Unequivocally the best news for Israel and civilisation since October 7, and the most urgent

During the 2016 US Presidential campaign, then Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump was wont to read out loud the following poem:

On her way to work one morning,
Down the path alongside the lake,
A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake.
His pretty-colored skin had been all frosted with the dew.
“Oh well,” she cried, “I’ll take you in and I'll take care of you.”
“Take me in oh tender woman,
“Take me in, for heaven's sake,
“Take me in, oh tender woman,” sighed the snake.

She wrapped him up all cozy in a curvature of silk
And then laid him by the fireside with some honey and some milk .
Now she hurried home from work that night as soon as she arrived.
She found that pretty snake she’d taken in had been revived.
“Take me in, oh tender woman ,
“Take me in, for heaven’s sake,
“Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake.

Now she clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried.
“But if I hadn’t brought you in by now you might have died.”
Now she stroked his pretty skin and then she kissed and held him tight .
But instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite.
“Take me in, oh tender woman,
“Take me in, for heaven’s sake,
“Take me in oh tender woman,” sighed the snake.

“I saved you,” cried that woman.
“And you've bit me even, why?
“You know your bite is poisonous and now I’m going to die.”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin,
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in,
”Take me in, oh tender woman,
“Take me in, for heaven’s sake,
“Take me in oh tender woman,“ sighed the snake.

Readers may recognise it as The Snake, a song written by civil rights organiser Oscar Brown in 1963. This allegorical tale of a naïve woman who embraces a serpent, Trump interpreted as a cautionary tale on the perils of uncontrolled immigration. And the uncontrolled immigration that most closely fits this allegory has been the mass illegal immigration into Western Europe and North America under the guise of "refugees seeking asylum" purportedly from the insecurity of life in the Middle East, the heartland of Islam.

This past week, now Republican President Donald J. Trump has been touring the Middle East, where the region's most notorious prophet, one who prided himself on his capacity to deceive, is reported to have invoked several snake metaphors. One, in particular, his hosts are unlikely to have informed him of:

Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert to being strange just as it started, and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole. (Sahih Muslim 146)

"Between the two mosques," for readers who are not familiar, means between Mecca and Medina, and by extension, (Saudi) Arabia. One of Donald Trump's greatest weaknesses is his susceptibility to flattery. One of the Arabs greatest propensities is to flatter. And there, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Trump was flattered like nothing anyone has ever seen before. It was some terrific flattery. It was flattery so tremendous that it opened his heart and his chequebook. WIDE.

The US President signed ostentatious deals with Saudi Arabia, consulted the oracle at Ankara, and urged the Middle East's latest shape-shifting djinni, Abu Mohammad Al-Julani, aka Ahmed Al-Shara'a, to:

Sign the Abraham Accords and normalise relations with Israel, tell all “foreign terrorists” to leave his country, “deport Palestinian terrorists,” help the U.S. prevent ISIS’ resurgence and take over responsibility of “ISIS detention centers in Northeast Syria.” (Forbes)

Oh, dear! Israel might have something to say about this. Mr Trump clearly has no idea what jihad is. Of course a life-long blood-thirsty terrorist who just a few months ago had a $10 million bounty on his head is going to "sign the Abraham Accords and normalise relations with Israel, tell all “foreign terrorists” to leave his country, “deport Palestinian terrorists,” help the U.S. prevent ISIS’ resurgence and take over responsibility of “ISIS detention centres in Northeast Syria” and "do a great job for the Syrian people.” It's the art of the deal.

When Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) in May 2018, he did so on the grounds that it was a bad deal. He was right, it was. The problem was not that President Obama had agreed to a bad deal, as Trump asserted, but that he had agreed a deal at all. Deals, negotiations, win-win, meeting each other halfway, etc., are all alien to the way Muslims (and Chinese) make their way through the world. They continue to pursue after the "agreement" is signed and fully expect the other side to be doing the same. A "deal" means something completely different in the East to what it means in the West. If you sign an agreement on the understanding that everything will henceforth proceed as stipulated in the agreement, you will be in for a very rough time. The Chinese do the same thing, only on steroids.

Israel, unfortunately, complains endlessly about agreements being "violated", while the Muslims they have signed the agreements with are amazed that the Israelis, and Western parties in general, stick to the agreements. For so long as the West then only "urges Iran to come back into compliance," they'll be cranking up their "non-compliance" to the max. Donald Trump imagines that he can negotiate "a good deal" with the Iranians, failing to understand that there is no such thing as a deal with the Iranians. If you want them to do or not do something, then there is only one way: in the very first instance, they must lose more by defying you than they would retain by not defying you. Donald Trump gained massive leverage over the Iranians when he killed Qassim Soleimani, and now he is throwing it all away by wanting to make a deal, thereby placing himself in exactly the same position as Barack Obama.

