ELDER OF ZIYON
Why Israel can’t just “wrap up this war”
Karen Bekker
September 22, 2025

My colleagues at CAMERA and I have spent the past two years responding to a tsunami of lies about Israel, beginning in the immediate aftermath of October 7, 2023, with the claim that Israel caused the attack on itself. Then there was the claim that Israel attacked Al Ahli hospital, killing hundreds of people; the claim that Israel intentionally targeted World Central Kitchen aid workers; the claim that Israeli snipers were shooting Palestinian children in the head; and the starvation and genocide libels, including the absurd claims that 83 percent of casualties were civilians and that 14,000 babies were imminently about to die of starvation. It’s exhausting. It would be tempting for me to say that no one wants Israel to end the war more than I do. But I’m pretty sure that every single IDF soldier fighting in Gaza, not to mention the wives and mothers of those soldiers, wants Israel to conclude a lot more than I want it. Certainly, those with actual skin in the game want that more than Megyn Kelly, who said on her September 16 podcast that “Israel needs to wrap up this war. READ MORE