Al Qaeda Strengthens, US Political Resolve Weakens
By Frank Salvato
July 13, 2007
Conventional wisdom is that whatever happens between Israel and radical Islam will also be the fate of Western nations, especially the United States. The continued appeasement of Hamas and Fatah by the Israeli government and its failure to thoroughly defeat Hezbollah in last summer's war validates the contention that without strong political resolve it is impossible to be victorious over radical Islamofascists. As Congress moves forward in its renewed attempt at forcing the US military out of Iraq we would be wise to examine Israel's current situation more carefully as it is a precursor of things to come.
DEBKAfile, a publication specializing in intelligence ignored by the mainstream media, reported (web site) that on July 8, 2007, Hamas and Fatah officials met in Stockholm to begin what should be a fairly expedited negotiation toward reconciling the differences that brought them to civil war in Gaza. The report stated that under the watchful eye of Iranian and Syrian ambassadors, Hamas operations Chief Imad al Alami met with PLO ambassador to Sweden Eugine Makhloof in an effort to hasten that reconciliation.
When this reconciliation concludes Israel will find itself in a most precarious situation. (web site) It will have militant Hamas, armed and funded by Iran, at its southeastern border complete with coastal access and Fatah, newly funded by the naïve actions of Israel and the international community, on its eastern border at what forms a choke point for Israel between the West Bank and the Mediterranean. To make matters worse, Iran's proxy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Syria, sits ominously on Israel's northern border, as does Hezbollah-heavy southern Lebanon.
As Syria issues calls (web site) for all of its nationals to evacuate Lebanon before July 15 in preparation for "an eruption of violence," one can legitimately assume that this violence will involve Israel and Hezbollah and perhaps even see the newly reconciled Hamas and Fatah factions engaging Israel as well. Israel, under the weakened leadership of "dove" Ehud Olmert, would be forced to battle a re-enforced and rejuvenated Hezbollah in the north while having to protect its eastern and western flanks simultaneously.
Through it's dovish approach to Hezbollah and its appeasement-based approach to Hamas, Fatah and the PLO, Israel has allowed itself to be surrounded by well-armed and financed terrorist factions whose charters include the extermination of the Israeli state, all three factions in symbiosis with the goals of a diabolical and genocidal mad man, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The lesson to be learned here is the same one that should have been learned at the end of World War II and at the end of the Vietnam War. Appeasement and a conciliatory approach to those whose stated goals are the violent defeat of free nations and the conquest of the world -- for political, ideological or religious reasons, or perhaps all three -- results in a greater loss of life, liberty and freedom. Pacification's consequence is the establishment of a base of power and development for the fascist leaders who quest to achieve the domination of the world, the key word here being domination.
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