Foehammer’s Anvil

While most of the U.S.A. has been paying more attention to the disbarment of Mike Nifong or the incarceration of Paris Hilton, our enemies in the Middle East have been quite active. It reminds me of a gathering of carrion crows surrounding Israel, smelling the coming kill. Indeed, Hamas’ violent takeover in Gaza has the crows in a frenzy, gentle readers.

Here’s part of what author Daniel Pipes has to say this morning in an article entitled ‘Two Palestines, Anyone?’ :

As for Israel, it faces the same existential threat as before. It gains from Hamas’s near isolation from the West, from the fractured Palestinian movement, and from its having a single address in Gaza. Also, it benefits from having an enemy, Hamas, overt in its intention to eliminate the Jewish state, rather than dissimulating, like Fatah. (Fatah talks to Jerusalem while killing Israelis, Hamas kills Israelis without negotiations; Fatah is not moderate, but crafty; Hamas is quite purely ideological.) But Israel loses when the fervor, discipline, and stern consistency of totalitarian Islam replace Fatah’s incoherent, Arafatian mish-mash.

It would benefit us all to have clearer enemies to shoot, but that isn’t how the Arab Muslims play the game. They are cunning enough to know that the veil must be held high up near the eyes as long as possible, until the time comes when the facade of peace can fall away entirely.

Not far away from Gaza, bigger, fatter and more cunning crows have been spotted looming. This from the Islamic Republic News Agency:

Iran’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mohammad Hosseini said on Tuesday that enemies of Islam are not happy with growing trend of bilateral ties between the two countries [Iran and Saudi Arabia].

Hosseini was speaking in a meeting with Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayif bin Abdul-Aziz as he pointed to conspiracies hatched by enemies.

“There are hands at work to inculcate wrong and incorrect news to distress minds of regional states about the Islamic Republic of Iran.

“Unfortunately, certain countries accept and spread such news.

We should act wisely vis-a-vis such plots,” he said.

He added Iran and Saudi Arabia have enjoyed growing ties during recent months, saying, “The two countries have enormous cultural and historical potentials and commonalties which can lead to establishment of tranquility and strengthening of the Islamic world.”
Hosseini stated that a recent visit by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Riyadh opened a new chapter in mutual relations, stressing, “Continued Iran-Saudi ties will be in the best interest of the Islamic world.”
The envoy pointed to misbehavior of a minor group in Saudi Arabia towards Iranian pilgrims and called on Saudi officials to take a severe action against such moves.

So the myth that Sunni and Shiite can not work together against a common enemy is melting away. The two greatest enemies to the United States in the world are now playing in the same sandbox.

And still more crows have been gathering lately. Wicked, wicked carrion crows with a taste for blood. From Crusade Media (hat-tip: Paul):

During most of last week, two high-ranking Iranian delegations spent time in Damascus. One was composed of generals who held talks with Syrian leaders on coordinated preparations for a Middle East war in the coming months.

At the Iranian end, a similar high-ranking Syrian military delegation called in at Iranian army and Revolutionary Guards headquarters to tighten operational coordination between them at the command level, as well as inspecting the Iranian arsenal. The Syrian general staff will draw up a list of items it is short of for a possible military confrontation with Israel this summer.

Sources report that last week, Tehran sent Moscow a check for $327 m to pay for assorted missiles consigned to Damascus. A further $438 m has been pledged by the end of June for more hardware to Syria.

Ahmadinejad and Assad, perched in a tree….

And it looks like a Russian bear is sitting at the base of that tree and his paws are very dirty.

Caw, comrade!