In parallel with neutralizing Iran, the most critical task at hand is to dismantle the Palestinian narrative that has taken root in our land and poisons global opinion against us. The fabricated identity it promotes is designed to erase our national identity, serving as a step toward our physical destruction.

Iran's hermetic front surrounding Israel posed an undeniable existential threat. Yahya Sinwar's misstep in attacking Israel without coordination with other fronts allowed us to brilliantly dismantle the Shiite axis, a mortal danger, even without addressing the nuclear issue. The internal enemy in Judea, Samaria, and among some Arab citizens of Israel acted as a force multiplier for the surrounding fronts. A coordinated attack by all these fronts, alongside an eruption of tens of thousands of armed individuals from within, presented a challenge that it's uncertain the drowsy and negligent IDF and Shin Bet on the eve of war could have adequately handled.

We must recall that this internal enemy is a creation of the State of Israel itself. The tens of thousands of militants referred to as the "Palestinian Police," trained as a fully-fledged military force, were armed by Israel as part of the Oslo Accords. This dubious proxy, meant to fight terror "without interference from the Supreme Court or B'Tselem," has instead become a threat to us. Add to this the "battalions" of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants. The establishment of the Gaza front, which has exacted a terrible price from us, began as a consequence of the Oslo concessions.

The damage caused by the Palestinian Authority (PA) far exceeds the sum of its armed operatives. From its inception, the PA has poisoned minds. Children from kindergarten age are raised in a jihadist education system where Israel is erased from maps. It preaches the obligation to "liberate" Jaffa, Haifa, and Ashkelon. Arithmetic lessons involve counting murdered Israelis, and the ultimate aspiration is to die as a shahid (martyr). When Hamas seized control of Gaza, it didn't alter the PA's inciting curriculum. The killers who burned children alive in the south of Israel were educated using the PA's textbooks.

Today, the PLO flag symbolizes nationalistic antisemitism, the form it has taken in our era.

Graduates of this education system—terrorists from Gaza and Judea and Samaria—receive hefty salaries from the PA, including Hamas's Nukhba fighters and their families. Israeli Arab terrorists receive even higher sums, part of the PA's strategy to incite Israel's Arab citizens against the state. This includes fostering extremist leaders, broadcasting incitement, and encouraging studies at hate-filled universities in the West Bank, attended by some 15,000 Israeli Arabs.

The PA is also responsible for much of the international boycotts and campaigns against Israel. It is a hostile entity undermining Israel worldwide, educating and rewarding terrorists, making it a fundamental source of terror.

The greatest harm caused by the Palestinian narrative is the invention of an imaginary people with "justice" on their side and a land called "Palestine." These were fabricated before 1967 as a tool to claim Israel's pre-1967 territory and invert the moral scale: replacing tiny David-like Israel against the Arab Goliath with a fabricated Palestinian David against an alleged Israeli Goliath.

This narrative has been embraced by Israel's enemies worldwide. "Palestine" has become a code word for Israel's destruction, and the PLO flag has replaced the swastika as the symbol of racial antisemitism, which in the 19th century succeeded religious antisemitism symbolized by the cross. Today, the PLO flag symbolizes nationalistic antisemitism, the form it has taken in our era. This flag unites a variety of opponents, all sharing a common antisemitic denominator: extreme left and right, Sunnis and Shiites, progressives and fascists. The dregs of the world rally under the PLO flag, joined by self-hating Jews.

In tandem with neutralizing Iran, the most pressing mission is to eradicate the Palestinian narrative entrenched in our land and poisoning global opinion against us. This fabricated identity aims to erase our national identity as a step toward our physical destruction.

The notion of establishing another nation-state, following the collapse of artificial Arab states in the Middle East, suffered a major blow this week. In 2015, Mahmoud Abbas stated that Pan-Arabism, symbolized by a united Syria, is the backbone of the Palestinian issue, and preserving it requires maintaining Syria's unity. If Syria collapses, the Palestinian issue will follow suit. So let's move forward.

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This state is defined as Jewish because that is the purpose of its existence; the democratic aspect is merely the preferred form of government. This is the reason for the discriminatory Law of Return, which bestows Israeli citizenship on all people who are at least a quarter Jewish as soon as they make they aliyah but not to Arabs born in Hebron. The essence of this affirmative action is embodied in this law. The mandate afforded Jews exclusive national rights here, as compared to the religious and civil rights afforded to other communities.

The fact that Israel is a Jewish state has always been self-evident. But some Jews have recently begun to question the righteousness of the Zionist path.

Following his retirement, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak told a New Israel Fund conference he was in favor of a "state of all its citizens," thereby exposing the line behind his rulings, which eroded Zionism when he harmed the Jewish settlement enterprise. Barak also attempted to abolish the Nationality Law, passed in 1952, which prevented the state from being flooded with people from all over the world who marry Arab Israelis.

It is interesting that, as chief justice, Barak spoke of a "Jewish and democratic state," while concealing his true opinion, which he revealed only following his retirement. Barak's judicial coup included many post-Zionist measures, and his successors are continuing with this approach, shared by their progressive partners in the world, which equates nationalism with racism.

