’t secure approval from Congress, or the actions required might violate international agreements or strain alliances.
Mike Benz, a former US State Department senior official, has been the leading whistleblower and activist exposing USAID for years.
Side note: It’s important to recognize that the US government and all of its agencies and departments, in practice, do not act as one cohesive, aligned, coherent entity. They’re a collection of different groups that have captured power within the political system. Not only can they clash with what citizens want, but they can also have interests that oppose each other, and even conflict with the long-term success of the country. In other words, there’s practically no such thing as “The Government” as an entity. I personally do not believe the actions of the CIA reflect US government foreign policy. In my view, its actions, especially in more recent decades, have largely undermined American interests while hijacking public funds and evading accountability.
Dirty and Controversial#
In acting as a vehicle of global soft power and influence, USAID money has reached all corners of the Earth. Their grants have landed in the hands of many different causes, organizations, and people; with varying levels of justifiability in their stated purposes.
While several USAID-funded initiatives have triggered anger and confusion among Americans footing the bill, one would be hard-pressed to find a more extreme case than its activities regarding Israel.
According to congressional testimony from February 2025 and a report from the Middle East Forum, USAID funneled approximately $1.9 billion into the hands of Hamas terrorists in the time immediately after their October 7th attack on Israel. This funding, calculated by MEF as 90% of the $2.1 billion sent to Gaza by USAID during this period, was a significant contributing factor to Hamas’ ability to survive and sustain a prolonged war with Israel and to maintain its control of Gaza without surrendering the hostages it kidnapped.
This was done despite multiple warnings from the US Government Accountability Office that found USAID funds were being “provided for terrorist activities in West Bank and Gaza,” on a repetitive basis ever since 2005, when the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) withdrew from Gaza.
While this story is hard to believe on its own, it’s not even the only time CIA has funded an Islamic terrorist group, let alone via USAID. Hezbollah, Al-qaeda, Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and HTS (which recently took control of Syria) are among the long list of recipients. It’s possible that US taxpayers, because of the CIA and its network, unwittingly rank as a top global financier of terrorism.
The Philanthropists#
As you might expect from an elite spy agency, CIA uses sophisticated methods to obfuscate their money trails when delivering funding to covert projects. Using a web of dark money networks — NGOs that act as a chain of intermediary hops in between US public funds and their target destination — and secretly affiliated organizations that consistently co-invest alongside them, they make it difficult to trace where the money is flowing and what it’s being used for.
“The Agency also maintained covert ties to American foundations in order to pass funds secretly to groups whose work the CIA supported… large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source… The funding pattern involved a mixture of bona fide charitable foundations, devised foundations and funds, ‘front men’ drawn from a list of America’s most prominent citizens, and lawyers representing undisclosed clients.” — The Church Committee Report
In 1975, a Senate Select Committee called the “Church Committee” conducted a wide-ranging investigation of US intelligence agencies, where it “took public and private testimony from hundreds of people, collected huge volumes of files from the FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, and many other federal agencies, and issued 14 reports…”
In these reports, they refer to The Big Three American “philanthropic” NGOs that consistently played prime roles in funding CIA operations: Rockefeller, Ford, and Carnegie. Today, the same structure remains but it has grown to include newer key players such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and Tides Center, which have become consistent fixtures.
Analyzing the activity of these entities indicates that they act as a coordinated network, using a combination of money from the world’s wealthiest elites and US taxpayers to operate a machine for overthrowing governments around the world.
Destabilization-as-a-Service#
A key lesson of studying covert regime change operations is that people are extremely vulnerable to manipulation. It’s unfortunately way too easy to program human behavior by pressing the right buttons. At the heart of every CIA government overthrow is a population that’s receptive to influence and (unknowingly) willing to be directed toward self-destruction for the benefit of outside interests.
The CIA network’s fingerprints can be found on revolutions around the world, when you know what they look like. Perhaps the one that’s been documented in most detail is that of 1970s Chile. Determined to overthrow the democratically elected Allende government, CIA orchestrated an all-out psychological war on Chilean society in order to make it happen. With funding from the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, these were some of their main tactics:
- Creating a united front of political groups opposing the Allende government in order to defeat him in the 1970 election.
