[goldstategop]

We're all Jews, now. Jihad International, Inc, headed by Iran is not going to stop with Israel. It intends to creare a new Persian Empire not seen since the days of Axtaterxes. The Achaemenids were stopped by the Greeks from conquering Athens. Who in the West will stop Iran from conquering London? Iran bids to become a world superpower and if it gets the bomb it will be one. What happens to Israel is irrelevant. The real story is the fate of a feckless West - and Russia. Ancient Persia built an empire from Ethiopia to India. For the mullahs, the real estate to be won is the world.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

[larryjohnson]

thanks,saving.

[John Valentine]

There haven't been any Zionists anywhere near Damascus in 60 years and Syria is in effect Iran's first Sunni Arab prison bitch.

Yep, ain't life grand? Assad was so worried about domination by the West, and now he's picking up the soap for Ahmedinejad.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[Dark Skies]

Best article yet on this strange phenomenon.

[nuconvert]

Bump! for Steyn

[PGalt]

Outstanding Steyn. Thanks for posting.

[maica]

The Zionists got out of Lebanon and the most powerful force in the country (with an ever-growing demographic advantage) are Iran's Shia enforcers. There haven't been any Zionists anywhere near Damascus in 60 years and Syria is in effect Iran's first Sunni Arab prison bitch. For the other regimes in the region, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria are dead states that have risen as vampires.

For such a deadly serious topic, Steyn is, as usual, a joy to read. The new reality -- Demography is Destiny.

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[RhoTheta]

They've now belatedly realized they're at that stage in the horror film where the monster has mutated into something bigger and crazier.

Gotta love the imagery!

[prairiebreeze]

New tagline addition.

[sine_nomine]

So why isn't this guy UN Secretary? I wish he were.

[Vinomori]

BUMP for rare lucidity.

[AnnaZ]

Steyn is so brilliant, to read him is almost painful. God bless him and his pen.

[Savage Beast]

The Europeans have gotten in bed with the devil thinking they're going to get a good night's sleep.

[Jim Noble]

Failure to Solve the Palestinian Question

And what question is that?

You can't give an answer without a proper question.

So, WHAT'S THE QUESTION?

[mylife]

For the first quarter-century of Israel's existence, the Arab states fought more or less conventional wars against the Zionists, and kept losing. So then they figured it was easier to anoint a terrorist movement and in 1974 declared Yasser Arafat's PLO to be the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," which is quite a claim for an organization then barely half-a-decade old. Amazingly, the Arab League persuaded the U.N. and the EU and Bill Clinton and everyone else to go along with it and to treat the old monster as a head of state who lacked only a state to head

But Saudi-Egyptian-Jordanian opportunism on Palestine has caught up with them: It's finally dawned on them that a strategy of consciously avoiding resolution of the "Palestinian question" has helped deliver Gaza, and Lebanon and Syria, into the hands of a regime that's a far bigger threat to the Arab world than the Zionist Entity. Cairo and Co. grew so accustomed to whining about the Palestinian pseudo-crisis decade in decade out that it never occurred to them that they might face a real crisis one day: a Middle East dominated by an apocalyptic Iran and its local enforcers, in which Arab self-rule turns out to have been a mere interlude between the Ottoman sultans and the eternal eclipse of a Persian nuclear umbrella. The Zionists got out of Gaza and it's now Talibanistan redux. The Zionists got out of Lebanon and the most powerful force in the country (with an ever-growing demographic advantage) are Iran's Shia enforcers. There haven't been any Zionists anywhere near Damascus in 60 years and Syria is in effect Iran's first Sunni Arab prison bitch. For the other regimes in the region, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria are dead states that have risen as vampires.

If the Nations of the ME do not defend themselves from radical islam they will fall to it. Islam is truely like a cancer. If Karzai and Maliki and the rest dont get serious the entire region could go up in flames

[Lurker]

This is one time I'm going to quibble with Mr. Steyn.

There is no such thing as a 'palestinian'. There are Egyptian arabs, Syrian arabs, and Jordanian arabs. But there is not and God willing there never will be any such thing as a 'palestinian.'

L

[Irish_Thatcherite]

After all, there are plenty of IRA sympathizers around the world

Unfortunately that includes Freerepublic... Fenian trolls!

[Rummyfan]

Suppose this were true -- that terrorists blew up Oz honeymooners and Scandinavian stoners in Balinese nightclubs because of "the Palestinian question." Doesn't this suggest that these people are, at a certain level, nuts?

Oh they are nuts, on many levels!