After Hizbullah’s rocket fire from Lebanon aimed at Israel was halted on November 27, 2024, and 12 days of battle in Iran ended last June 24, and after a ceasefire was declared in Gaza last October 10, and then the bombing of Israel by Yemeni missiles ceased, it was reasonable to assume Israel’s most recent war was over.
That would be a considerable over-simplification, however. In the last two years, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has often mentioned fighting a seven-front war. That war never ended for a single day, even when traditional battlefield conditions had pauses. Moreover, there are other parties, like Turkey, eager to lead the Islamist anti-Israel crusade.
The Iranian regime and its regional allies and proxies have been hyper-actively engaged in re-arming for the next round.
According to Israel’s Security Agency (Shin Bet), 25 people were arrested last year for spying for Iran. The number of spying incidents quadrupled in 2025 over 2024, which in turn was four times as many incidents as in 2023.
Arrests for terrorism-related incidents are increasing:
219 Arab Israelis were arrested last year (40 belonged to, or worked for, ISIS)
129 Arab Israelis were arrested in eastern Jerusalem
2,530 Arabs were arrested in Judea-Samaria (the so-called West Bank), where fighting is ongoing.
Increasingly, drones that evade radar detection are being used to smuggle guns into Israel from Egypt and Jordan. Estimates are that 116,000 guns and grenades are smuggled into Israel each year. Last October, Israel’s KAN News reported that there have been “tens of thousands” of drone incursions.
The smuggling business is lucrative. Israel discovered and destroyed 100 illegal tunnels from Egypt into Gaza in the last two years. They were controlled by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s son Mahmoud, who enriched himself collecting millions of dollars in fees for allowing goods and weapons to get through and reach Hamas and Gaza’s tribal clans.
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) is a non-profit organization exposing the Palestinian Authority’s support for terrorists, hate-promotion and antisemitism.
It is one example among thousands of Israeli companies, agencies and individuals who have become victims of a sustained, years’-long campaign of cyberattacks. Financial, medical and other personal and commercial files have been stolen or deleted by hackers and digital vandals.
The sources of the attacks are typically China, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia. Attacks on PMW have risen 650 percent in the past year.
Meanwhile, there has been an organized Arab program of land expropriation across ancient biblical Judea-Samaria. Some 642 acres (260 hectares) of land have been stolen, on which 30,000 structures have been built illegally, some of them 20 stories high.
Much of the funding comes from the European Union, which is determined to claim the “West Bank” for Arabs alone, a de facto Palestinian state.
Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks of Israel’s war on multiple fronts. There are additional fronts beyond the borders. The weekly anti-Israel protests worldwide, the boycott-Israel movement, the political ostracization of Israel, and the news media’s anti-Israel agenda are all areas where Israel must fight a daily battle against lies, deceit and hatred.
The intensity and regularity of the attacks have crossed a threshold: Jew-hatred has become normalized.
There was a time, 80 years ago, when world leaders declared, “Never again,” referring to preventing antisemitism from arising again.
Today, reverential words are still spoken about Jews who perished in the Holocaust, but recent history proves the words “Never again” are not underscored by actions. Friends of the Jewish people, and Jews themselves, know that Jew-hatred is “ever again.” They might add, “God help us!” That is more than colloquial parlance; it is a declaration of assurance.