When Jews were being slaughtered in Europe and Russia, they didn’t invade anyone, they went home, they bought land, legally. The region had no sovereign state at the time, only centuries of occupation under foreign empires. They drained swamps, built cities, created infrastructure, and that success attracted migrants, from Egypt, from the Levant, from the Arabian Peninsula, who came seeking opportunity in the land they were reviving. When the Ottoman occupation ended, everyone in the region got a state. The Maronites in the north got Lebanon. The Hashemites got Jordan. Iraq was born. Syria too. So Jews asked for one state, just one, but they were told no. They still agreed to share the land, even though they were offered the worst half, mostly desert. Their neighbors still said no. Then came 1948. Five Arab armies invaded to wipe them out. They fought, survived and won. Then they offered peace again, but the Arabs answered with the Three No’s of Khartoum: No peace. No recognition. No negotiations. Arabs tried again in 1967 to destroy them. Jews survived again. They captured more land, not out of ambition, but necessity. But when peace was possible, they gave land back. They returned Sinai to Egypt. They withdrew from Southern Lebanon. They offered to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank. They offered the Palestinians everything they asked for in 2000. Yet, Palestinians walked away. In 2005, they unilaterally withdrew from Gaza. In return they got rockets, terror tunnels, kidnapped civilians. Then came October 7, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Civilians slaughtered, babies burned, women raped. So I ask: What do you want them to do? Because “Never Again” means never again. You don’t get to massacre their people and then cry about the consequences. You don’t get to raise your children to hate them and then blame them when war comes. They will not apologize for surviving, they will not apologize for fighting back. Never Again means Never Again.