Saturday, June 16, 2007

Hamas in control in Gaza or is it the mullahs...

The civil fight appears to be over, for now at least, in the Gaza strip. And, as would have been expected, if for nothing than shear veracity of religious fundamentalism, the Hamas faction has won the day on the ground, by obliterating the Fatah's armed movement. This bears considerable watching on how the Iranian mullahs have muscled their way into the Palestinian state and split their ranks down the middle.

The mullahs claim not only Iraq, western Afghanistan, and southern Lebanon, as their territories, the Gaza strip has been added to this infamous list. The de'tente with Israel, long in the making, by beefing up the Hezbollah in Lebanon, has come full circle by taking over the Gaza. Hamas will not have a short term fear of an international backlash, as it is nearly fully supported by the Iranian mullahs. Its main headquarters are in Damascus, far removed from the international reach.

We called the Lebanon war last year and Hezbollah's emergence from that war, a fundamental strategic shift in the middle East. It is now spreading.

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