Tuesday, June 24, 2014

ISIS Caliphate Includes No Israel

By Douglas V. Gibbs

As ISIS works its way through Iraq, the terrorist network is doing more than just divide Iraq.  The entire Middle East is falling apart.  ISIS has disrupted and taken control of the region's most important trade routes, while also recruiting folks from all over the Muslim Middle East to join their hardline Islamic cause.  In Iraq alone, some 6 million Iraqi Sunnis recently have become supportive of the ISIS lightning strikes in the Sunni portion of the country. The borders between Syria, Iraq and Jordan are dissolving, becoming a blur, losing the definitions of their former selves.  Border stations have been seized, and a new caliphate, a caliphate led by ISIS, is emerging.

For the insurgents, capturing the frontier is a dramatic step towards the goal of erasing the modern border altogether and building a caliphate across swathes of Syria and Iraq. ISIS is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. “Sham,” or “Greater Syria,” refers to Cyprus, Palestine,
Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and southern Turkey.

ISIS claims to have access to nuclear weapons, and once the caliphate expansion across Syria and Iraq is complete, and ultimately capturing the entire Middle East, their first target, they say, will be Israel.

The Islamist organization believes it currently has massive regional support for its rapidly expanding ‘revolution of the oppressed.'

ISIS estimates it will take 72 months to “liberate” “Occupied Palestine,” or Israel.

One ISIS member was reported as saying: “All countries in this region are playing the sectarian card just as they have long played the Palestinian card, but the difference with ISIS is that we are serious about Palestine and they are not. Tel Aviv will fall as fast as Mosul when the time is right.”

ISIS appears “eager” to fight Israeli armed forces “in the near future despite expectation that the regime will use nuclear weapons.”

“Do you think that we do not have access to nuclear devices?” an ISIS member said. “The Zionists know that we do, and if we ever believe they are about to use theirs, we will not hesitate. After the Zionists are gone, Palestine will have to be decontaminated and rebuilt just like areas where there has been radiation released.”

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary


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