Israeli military operations deserve scrutiny, but media coverage has more often than not treated the Jewish state unfairly.

In Steven Spielberg’s film Munich, the mysterious “Papa” tells Avner, the reluctant Mossad assassin: “The world has been rough with you, with your tribe. It’s right to respond roughly to such treatment.”

Israel’s response to the October 2023 Hamas-led massacres and kidnappings of over one thousand civilians, as well as to missile and drone attacks from Iran and its regional militias, has been vigorous, and it has been rough.