China Confidential analysts agree. The above-referenced piece confirms what successive U.S. administrations (and some Israeli governments) have failed to appreciate–namely, that right-wing political Islam, or Islamism, is a global movement, bridging ethnic and national lines and theological differences.

The monster that was unleashed in 1979 during the Cold War in Afghanistan (before the Soviet invasion) and Iran … with the backing of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan … has grown into a unique, supranational power, with deadly tentacles reaching deeply, even, into the United States. Unless Islamism is rooted out and destroyed–there is no diplomatic solution to the problem–the global monster will destroy Western civilization.

It is only a matter of time before the Islamists smuggle a nuclear bomb into the U.S. or attack a U.S. coastal city with a nuclear missile, or detonate a warhead high above the U.S. in order to wipe out practically all communications and electronic systems in the country.

Islamism is the new Nazism. End it–crush Islamism for once and all–before it ends us.

Where’s the outrage?

EXTRA: MUSLIM CHILD BRIDES IN BRITAIN AS YOUNG AS 9

The first Muslim-born (according to Islamic law) President of the United States has yet to condemn such atrocities. Instead, Barack Hussein Obama, who studied and practiced Islam as a child in Indonesia–where his Muslim stepfather registered him for school as a Muslim Indonesian citizen–has made appeasement of fascistic, fundamentalist Islam a cornerstone of his failed foreign policy.

Pyongyang’s government-run Korean Central News Agency announced that Jang Son Taek, Kim’s brother-in-law, has been named vice chairman of the North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission during a rare second session of parliament.

Kim is the chairman of that commission, giving him control of the country’s armed forces and cementing his status as North Korea’s absolute ruler.

Jang is widely seen as a trusted custodian and tutor of the North Korean leader’s youngest son, Kim Jong Un. Many analysts believe it is likely the younger Kim will take over the North Korean leadership from his father, as early as 2012.

Senior researcher Cheong Seong-Jang with the Sejong Institute in Seoul said the promotion of Jang could reflect new emerging political strategy in the wake of new tensions with South Korea over the sinking of the South Korean warship, the Cheonan. As the South threatens to resume psychological warfare against the North, Cheong said North Korean intellectuals may now be estranged from the government. As a leading figure among that group, Cheong said Jang Song Taek can do much to prevent intellectuals from distancing themselves from the government or even defecting from the North.

South Korea referred the Cheonan sinking to the United Nations Security Council Friday, after a multinational investigation team concluded a North Korean torpedo attack was the cause. Forty six South Korean sailors were killed in the March incident, which took place near a maritime border long disputed by the North.

Also at Monday’s session, the North’s premier, Kim Yong Il, was dismissed and replaced by Choe Yong Rim, a senior party official.

Kim Young-soo, a North Korean studies professor at Sogang University in Seoul, believes that move was driven by economic concerns. He said outgoing Premier Kim is being blamed for disastrous currency reforms announced last year. Mr. Choe, his replacement, is being set up to introduce new policies in industry and agriculture.

The North Korean Supreme People’s Assembly is very different from other parliaments around the world. It has no mandate to debate and discuss policy. Instead, it ceremonially approves directives issued by government branches under Kim Jong Il’s direct control. The assembly has not convened twice in the same year since 2003.

-VOA

UPDATE: KIM’S OLDEST SON, FOUND IN MACAU, DENIES PLANS TO DEFECT

Good news.

Helen Thomas, an ugly anti-Semite, has resigned. Click here for the story.

Thomas’ hatred of Israel–and Jews–is actually an old story. For decades, she has been known as a rabid anti-Semite and vicious opponent of Israel’s right to exist. That the Washington press corps tolerated her for so long is an absolute disgrace.

That she was not fired is also disgraceful, as Caroline Glick observes, over here.

Thus, Iran’s threat of military intervention on the side of Hamas should be taken seriously. The monstrous mullahocracy may well decide to provide blockade-breaking ships with an IRGC naval escort at the risk of triggering a confrontation with Israel.

Turkey could join Iran in the intervention. It has already threatened to escort so-called aid ships in the wake of the bloody flotilla incident.

And Iran could order its Lebanese Islamist proxy, Hezbollah, to threaten Israel with retaliatory missile attacks.

An Israeli warning to Hezbollah could prompt Syria, Iran’s secular but steadily Islamizing ally, to come to the defense of Hezbollah. Syria has huge stockpiles of missiles and chemical warheads.

Could the dynamic, once set in motion by Iran, lead to war? Yes. And it would not be the first time in the long history of Israel’s struggle for survival against overwhelming odds. Something similar happened in 1967–read the history of the Six-Day War–and it can happen again.

Quite easily, in fact.

Appeasement fans the flames of aggression. Obamappeasement is making war with Iran inevitable–on Iran’s terms.

The essay focuses on Obama’s plan to subjugate the United States to the United Nations. The subjugation of the American middle class to Washington is of course key to the scheme. Obamunism seeks the pauperization of the middle class–crushing it and turning it into a wefare/working class wholly dependent on the U.S. government–because the middle class is arguably most dedicated to preserving and protecting the rights of the individual, liberty, patriotism, the traditional American way of life and traditional family values, the Judeo-Christian heritage–in short, everything that stands in the way of Third World Marxist/Islamist global domination.

