After weeks of comparative calm, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has once again collapsed. The collapse was inevitable — with reports that Hamas was both refusing to release any hostages and rejecting all American proposals that would continue the ceasefire — and along with the inevitable collapse, we have the inevitable return of the propaganda war.

Predictably, Israel is being vilified for doing what any nation must do: defend itself against an enemy that has no interest in peace, no interest in releasing hostages and no interest in putting an end to ongoing attacks against Israel.

But, as it was before, during and after Oct. 7, in the eyes of much of the West, Hamas bears no responsibility for its actions. Every Israeli airstrike against Hamas is branded an “escalation.” Every Hamas member killed is treated as a civilian casualty — with media figures happily spewing Hamas reports that are (to put it mildly) unreliable. Even the siege of Gaza — which remains a Hamas stronghold — is condemned as unlawful, despite it being quite the opposite.

The deck is stacked: Israel is always guilty, Hamas is always innocent, and the so-called international order is far too happy to sit back, tweet “war is bad” and make excuses for those whose one goal in life is to murder every Jew on the planet.

The usual chorus of online critics is far too happy to sit back and call for Israel to just wait for the next pogrom.

This logic is not just flawed; it’s suicidal. No nation in the world would tolerate this kind of existential threat on its borders, and yet, when Israel does what any sovereign state would do, the cries of “disproportionate response” ring out, as if war should be waged on a points system rather than as a fight for survival.

Worse, the moral calculations of Israel’s critics are fundamentally broken. If Hamas chooses to launch attacks from civilian areas, use civilians as human shields, and embed military assets within hospitals and schools, the blame for any civilian casualties lies squarely at their feet.

Not to mention the fact that this war could end tomorrow if Hamas released the hostages.

For decades, the West has indulged the fantasy that peace can be brokered between a democratic state and a genocidal terrorist organization while blaming the predictable lack of peace on the side that actually wants peace: Israel.

And for those who demand Israel cease airstrikes, citing the obvious and undeniable fact that civilian casualties are tragic, they should explain: What should Israel do?

If you don’t have a viable alternative that ensures Israeli security, then your condemnation is nothing but the same feckless virtue-signaling that put us in this situation in the first place.

History has shown that winning a war comes at a high price. These days, it seems like the price is always too high, even if the alternative is losing to a horde of barbarians who want to drag us back into the Dark Ages.

No war can be won if the enemy is shielded from responsibility or defeat. Israel knows this. It’s time the rest of the world caught up.

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