Open letter to the people of Israel as the new year unfolds
Yes, yes, I know you are not barbarians, but do you want to win against barbarians, or not? Go forth in audacious war, and hurt the Jihadist where it humiliates them.

My latest Op-ed in Arutz 7 Israel National News
Dear beloved people of Israel,
Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur 5785 found you at war.
It is a war that was inevitable, whether initiated by you or by your enemy. Yet, I implore you to defeat your enemy utterly. Compromising on this will prove fatal for you. Let me explain.
You are under enormous pressure from what you believe to be your ally and benefactor to fight this war only to get to compromise with your enemy, the forces of jihad. If your aim in this war is to “get to the negotiating table,” then you will be defeated, because this is the Middle East.
Not defeating your enemy is to leave your enemy victorious, and so yourself defeated. Every time you mowed the lawn (or “changed the equation”) in Gaza, you left Hamas stronger, because you defeated yourselves by not defeating Hamas. In their eyes, they humiliated you. Each time Hamas celebrated victory, you scoffed at their irrationality and delusion. Alas, it was you who were irrational and deluded. I will clarify.
Soon after 7 October last year, the question “What does victory look like?” seemed to be on everyone’s lips. The answers were serious in the beginning, e.g., “wipe out Hamas”, the kind of answer that was a good starting point. But the backsliding began straight after, underpinned by “You can’t defeat the ideology”, never identified, but always presented as an axiom. I am here to tell you that you have no choice but to defeat “the ideology”. This will be clear if you see the war the way your enemy sees it.
When Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the joint Houses of the US Congress in July, he briefly referred to the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan in World War II. This history is most relevant to the challenges you face, and it was a good move to bring it into the discussion. He touched on how these two totalitarian Powers were defeated, but disappointingly, skipped over what was most significant: defeating those enemies utterly and destroying their ideologies. Eighty years on from that victory, and we are still too squeamish to remind ourselves of what we had to do. Back then, we were clear.
Fortunately, there may be no need, this time, for a Dresden or a Hiroshima, before “the ideology” can be destroyed. Peculiar to the ideology currently across the frontline from you is a generalised seeking of death, unlike Kokka-Shinto, in which the honour to seek death was bestowed upon only a select few. This means that the ideology that drives the war in which you find yourselves now embroiled must be vulnerable to something other than the death of your enemy. This vulnerability you must find.
I encourage you to look at the long history of jihad and what constituted defeat for those engaged in it (I am assuming that by now, you know that the war against you is a jihad). Please keep international relations, geopolitics and conflict resolution out of it, for they are of no use in this instance. What are adherents of “the ideology” worldwide still reeling from to this day?
Place the history of jihad alongside any Friday sermon, khutbah, in which Israel (or prior to 1948, Palestine) was brought up. What leaps off the page is a universal anguish at Muslims having lost land that they had previously conquered in jihad. Of course, they will have been militarily defeated before losing territory. They recognised their defeat not in being vanquished in battle, but in being humiliated. There are many kinds of humiliation: getting your manhood blown off by a Jew-rigged pager is one of them; getting cornered or frog-marched by a woman or a dog is another; getting killed or captured underground is a third. A jihad army unable to defend Muslim territory is the ultimate humiliation, and the IRGC is the cockiest of all jihad armies.
Loss of “Muslim land” in Lebanon is the key to defeating the Iranian regime.
This is also why, if you want peace in Gaza, you cannot allow a Palestinian Arab administration...
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Picture credits:
Screenshot from https://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/05/the-last-muslim-king-in-spain/114961
Khaled al-Ahmad, Watan, 17 December 2023, https://www.watanserb.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-leader-of-Hamas-in-Gaza-Yahya-Sinwar-768x432.jpg
Screenshots from https://x.com/HamasAtrocities/status/1843585869061743042
Comments:
On 15 October 2024 at 15:14, Jalal Tagreeb wrote:
Dear Anjuli,
I have a different opinion regarding the action that Israel should take against Iran as a response to the Iranian attack on Israel. I think the best response that Israel can take is to:
1. Completely and thoroughly defeat and destroy Hezbollah. Re-occupy south Lebanon to erase Hezbollah's claimed liberation achievement in 2000 and fake victory in 2006. This is a big blow that Iran cannot afford. I think Israel is more than half the way to do that, it just needs to complete it. This is an excellent chance to let Iran withdraw its hands from the region and get more isolated.
2. Capture the Sinwar brothers and free the hostages. Yahya Sinwar must be neutralised (better captured alive and imprisoned in Israel perhaps in a very deep underground cell to be a victim of his own method). He has been on a long run and it is time to capture him. He is not a challenge, it is just a matter of time.
These are the two decisive victory conditions for Israel in my opinion and the best way to respond to Iran.
'For years, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah repeatedly claimed that "Israel is weaker than a spider's web" '
Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/09/24/nasrallah-is-trapped-by-his-own-false-propaganda/
But the spider has caught him in her web ... and wrapped him tight! Did he use the Quranic verse in the wrong context? It has already been explained to him, so, no need for him to re-explain it in his next speech ... no more yelling on TV! That is much better.
Jalal Tagreeb
On 15 October 2024 at 15:25, Ben Dor A. wrote:
Thank you Anjuli Pandavar
Hag Sukkot Sameach
I have shared this with many.
Let's hope that the message sinks in.
Best Regards
Ben Dor A.