frames the Jihadist struggle not as a battle between rival political ideologies but as a cosmic contest between belief and unbelief—or, in Zawahiri’s words, “between Islam and the infidels.” In such a battle, no one can remain neutral. Every Muslim has a duty to respond to the call of jihad, to rally under the banner of Islam, to come to its defense, and to join in a cosmic war whose epicenter lies here, in Israel, at the nexus of nationalist and transnationalist identities,