- Funding the country’s mainstream media outlets to control their narratives and install anti-regime propaganda.
- Infiltrating and giving undercover financial support to workers unions, universities, think tanks, business associations, cultural institutions, and clergy to promote and give public validation to CIA anti-government narratives.
- Funding, directly and through 3rd parties, demonstrations, propaganda activities, civil disruption (ie blocking transportation), calls for insurrection, and organized strikes.
- Penetrating the military and planting false intelligence.
When all of the above still failed to change the outcome of the election, CIA carried out a military coup in 1973; with economists supported by Ford and Rockefeller becoming advisors to General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship.
CIA intervention in the Bolivian elections of 1964 and 1966 ensured the victory of General René Barrientos, with funding from USAID, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation.
“The objectives of this program have been accomplished. A new political party was built to provide the platform for General Barrientos. This base was reinforced by a coalition of already existing parties. Despite many internal stresses, this pro-Barrientos complex was held together during the crucial pre-electoral period by covert financial support. At the same time covert financial assistance was given to a rival party to ensure its participation in the elections. In addition, a second important opposition party which was considering withdrawing from the electoral process.” — Foreign Service Institute, US State Department
Fast forward to more recent times. 2014 saw the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine, when the unpopular yet democratically elected president Yanukovych was ousted by a grassroots protest movement funded by USAID, Open Society Foundations, and Tides Center. Victoria Nuland of the US State Department was caught orchestrating who would be installed as the new leader, well in advance of the revolution. Senator John McCain was on the ground supporting the protests. Joe Biden managed the transition.
The 2016 color revolution in Macedonia was the result of a grassroots protest movement led by NGOs funded by USAID, Tides Center, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Open Society Foundations — who spent “25 years of dedication” to eventually overthrow the government.
“USAID gave several Soros groups millions of American tax dollars that allegedly went toward stoking social unrest in the Balkan Peninsula, including collaborative efforts to destabilize Macedonia’s democratically elected center-right government and ultimately overthrow it.” — Townhall
The “surprise result” of the 2023 election in Guatemala came amid widespread protests, strikes, and highway blockades by activists demanding the president’s resignation. Additionally, a questionable move blocked the leading presidential candidate from the ballot just weeks before the vote. Funding flowed into Guatemalan NGOs from 2021–2023 from USAID, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. After the election, Secretary General of the Organization of American States ejaculated that it was “an exemplary election day, a true civic celebration.”
Next we’ll dive into Israel, where it’s easy to spot common elements from each of these regime change operations in current political events. USAID funding to NGOs in Israel grew from $5–10M per year from 2019–2021 to $250M for 2022- 2027.
The Kaplan Movement#
“The Biden-Harris Administration funneled U.S. taxpayer money to certain Israeli entities with the effect of attempting to undermine Israel’s democratically elected government… In 2023, Israel experienced widespread protests over the government’s plan to reform the country’s judicial system… Media reports later revealed that these protests were funded in part by U.S. grant money that had been funneled through various American and Israeli non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to groups directing the protests.” — United States House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committee
The Kaplan Street protest movement has raged through Tel Aviv, Israel for 2.5 years, criticizing prime minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s leadership and demanding his removal based on the following main points:
- Holding him responsible for Israel’s failure to prevent or mitigate the October 7th Hamas terrorist attack
- Blaming him for Hamas not releasing the hostages
- Opposing his proposed reforms to the country’s judicial system, which would shift policy decision-making power from the judicial branch to the executive branch
The Kaplan movement was started in January 2023 by Standing Together, an NGO primarily funded by the New Israel Fund, whose CEO Larry Garber was a senior USAID official for 15 years. New Israel Fund acts as a vehicle for funding anti-government movements in Israel and has given over $300 million to 900+ organizations. It has some familiar faces as its donors: Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, and Tides Center (funded by USAID).
