'First we take Damascus, then Tel Aviv'

Mike L.

Salafist leader warns that once rebels topple Assad's regime they will set their sights on Israel; says 'We won't rest until Palestine is liberated'

The leader of the radical Salafist movement in Jordan, whose organization actively supports the Syrian rebels' efforts to topple President Bashar Assad's regime warned Sunday that once the Damascus opposition achieves its primary goal, it will set its sights on Israel.

The group's leader, Abed Shihadeh, who is also known as Abu Muhammad al-Tahawi, spoke at the funeral of a Jihadist who committed a suicide attack in Amman last week.

The long Arab war against the Jews in the Middle East is not about justice for any allegedly "indigenous" population, but about wiping away Jewish sovereignty on historically Jewish land because it offends al-Sharia.

When western "progressives" claim that Israel is a racist, colonialist, imperialist, apartheid, neo-fascist, racist state they are acting as dupes for the Islamists by explaining in western terms to a western audience just why it is that in this particular generation the Jews, yet again, deserve a good ass kicking.

The horrendous irony, of course, is that they are using the language of "human rights" and "social justice" in order to help bring about the conditions under which the Jews can be robbed of our means of self-defense.

This is not about justice for the Palestinians, but about a terrible injustice toward the Jews of the Middle East by the much, much larger majoritarian Arab-Muslim population in that region.  Among my various criticisms of "progressive Zionists" is their general failure to recognize that the problem is not with "conservative" Jews who they've decided are their real enemy, but with the larger Arab-Muslim world and its ongoing genocidally racist tendency toward us.