One imagines Trump's encouragement of Al-Julani “to do a great job for the Syrian people,” being translated into several Arabic dialects one after the other, each time leaving the Syrian President more perplexed than before. Clearly, something wasn't getting through the translations. A resourceful aide might then step forward and whisper, "Mr Te-rump says, 'Be smart with how you spend his money on jihad'." Al-Julani then takes on the confident air of a man in a suit. One might even say he looks more presidential.

What do Arab Muslim leaders do with the money they don't take for themselves? That's right. They lavish it on jihad. Arab Muslim societies are extremely hierarchical societies built on plunder economies, i.e., they live off what they can take from non-Muslims. Historically, it's all to do with nomadic barbarism. They formalised this plunder economy into "a complete way of life" and called it Islam. Long story short, first they plundered caravans, to which they shortly thereafter added Jews, Christians, Mandaeans and Zoroastrians in neighbouring settlements, after which they expanded to plundering on the high seas and in distant infidel lands, until the West was again able to resist them and their plundering fell back on their by then already thoroughly-immiserated Jews and Christians. There being nothing left to plunder, they sank ever deeper into poverty, too spoilt in their ignorance to know how to develop productive economies and too backward to care.

Relief came when they found oil beneath their feet and they could resume plundering, only this time of themselves, for they knew no other way of doing things. They consumed conspicuously, imported slaves, idled their populations and bankrolled jihad. Those that had no oil (or gas) always made sure that the leaders consumed conspicuously. Now relief comes to Syria in the form of American dollars, right after loads of Euros. Alhamdulillah! Alhamdulillah!

Airforce 1 delivered US President after US President into this object lesson, each unshakeably convinced that he is going to succeed where all before him have failed: solve the "Middle East problem". In addition to their unshakeable conviction in the inevitability of their success, they have something else in common: none of them had the foggiest idea of how the Arab Muslim's mind works. It was not necessary to know, because they already had the answer. And a billionaire, twice-President, real estate mogul will not be told that deals cannot be made here, not after his Gift to mankind is The Art of the Deal. Is he not himself living proof on this earth of the Truth of the Deal? He knows all that he needs to know. They, on the contrary, know how exactly how Trump's minds works, and flattery does not come bigger than a luxury Qatari 747 Airforce 1.

So who is deceiving whom? Who is playing whom? The Arab Muslims are certainly playing Donald Trump. He is an American President, after all. But are Trump and Netanyahu perhaps playing the Arabs? The Right hopes so. The Left fears so. Left-wing mischief-makers have gone into overdrive pushing the narrative that Trump has thrown Israel under the bus, especially after cutting a deal with the Houthis behind Israel's back (or so it seemed), and this right after a Houthi missile slammed into the ground just outside Ben Gurion Airport. Right-wing Israelis are dismayed, some putting a brave face on it, saying, Trump is the President of the United states, not of Israel.

There is more significance to this statement than those who made it might have realised at the time. For indeed, Donald trump is not the leader of Israel; Benjamin Netanyahu is, and to turn that fact from formality into substance vis-à-vis the United States requires the independent ability to, as the Americans say, "kick ass," an ability the military and security establishment have spent decades disabling, expressly to ensure dependence on the United States. And so it came to pass on 12 May 2025, that JewishInsider reported the best and most urgent news for Israel and civilisation since the Palestinian Arabs' October 7 massacre:

Israel needs to begin the move towards ending its reliance on U.S. military aid, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Sunday.

Regular readers of Murtadd to Human will recall our frustration with Caroline Glick urging Israelis to pin their hopes on President Trump promising to restore arms shipments to Israel after President Biden had blocked them. She said:

And, you know, and President Trump has promised he's going to end the arms embargo.

To which we responded:

No! Wrong! Dead wrong! This is sliding right back into the pathetic helplessness of the Jew kicked around in the old Yishuv. Cling to the hope that a great, benevolent outside lord will keep his promise to take pity on us. This is dire. The lesson since 1973, brought home at catastrophic cost since 7 October, is that we must assume that the arms embargo will continue, even be intensified. Start from there, rather than fall right back on a foreign president’s promise.