NIF grant recipients include:
- Adalah — promoter of anti-Israel UN resolutions and ICC investigations
- Mada al-Carmel — supporter of the BDS movement and advocate for ending Israel’s identification as a Jewish state
- Human Rights Defenders Fund — spreading the lie that Israel is a racist apartheid state
- Mousawwa Center — advocating to change the Israeli flag and national anthem and to repeal the Law of Return
- Yesh Din — using legal warfare to defend terrorist organizations and denying the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism
- Association for Civil Rights in Israel — co-funded by Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundations to conduct international anti-Israel advocacy via meetings with foreign diplomats and public events
- Movement for Quality Government in Israel — a US State Department grantee known for attempting to block Bibi from becoming PM after winning the 2020 election.
A second prime player driving the movement is Blue and White Future — an NGO that indirectly received $4M in USAID funding, via three layers of intermediaries (including Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors), and $18M from PEF Israel — an intermediary for Open Society Foundations, New Israel Fund, and the Wexner Foundation , which received $46M from the one and only Jeffrey Epstein. Overall, BWF has raised over $40M, the majority of which is foreign-sourced. The money has been used to fund and operate the headquarters for the coalition of activist groups rallying the Israeli population to fight against the Netanyahu government and to hire a high-end PR firm to run nationwide ad campaigns demonizing the prime minister on billboards, banners, youtube ads, and social media.
BWF’s financial activity includes backing Brothers In Arms — a group that sabotaged Israel’s military defenses before the October 7th terrorist attacks, by running a campaign to convince tens of thousands of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) reservists to refuse to serve when called; as a way to protest against the government. Less than 2 months before Oct. 7 , IDF Brigadier General Ari Singer warned the country:
“Protest leaders are conducting a propaganda and influence operation to topple the government, and appear willing to sacrifice the army’s reputation to do it. It’s called psychological operations, or psyops, and it’s being carried out brilliantly by those leading the protests. It’s like they read the 101 manual on subversion. The army doesn’t appear to recognize what’s happening, which is why it hasn’t adequately confronted the threat.”
Brothers in Arms have applied various pressure tactics onto Israeli society, like blocking highways to demand a change in government, disrupting prayers on Yom Kippur (Judaism’s holiest day of the year), and holding weekly protests demanding the prime minister’s resignation. While their narratives and stunts have varied, they have always been tied to getting rid of the current government. A deeper look at the organization reveals they raised $45M, majority foreign-sourced, from donors like Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the Wexner Family, with ties to Jeffrey Epstein — suspected CIA asset — and his close associate, Ehud Barak.
Side note: the subject of Israel’s proposed judicial reforms is a big topic on its own, worthy of long discussion and debate. For the purposes of this article, however, the main point I want to convey is that whether you believe the reforms would hurt or help Israeli society, this issue is being weaponized to rally people to attack and destabilize Israel’s democracy — which is something anyone concerned about Israel’s future should not want. The psyop is not only meant to replace the prime minister but also to break the integrity of Israeli democracy.
The Traitor is the Plague#
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politique so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ehud Barak — former prime minister, spearhead of Israel’s anti-government movement, public instigator of protests and disobedience, and private instigator of a violent coup — is a key inside man of this regime change operation. His former Chief of Staff, Gilead Sher, is the co-founder of Blue and White Future. Barak has championed Israel’s version of the CIA inversionist narrative that the people must stage a coup against the country’s democratically elected government in order to save democracy.
This narrative is modified around the edges to fit the details of politics in each country where it is deployed, but the core concept remains consistently intact. You may have heard a version of it before in your country, or you may in the future.
As they did in Chile, the CIA’s destabilization movement in Israel has made use of key groups and figures in Israeli society:
“Barak and his lieutenants have organized groups of pilots and commandos from elite IDF special forces units. They have mobilized the far-left physicians’ union, the universities, Israel’s business and banking elite, high-tech investors and workers, and other elite groups to present an image that all right-thinking members of Israel’s ruling class oppose the government and view it as illegitimate.” — Caroline Glick
While Barak has tried to obfuscate his ties to the groups orchestrating the movement, he has publicly explained the overall plan:
“All these protests which succeeded… when they reach a level of 3.5% of the population, which ends up being about 8% of the adult population, tenaciously, persistently keeping up the protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and so on- at the end, the government either falls or capitulates… and we already crossed this number… so we are heading in the right direction… Basically I’m confident we’ll do it.” — Ehud Barak
Altogether, the onslaught of NGO funding, psyop campaigns, and protests brought division and instability in Israeli society to an all-time high leading up to October 7th 2023, making it most vulnerable to an attack. But it has not let up since then; shape-shifting with evolving narratives and taking every opportunity to spin the grievances of Israeli society into channeled anti-government rage.