This same progressive fashion guides the rulings that thwart any attempt to expel illegal migrants, the destruction of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria for destruction's sake, the High Court of Justice's assistance in enabling the Bedouin takeover of the Negev and the court's outstanding responsiveness to petitions from Arabs and the Left. Such is the painful situation that demanded we legislate what once was obvious.

The nation-state law is an interesting test, a test of Zionism, reading comprehension and logic. Some of those crying out over the legislation have not read the law, others have read it and failed the basic logic test, and still others – the worst – have read it, understand it and have yet decided to use the law as political capital to incite and agitate by driving an unnecessary wedge between Jews and members of the Druze community, whose lives and rights are not impacted by the nation-state law.

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Hamas has adopted simple, efficient methods. It started with an ecological terrorist attack in which thousands of tires were set on fire in the hope that the thick smoke would disguise the attempts to breach the border. The smoke attracted media attention, but the infiltration itself was stopped. Now, Hamas is using the natural wind from the west to maneuver kites fitted with firebombs up and over the border. Although these kites are a primitive weapon, they cause fires in fields and woods, wreaking enormous havoc.

The government is standing by, helpless to stop this new tactic, because obviously Israel cannot shoot the "children" who operate these kites – and the Hamas murderers dream of presenting us as killers of children. So Israel is paralyzed and allowing the enemy to burn its fields. On Sunday, we were informed that the IDF will have developed technology to combat the kites within two weeks. If it weren't so personal, we might laugh.

Where did the idea of a proportional response come from? During Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Israel mostly allowed itself to respond to the attempts to murder its civilians merely by shooting down the missiles, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in sophisticated Iron Dome missiles to take down Hamas' primitive tin can explosives. The response did not put an end to the rocket fire. It was only toward the end of the operation, possibly because there were not enough defensive missiles, that the IDF started bringing down buildings in Gaza – and that did deter the enemy.

Back in 2002, Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank – in which the IDF reoccupied the territory that had been ceded to our Fatah "partners" under the Oslo Accords – started even before 130 Israelis lost their lives to terrorist attacks in a single month (March 2002), and after a year and a half of terrorist suicide bombings and shootings that had killed nearly 1,000 people.

It is not children who are burning our fields; it is Hamas and its backers. Treating the kites as an isolated problem is self-delusion and a way of avoiding the real issue. Israel should aim its response to the kites at the entity that controls Gaza. Hamas needs to pay a price.

We could hurt the Gaza economy as a response to the attacks on our property. But it would be better first to put an end to the absurdity of Israel supplying electricity, water and aid to Gaza while people there are trying to murder our citizens, breach our border, and burn our fields.

While all this is happening, Israeli captives and the bodies of two fallen soldiers are still being held in Gaza, and yet we continue to keep their power and water running. This insanity must stop. Why do we always take such pleasure in torturing ourselves before we start defending ourselves?

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The rationale was to "disengage." To disengage from Gaza and leave behind the problems, terrorism and the Arabs who live there. The Left jovially promised that we would now have legitimacy from the world to strike back at terrorism, without the burden of responsibility over a civilian population under our rule, as if we were talking about a neighboring country.

The international community did clap its hands in applause for a whole five minutes, before reverting to its customary condemnations. The shelling of Israel from Gaza began immediately after the withdrawal, border communities came under threat of violence and kidnappings, and the terror machine previously kept in check by the Israeli presence turned into a monster. Several months later, IDF soldier Gilad Schalit was abducted from an area which before the withdrawal had been fortified by IDF forces and Israeli communities and had since become a black hole.

The withdrawal put most of the Negev and the center of the country, even as far north as Haifa, within rocket range. Gaza became a full-scale war zone. There have been five rounds of fighting, three of them large, which have claimed the lives of hundreds of soldiers and cost Israeli taxpayers over 20 billion shekels. In an ironic twist, we learned last week that the Left and the Civil Administration still count the Arabs of Gaza in their demographic prognostications. Disengagement, indeed.

These results have taught Israelis an ongoing lesson about the Arabs' true intentions toward us, and that retreating to the 1967 borders will not eradicate the threat of terrorism or ease international pressure. Despite Israel's relinquishing every last inch of Gaza, the shooting from there has not abated and the world has not given Israel the legitimacy to pummel the terrorist elements operating there. Following Operation Cast Lead in 2009, the Goldstone Commission essentially concluded that Israel did not have a right to self-defense. To be sure, throughout the majority of Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Israel simply had to try shooting incoming rockets out of the sky. Woe unto those who concede and retreat.

The "March of Return" sponsored by Hamas is a clever attempt to breach the border and send hundreds of thousands of Arabs from Gaza streaming into Israel. Where are they "returning" to exactly? All of Gaza has already been given to them. In 2005, Ariel Sharon provided the first phase of the Arabs' 10-point plan to "liberate every inch of Palestinian territory" for free. The Arabs then launched the second phase: voluntarily agreeing to the 1967 borders, to the sound of the Left's applause. Lines of snipers and live fire stopped the jihadist rabble from flooding tiny Israel and entering the kibbutzim and the towns, even the homes of the high and mighty bleeding hearts. Will we never learn?

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