-Friday World -March 3, 2026
This image has been repeated so relentlessly that people around the world have come to believe it is the only face of terror.
→ But the truth is far more complex — and far more dangerous.
The real masterminds of terrorism often sit in tailored suits and polished boots, crisp white shirts and silk ties, inside high-security meeting rooms, on press-conference stages, or behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. These are the people who never pull a trigger themselves — yet they give birth to small terrorist groups, fund them, supply weapons, provide intelligence, run training camps, and then appear before the world cameras declaring themselves the strongest warriors “against terrorism.”
→ The Trump–Netanyahu duo is one of the clearest and most current examples.
Both leaders repeatedly brand Iran as “the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,” pointing fingers at its proxies: Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis.
Sanctions, drone strikes, cyber warfare, regime-change operations — everything is justified under the banner of “counter-terrorism.”
→ But one question refuses to go away: Is proxy politics practiced only by one side? Look at a few pages from history:
→ The United States armed and trained mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets
— the very same forces later evolved into al-Qaeda.
→ Israel has faced repeated allegations of indirectly supporting various militias in Syria and Lebanon to weaken rival powers.
→ Ongoing operations in Gaza — presented as “eliminating Hamas” — have killed thousands of children and women. Is this not large-scale violence that plants seeds of revenge for generations?
→ Innocent civilians killed in drone strikes are routinely dismissed as “collateral damage.”
→ Why this glaring double standard? When a leader in a suit does it
→ it is called a “strategic decision.” When someone else does exactly the same
→ it is labeled “state-sponsored terrorism.”
The media enthusiastically promotes only one version of the story — because the biggest players either own the media or are its biggest funders.
Trump, you promised “America First,” but have your Middle East policies actually brought peace — or only more chaos?
Netanyahu, how many times has the definition of “proportionate response” been quietly rewritten in the name of Israel’s security?
→ Your recent meetings — handshakes, smiles, photo-ops — are packaged as proof of a “strong alliance.”
In reality, these very handshakes can — and often do — sow even greater instability across an already burning region.
Today the world is waking up. On social media people are asking uncomfortable questions out loud:
→ Is the terrorist wearing a suit and boots less dangerous?
→ Is it morally correct to whitewash state-sponsored violence by simply calling it “war”?
→ Does destroying millions of lives under the slogan of “democracy and freedom” suddenly stop being terrorism?
If terrorism is ever to be uprooted at its source, the first step is simple — and painful:
→ Look inside your own house first.
→ Stop manufacturing proxy groups.
→ End the double standards.
→ Stop calling the deaths of innocents “collateral.”
Because as long as powerful leaders — whether through direct funding or deliberate policy choices — continue giving birth to smaller terrorists, there will never be anything called peace in this world.
This is the moment to speak the plain truth. This is the moment to expose the terrorism dressed in suits — the kind that smiles warmly, shakes hands firmly, and plants the roots of violence from behind the curtain.
Terrorism has no single face.
It wears many masks.
And the most dangerous mask of all is the one that refuses to appear when you look in the mirror.
Sajjadali Nayani ✍
Friday World -March 3, 2026