Start from there will be no arms shipments. "Israel needs to begin the move towards ending its reliance on U.S. military aid." The move has already begun, on 7 October, inside the hearts and minds of Israelis. They are well-ahead of their Prime Minister in that they are openly demanding the Jewish resettling of Gaza, while the Prime Minister offers only the vaguest of hints, such as naming the latest security corridor after one of the demolished Jewish communities, Morag.

Let us leave that aside. With two generations of Americans and Europeans turned against their own countries, cultural heritage and Western civilisation, their finances under strain and their armed forces physically dismantled and ideologically degraded to the point of ineffectiveness, all this while they have suffered a decade of mass invasion by military-age Muslim men, and now the most feared US President reduced to a golden marshmallow in the heat of Arabian flattery, it is not at all far-fetched that Israel could end up the Masada of Western Civilisation. There are few left who will unequivocally defend the West. Jihad means they want us all, the Jews first. We are ready to fight to save us all, the Jews first. And here Israel misses a critical opportunity.

"They hate us just because we're Jewish" is a romantic and tragic notion, and it is also false. It is not even coherent. If it is maintained that first they'll come for the Jews, then they'll come for everyone else, then they cannot be coming for you because you're Jewish. They're coming for you, and everybody else, because you are not them. Muslims are commanded to fight those who are not Muslim, even if they single out Jews for particular hatred. If Jews are the last ones to defend civilisation, then other in the sights of jihad, such as Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Druze, Buddhists, secularists, and especially former Muslims, all have very good reason to fight alongside the Jews. Guard against the interfaith temptations of peaceful Muslims. They will sing kumbaya with you, but they will not fight with you. When the real Muslims come, those they call "Islamists" and "extremists," the peaceful Muslims will slink away and worse.

All this means giving up the chauvinist notion of "they hate us just because we're Jewish" and be ready, armed to the teeth, to lead all who would fall victim to jihad. It is one hell of a responsibility, but then, you are the chosen people.

Communism and Islam have made common cause and it is worth reminding ourselves of George Orwell's prescient insight:

…Against that …world in which black may be white tomorrow, …there are in reality only two safeguards. One is that however much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing, as it were, behind your back, and you consequently can’t violate it… The other is that so long as some parts of the earth remain unconquered, the liberal tradition can be kept alive. Let Fascism, or possibly even a combination of several Fascisms, conquer the whole world, and those two conditions no longer exist. (Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War, 1943.) (My emphasis)

October 7 has shown us but a hint of the cruelty that awaits us should either Islam or Communism prevail, chillingly encapsulated by Orwell in his dying days:

A boot stamping on a human face—forever.

Picture credits:

White House - Karoline Leavitt in X, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=165214079

Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)

The Australian Women's Weekly - The Australian Women's Weekly, Oct 22, 1938, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=141004530

https://matzav.com/iran-vows-to-hurt-israel-for-deadly-strike-on-its-syria-embassy/

Comments:

On 18 May 2025 at 15:14, Ben Dor A. wrote:

Dear Anjuli Pandavar

Thank you for posting this essay.

I doubt if anyone in the Trump administration will pay attention. I will share it.

Anyway, I would like to refer to the following paragraph:

What do Arab Muslim leaders do with the money they don't take for themselves? That's right. They lavish it on jihad. Arab Muslim societies are extremely hierarchical societies built on plunder economies, i.e., they live off what they can take from non-Muslims. Historically, it's all to do with nomadic barbarism. They formalised this plunder economy into "a complete way of life" and called it Islam. Long story short, first they plundered caravans, to which they shortly thereafter added Jews, Christians, Mandaeans and Zoroastrians in neighbouring settlements, after which they expanded to plundering on the high seas and in distant infidel lands, until the West was again able to resist them and their plundering fell back on their by then already thoroughly-immiserated Jews and Christians. There being nothing left to plunder, they sank ever deeper into poverty, too spoilt in their ignorance to know how to develop productive economies and too backward to care.

Isn't this exactly what the Europeans did before and after the inception of Christianity, then Islam?

Regretfully, it still goes on even though the world has decided to establish an organization called the UN with an UNSC. 😂😂

We know how "useful" this organization is.

Best Regards
Ben Dor A.

On 19 May 2025 at 9:12, Anjuli Pandavar wrote:

Thank you for your comment. To your question: "Isn't this exactly what the Europeans did before and after the inception of Christianity, then Islam?"

There is quite a lot in the quoted paragraph and I'm not sure what "this" refers to. If you can clarify. I'll offer a response.

Best regards,
Anjuli