One look at history and it becomes obvious that there is an alliance of totalitarian regimes in the Middle East that is founded on religious fundamentalism. This alliance is the Middle East Totalitarian Axis led by Iran, suspected owner of a massive nuclear arsenal. It is composed of the Ba’ath of Syria, the Hezbollah of Lebanon, and the Hamas of Gaza Strip. It can be concluded that this alliance is not a geographical one in the strictest sense of the word. All three, however, exist for the strongest reason of combating Western colonial rule and its imperialist agenda.

The existence of US-backed Israel in the midst of this alliance is construed by some as an ably-backed entity made strong by its patron to bully its presence in the region. No one can deny the fact that Israel is, indeed, being used by its patron to do precisely that – assert the presence. Hamas is currently the group that confronts this Israel-US alliance in the area.

Hamas can also be seen as the group most active in helping to wage the Iranian campaign. Their persistent rocket-firing into Israel is proof enough that the group is aimed to provoke the enemy. To drive the Israeli forces from the occupied territories is but the short-term goal of Hamas. It is part of a bigger agenda.

The extremist and violent Hamas is directly funded by Iran in the group’s control over the Gaza Strip. In effect, Hamas is Iran’s terrorist group. It is the most active player in the Iranian agenda. The popular notion that Hamas directly involves itself with the Palestinian question only misleads and blurs the real extremist and totalitarian agenda of the alliance in the Middle East. If, indeed, there is a dilemma regarding the right of the Palestinians for self-determination and self-rule, perhaps, little do Palestinians know that they are being played in the grand political agenda of radical Islamists in the Middle East. For starters, Palestinians should look beyond the matter of Israel and right into the eye of the Iranian agenda in the region.

Gaza is truly an Arab conundrum. Radical Islamism has replaced communism as democracy’s biggest enemy.

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Via BBC