Another indication of Syria's complicity in jihad activity. From Al-Jazeera (hence the labeling of Hizb Allah as a "resistance group"), with thanks to Kemaste:
Lebanon's Hizb Allah resistance group has said it would stand by Syria, blasting the United Nations for what it said was political incitement against Damascus over the killing of a Lebanese ex-premier."We say clearly that we stand by Syria, leadership and people, in the face of its targeting by the Americans and Zionists and attempts to punish it politically for standing by Lebanon and its resistance," Shaikh Hassan Nasr Allah told a big rally in Beirut's southern suburb on the occasion of Jerusalem (al-Quds) Day on Friday.
Nasr Allah and George Galloway will stand by Bashir Assad to the bitter end. Assad's end will be a bitter one, indeed.
The Christians and the Druse, and even the Sunni Muslims (old-school), have much to fear from the los-de-abajo Shi'a of southern Lebanon. All those who wish to extrapolate, as so many seem to wish to do whenever it comes to the Middle East and Muslims, from charming, well-spoken, decent representatives -- the very best, the very most unrepresentative representatives -- such as Fouad Ajami, should hereby give up that desire. Just as in Iraq, where the Americans were partly snookered, and partly wanted to believe, that the "good" Shi'a exiles represented Iraq, that Chalabi and Allawi and Rend al-Rahim and Kanan Makiya somehow represent more than 1% or 2% or even possibly 5% of the population, so those who believe that Fouad Ajami's example shows the sweet conceivable reasonableness of Lebanese Shi'a, or Azar Nafisi's example shows that we should not attack Iran lest it dampen the campaign of all those nice innocent Iranian enemies of the regime whose cause would be set back, or in Syria we should make common cause with Fawaz Ghadri, or in Egypt with Salah Eddin Ibrahim -- NO. No more being led astray by those whose interests, in the end, are not those of Infidels.
In Turkey, for example, the "secularists" want Turkey to be admitted to the E.U. Orhan Pamuk wants Turkey in the E.U. (just ask Christopher Hitchens, qui fait son petit Orwell). And it is understandable why. For Turkish "secularists," who at every turn have shown that they took Kemalism, secularism, for granted, and did not continue ruthelessly to constrain and contain Islam more and more and more, but let the Islamists, Erbakan and then Erdogan, and their supporters, to cleverly out-maneuver them at every step, now are feeling worried, and in order somehow to make their own positions more secure, they would like to dilute the power of Islam in Turkey, by making the problem not that of the Turkish secularists alone, but of all the non-Muslims in the E.U.
The policy for surival of Infidels should not be based on the siren-songs or the unrepresentaive nature of those perfectly presentable, highly articulate, deeply self-interested "Muslim-for-identification-purposes" Muslims, but only on what will give the greatest security to the Infidels. That means keeping Turkey out of the E.U. That means not hestitating a minute to attack the Islamic Republic of Iran even if some in the Iranian opposition believe that "if only" the West stays its hand, finally some internal revolt will solve the problem (but Iran, as a Muslim state, cannot ever be permitted to acquire such weaponry, not unless there is a mass apostasy, a return to Zoroastrianism, an embrace of Christianity, a willingness to contemplate free-thinking disbelief). And in Lebanon, the best course is to find ways to lure the Hezbollah into sending its best fighters off to Iran, to defend the Shi'a heartland, or to Iraq. What could be better than to have the black-balaclaved bezonians of Hezbollah fight with, and kill or be killed by, the black-balaclaved bezonians of Al-Zarkawi and company? And everyone else in Lebanon, not least the people we should mainly worry about -- the Arabic-using but non-Arab Maronites.
Consider that Ahmadinejad is acting up and vocal, because he knows that the reach of the Iranian Revolutionary Council is now extended into Iraq via the Supreme Council for the Iraq (Iranian) revolutionary council, and on the other side of Syria he has the fanatic diehards begging for martyrdom Hezbollah of Nasr Allah.
To the west of Syria lies the fanatic army of Hezbollah and it's militant "palestinians auxillaries" to the East of Syria lies the American made adjunct of Iran, called Iraq.
And following the logic of the pronouncement of Ahmadinejad, Jordan and Turkey had better get on board the Jihad against Zionism or they too will suffer the wrath of "allah", the days of Jordan as even a semblance of impartially are almost over.
Iran is on the march, gobbling up a piece at a time the mid east..and what of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Gulf States, I suspect that somehow an accomodation will be made between Sunni and Shi'a Islam, until they have sorted out the business of Israel. Then in a replay of the 7th Century Islamic Diadochus (war of succession) they will resort to the usual bloodshed, to sort out who will and will not lead the Moslemah.
Muslims are imprudent, and fatalistic, so it is not unlikely that they will abandon any restraints and force Israel as a final desperate move to employ their nukes.