Swimming in PsyOps#
NGOs in Israel, secretly serving as foreign-backed enemies of the state, have created a psychological environment that warps the perception of every day reality for Israelis. Perhaps the most impactful outcome of this has been a developing societal demoralization — the diminishment of the public’s hopefulness in their outlook on the country’s future.
Anecdotally, I’ve had many conversations with people in Israel who hold deep fears, citing concerns that are line-by-line regurgitations of NGO propaganda. Families have moved away and entrepreneurs have decided to build their businesses abroad, due to fear of instability in Israel. Israel’s political and bureaucratic system has many issues — it’s very far from perfect. But this level of panic is not justified by reality. It is a manufactured, programmed result of the constant mental bombardment that the Israeli public receives — from the media, the activists, and the politicians undermining the government.
The overall meme — that the Netanyahu government is the source of all of Israel’s problems (real or imagined) and must be removed by any means necessary — is deeply planted into the minds of many Israelis. I don’t know if that can be reversed.
Their behavior, like the citizens of previously mentioned revolutions, reminds me of the “zombie ant fungus” phenomenon found in nature. When a fungus called ophiocordyceps unilateralis infects an ant, it takes over the ant’s mind, manipulating it to destroy itself and maximize its spread of the fungus to other ants.
The Brothers In Arms campaign could not have been successful in a vacuum. Former soldiers, who risked their lives for the country, would have had to be so deeply demoralized beforehand in order to be pliable enough to the notion of actually boycotting their duty. This is a sign of serious damage to the psyche of Israel’s population.
The Western Front#
On October 8th, 2023, while Hamas terrorists were still actively hunting civilians inside of Israel, the anti-Israel movement began activating on university campuses around the US and then spreading to cities around the Western world.
While most of the people marching have been doing so mindlessly, the ones directing them have not. The movement has been led by a network of NGOs, built to act as its organizational and financial infrastructure. They include:
- Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — funded by Tides Center (recipient of millions from both USAID and Rockefeller Brothers Fund) and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
- Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) — funded by Tides Center
- Adalah — funded by Tides Center, New Israel Fund, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- CODEPINK — funded by Tides Center and Benjamin Fund (led by CODEPINK’s cofounder)
- US Campaign for Palestinian Rights — funded by Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Benjamin Fund
- Palestine Legal — funded by Tides Center and Rockefeller Brothers Fund
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center — funded by Tides Center
- Middle East Children’s Alliance — funded by Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Open Society Foundations.
A big part of the movement has been anti-Israel organizations cleverly named to sound Jewish, like Jewish Voice For Peace, AKA “Hamas Voice For Pretending To Be Jewish.” Unsurprisingly, they’re funded by Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Open Society Foundations, Tides Center, and Benjamin Fund. Their mission? To drive a wedge into the American Jewish community and weaken US support for Israel.
IfNotNow is another organization with a Jewish facade, funded by Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and FMEP — financier of Al-Haq, which is linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a violent terrorist group known for hijacking planes and taking passengers hostage. Yeah, not so Jewish after all.
The US-based anti-Israel NGO network is an effective tool in the war against Israel, in numerous ways:
- Indoctrinating, radicalizing, and recruiting American youth as useful idiots to enlarge the global image of the anti-Israel psyop
- Pressuring Western politicians to cut their support for Israel, to weaken Israel militarily and financially
- Escalating international pressure on the Israeli government to surrender its wars against Hamas and Hezbollah, rather than defeat them
- Attacking the Israeli economy via Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) campaigns
- Normalizing anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda narratives through mass repetition and by integrating them into popular unrelated virtue-signal narratives
- Disrupting and preventing Jewish community gatherings in American cities by intimidating and attacking people attending cultural and religious events and using pressure campaigns to cancel comedy shows and concerts
- Using fear to suppress public expressions of support for Israel and Jews
- Trying to break the morale of the Israeli population as it recovers from the mass murder and kidnapping of their people, by sending the message: “the world hates you”
The Horse’s Mouth#
Beyond the shared financial ties, it’s also interesting to notice the mirroring of rhetoric between the Western anti-Israel movement, the anti-government movement in Israel, and Hamas. Hamas’ propaganda team consistently takes opportunities to specifically inject anti-Bibi propaganda into its narratives. Despite their stated goal to kill every Jew and destroy the entire nation of Israel, they are apparently very focused on tarnishing Netanyahu’s image, however they can.