Obama is America’s first Third World President by birth–his Kenyan father was a socialist and a Muslim, which makes Obama a Muslim according to Islamic law–ideology, and overall outlook and style. Hence, his odious appeasement policy and habit of physically bowing to foreign rulers, including the king of Saudi Arabia, a fountainhead of fascistic fundamentalist Islam and a nation with no human or civil rights.

Two of Israel’s former friends–non-Arab Muslim nations that were once staunch U.S. allies–are now cooperating closely in a plot to destroy the Jewish State and drive the United States from the Middle East.

This reporter is of course referring to Turkey and Iran. The former is Islamizing under a crypto-Islamist government; the latter country is firmly in the grip of an Islamist regime that openly muses about « a world without America and Zionism » and global Islamist rule.

Working with them are Iran’s Islamist Palestinian and Lebanese proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, respectively, and still secular but steadily Islamizing Syria.

The rough outline of their plan is increasingly clear: a Turkish invasion of Gaza, sooner or later, to set the stage for all-out war. Hamas, which rules the Palestinian terror-territory, will invite Turkey, ask it to intervene. Iran will provide a nuclear/missile umbrella–and threaten to close the Persian Gulf to oil shipping–while Hezbollah and Syria bombard Israel with missiles, including, possibly chemical warheads.

The plan depends on the continued isolation and demonization of Israel and continued U.S. appeasement of radical Islam.

Iran was Israel’s friend and an important U.S. ally until the 1979 Islamist overthrow of Iran’s Shah, a modernizing monarch. The craven Carter administration was complicit in the Shah’s fall, cynically and stupidly believing it could ride the Islamist tiger without being eaten by it.

The Obama administration has tried to engage–appease and actually align with–Iran in the hope of pacifying Pakistan and Afghanistan. The administration has also encouraged Turkey’s tilt toward Iran and emboldened Ankara to turn openly and viciously against Israel.

President Obama’s outreach to organized Islam is also encouraging Islamists–the Muslim Brotherhood–to think they can eventually come to power in Egypt, a U.S. Arab ally that signed a peace treaty with Israel in March 1979, about two months after the Islamist takeover of Iran.

1. The loss of Turkey. It is now firmly in Iran’s camp, plotting and planning Israel’s destruction and America’s expulsion from the Middle East.

2. Nuclear Iran. Obama has allowed the turbaned tyranny to come closer than ever to acquiring atomic arms. Barring a miracle, there is no diplomatic solution; the sanctions push is a bad joke.

3. Ascendant Hamas and Hezbollah. Iran’s Islamist proxies are gaining every day in every way.

The rogue regime in Burma is reportedly developing nuclear weapons with North Korean help–and Chinese complicity.

Google Burma news. Go here.

When the history of the Axis of Evil is written, it will show that North Korea and Iran drew inspiration from two of America’s most notorious foes–Fidel Castro and (ironically, given the Iran-Iraq war) Saddam Hussein. Castro used Soviet-supplied nuclear missiles to put an end to U.S. attempts to overthrow him and his Communist Cuban regime. Saddam used missiles to terrorize Israel and blaze a path for Israel’s enemies to be able to one day threaten its existence in spite of the comparative overwhelming superiority of the Israeli Air Force.

North Korea and Iran … partners in nuclear and missile crime … a marriage made in hell. Their advances make the whole notion of an international community practically meaningless.

Imagine Hamas threatens to detonate the device if Israel does not immediately withdraw from the West Bank and Jerusalem and agree to end its existence as a Jewish state in Palestine.

Imagine Israel responds by threatening to obliterate (nuke) Gaza and Iran if any sort of atomic weapon explodes anywhere in Israel.

Imagine Iran responds to Israel’s threat by threatening to « burn » New York and Los Angeles by detonating hidden nuclear bombs in those cities.

Imagine 2015 and a second Obama term….

A major concern: possible Turkish military intervention on behalf of Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization that rules Hamas with an iron fist.

Turkey and Iran are cooperating closely. Nuclear-arming Iran intends to exploit the blockade issue to the maximum possible extent.

Opinion polls show that over 60 percent of the American people support Israel. President Obama is generally seen as hostile to Israel.

EXTRA: TALIBAN TRAIN IN IRAN

This explains the refusal of the leaders of the flotilla to agree to Israel’s perfectly reasonable demand that the ships first dock at an Israeli port instead of heading straight into Hamas-controlled Gaza to allow for security checks and cargo inpections. Israel was ready to facilitate and even expedite transhipment of all legitimate goods to Gaza.

Palestinian informants are believed to have provided Israel with valuable intelligence ahead of the incident–a pre-dawn sea battle in which at least 10 « activists » were killed after attacking Israeli commandos with live fire, steel clubs, and knives.

More information to follow. Israel’s enemies will make every effort to exploit the incident and escalate tensions.

Why does the Obama Administration focus on engaging enemies? Because it is precisely, according to the Obama world view, the « bad boy » powers which must be appeased. After all, since the United States is conceived as weak and overextended, the ones threatening to disrupt everything are too strong to oppose, they must be coopted.

That is why « appeasement » is a correct word here, more than I ever realized before. These countries are being offered partnership from a standpoint of weakness, a situation in which even if their price is very high they must be paid off because there is no alternative. What saves the United States and perhaps the world here is that the real enemies (and neither China nor Russia belong in that category) are so confident and extremist that–as we have seen in Iran’s case–they will inevitably set the price too high for even the Obama Administration to meet.

Read the whole essay, by Barry Rubin, here.