I've wasted too much of my life being afraid of Iran.

When I was in college, we protested, rallied, and fought against the idea of a nuclear Iran and Ahmadinejad.

I've watched Bibi in too many UN speeches talking about how bad, how disastrous it would be. It would be. There's no question about that.

I've lived moment to moment, waiting for a massive attack from our enemies, for weeks on end.

Calculating when it might happen, and how, and if we would survive.

Wondering what provisions we would need if a full-on tit-for-tat war began. Preparing with medicines, food, generators, and water.

I have held my children, nieces, and nephews in bomb shelters while rockets and missiles rained down on us.

I've also walked out of those shelters into an unchanged world, but a world filled anew with a deep sense of gratitude to our air force, defenses, allies, and God-given miracles.

So much time. So much energy.

And my body absolutely reacted to the stress. I've been breathing through the last two years.

Nightmares about the worst-case scenarios. And since Oct 7th, we've already seen what evil looks like up close.

We've been living with it in our faces all this time.

So- no. I'm not going to let myself live in fear anymore.

Because you can only threaten a people for so long before we stop flinching.

We’ve learned that fear doesn’t keep us safe - courage does.

Unity does. Purpose does. Faith does.

Israelis were never built for victimhood.

We were built for resistance, for rebuilding, for life.

So if Iran wants to get ready, I suggest they do.

We are stronger than they can imagine.

We’ll keep living, defending, building, and rising.

That's the thing about antisemitism. It doesn't erase Jews.

They may hate us, threaten us, attack us, or lie about us.

But it never changes who we are, but only motivates us to be more Jewish. More Israeli. More unified.

So deep breaths, friends.

It might be a bumpy ride.

Or we might see revealed miracles soon enough.

Either way, we'll be ready too.

Only God is in control.

Am Yisrael Chai.