Contrary to popular belief, many Palestinians wish for the days when Israel was in charge. They long for the days when things were more peaceful than they are today. Some in Gaza stated that they approved when Israel started launching missiles and attacks, … because the thugs on the streets went into hiding. (via Fox News Channel) Shouldn’t this tell us all something? When Hamas and Fatah were brought into power, no one had any idea what the future would look like. No long-term planning took place then, and no long-term planning is taking place now.

In the short-term, all sides are re-arming and preparing for a confrontation that could start as early as July. Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, are all acquiring weapons. Many of those weapons are coming from Russia, bought and paid for by Iran, who in turn gets some missiles of their own.

Russia and Iran are conducting proxy wars against the United States and Israel by funding, equipping and by providing strategy to terrorists who ultimately fight in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel. Russia is complicit in the proxy wars because Iran is by far and away one of the largest arms customers of Russia, which booked an estimated $18 billion dollars in arms contracts in 2005, Iran accounting for $4 billion of that amount, Syria another $2 billion, and Sudan $400 million, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2006, Russia actually exported $8 billion in weapons worldwide, much of it going to Iran, Syria, and Venezuela.

Russian technology and weapons expertise is now showing itself in the bodies of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas. (WDC Media)

The Near East Consulting web site reports, via Primer Connecticut:

44 percent of Palestinian Arabs prefer a return to the pre-Oslo situation. In other words, after nearly a decade and a half of vicious anti-Israel propaganda by the Palestinian Authority, nearly half the population of the disputed territories would prefer Israeli rule!Asked about the main issue that made them depressed, only 2 percent cited the so-called Israeli occupation. Economic hardship, the absence of security, the power struggle between Hamas and Fatah, being ruled by Hamas and family problems were all greater concerns.

Terrorists Pledge to Get American Weapons, Yid With Lid, Israelated, all via WND

… the proposal is to arm Fatah in its civil war against Hamas. The only problem is that the Fatah “army” has been “merged” with Hamas since the Mecca agreement.

The Gathering Storm on Iran and her proxies:

History shows that appeasing tyranny has never, ever, succeeded - especially when tyranny’s plans are made obvious by tyranny itself. But when we do respond to the threat - sooner or later - the price will be steep and long lasting and would most probably result in a constitutional crisis in the this country. [snip]Either we get off the Middle-East oil tit or our country will be held hostage by Islamic tyranny. Plain and simple. This is no longer an economic debate but a question of national survival. Let’s make it so.

How much long-term planning is the United States doing in connection to the Middle East? I hope something is going on behind the scenes, because up front … it looks like we are making this up as we go along. This reminded me of a married couple who called Neil Cavuto on Fox. The wife is in her 80’s, the husband is 90. They are building a new house from the ground up, but wanted to know about some “long-term” investments. They were planning to do something big on the husband’s 100th birthday. I call that long-term planning. We need some of that spirit.

If you believe in Biblical prophecy, WDC Media Media offers this:

The Russian-Iranian relationship sets a historic precedent since Russia and Iran have never allied since the establishment of Israel as a nation in 1948. The Biblical prophecy in Ezekiel 38:4,5 speaks of Gog, modern day Russia, coming against Israel, “I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army…Persia, Ethiopia and Libya are with them.” Russia has armed Sudan, Egypt and Libya, which accounts for all of northern Africa at the time of the prophecy. Now Iran and Russia are together. Watch for what is next. (WDC Media)

This could be a very nasty Summer.

Originally posted at Right Truth