When Hamas held a ceremony to parade the coffins of the Bibas children and their mother, whom they kidnapped and killed on Oct. 7, they did so in front of a mural depicting a demonic-looking Netanyahu as the person who killed them.
While the Israel anti-government movement can’t make statements at the same level of absurdity as Hamas, they have interestingly echoed the same general message, seizing the opportunity to blame Bibi for hostage deaths and continued captivity, based on a false implicit premise that Hamas has stood ready to release them under reasonable terms.
When Hamas rejected Israel’s most recent April 2025 proposal for a 45-day ceasefire and hostage release, their public response was “We will not accept partial deals that serve Netanyahu’s political agenda.”
When Bibi fired former Shin Bet director Ronen Bar in March 2025, Hamas made a public statement about it saying it “proves Netanyahu’s unwillingness to negotiate,” directly connecting into the narratives of the anti-Bibi movement.
This overall picture suggests that each of Israel’s greatest enemies strongly agrees on Benjamin Netanyahu being a threat that must be eliminated. It indicates that they collectively feel they cannot get what they want as long as he is in charge.
Politics is a complicated show of smoke and mirrors — it’s hard to decipher what the true motives of any politician are, and it’s very easy to speculate on them. But we must ask ourselves: If the narratives are true, that Netanyahu is destroying Israeli society, would Israel’s enemies be so keen to remove him from power? If we know that these narratives are being spread by Israel’s enemies, should we believe them? What does it mean if those who hate Israel and want to destroy it see Netanyahu as a major threat and primary target; so much so that they’re willing to dedicate immense resources to take him down?
Elephants In The Room#
There are many related subjects worth exploring that are outside the scope of this piece. I will acknowledge them briefly with a bullet point each.
- The roles of Iran, Russia, Qatar, and China in the information war against Israel
- The article I wrote a year ago, where I hypothesized that the Russians were most likely behind what we are seeing today. My perspective has significantly changed: Russia has the history, know-how, and infrastructure to be conducting this psychological war and might be involved, but they cannot be the primary player.
- The many other social and political projects that USAID, Ford, Rockefeller, OSF, and Tides are backing via the same NGO model
- The massive role Israeli and international media networks are playing in spreading NGO narratives, influencing Israelis and Westerners alike
Zooming Out#
Mapping the money networks behind the kinetic and psychological war against Israel reveals a coherent multi-pronged strategy at play. Its apparent aim is to generate maximum pressure on Israeli society and government, in order to subvert its democracy to create regime change.
The combination of a divided society, a highly-funded, professionalized, and relentless anti-government protest movement, a weakened and distracted military, a terrorist attack more brutal than anything seen in modern history, a population in daily anguish mourning its dead and praying for its kidnapped, a coordinated international display of animosity and hatred, violence towards Jewish diaspora communities, and a prolonged multi-front military conflict should be enough to cause almost any nation, and its leadership, to crumble. The most amazing part of this whole story is that Israeli society and its democratic system are somehow still standing.
From my Jewish perspective, fighting for Israel is about sovereignty, safety, and the continuation of our ancient heritage and traditions. It is rare for a culture to survive for thousands of years without expanding its numbers via colonialism or forced conversions. We did the opposite — decolonization of our native land and making conversion as hard as possible. Our culture is a rare gem worth preserving.
History has taught us what can happen when we are subjects of regimes that don’t care about us or treat us with hostility; whether in Europe, the Middle East, North and East Africa, the Balkans, or anywhere else.
The fight is not only about defending against enemy nations or terrorists. We must fight just as hard against those who are subverting us from within. War occurs both in the physical space and the mental space and I believe the human mind is the most dangerous weapon of war.
This is what defending Israel is about. It is worth everything and it will take everything.
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