The headlines followed the familiar pattern: maximum outrage, minimum context.
- Switzerland’s Blick: “Militant Palestinians surrender and are shot dead!”
- Germany’s Taz: “Execution with eyewitnesses,” claiming Israeli soldiers killed “two unarmed men” in the “Israeli-occupied West Bank.”
- EuroNews was no less suggestive: “Israel’s army apparently kills two men in Jenin who had surrendered.”
All these headlines push the same narrative: Israel as executioner, Palestinians as victims, with zero attempt to place the incident in the reality of a highly dangerous counter-terror operation in one of the region’s most lethal combat zones.
But here’s the question no one really wants to hear, yet it cuts to the core: What would YOU say if it were your own son standing there as a soldier?
Yes, there are rules, orders, and clear engagement procedures. But on October 7, thousands of families trusted exactly those chains, and they snapped in horrific, unimaginable ways. I told my own sons during the war only one thing:...
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