China Confidential is a great blog but can be, shall we say, intemperate in their analysis. Don’t let that deter you from checking in with them though or you’ll miss some thought provoking, and fear provoking, posts like this one:

Amid reports that Chinese companies have increased shipments of sensitive military technologies to Iran, some Israeli analysts have developed a chilling new argument for preemptive military action against the nuclearlizing, non-Arab nation: relative size.

The Israeli view is that Islamist Iran is simply too big–and too suicidal–for Israel to depend on the doctrine, or threat, of “mutual assured destruction” to deter Tehran from launching an all-out conventional assault on the tiny (Massachusetts-sized) Jewish state, which, though widely assumed to have a formidable nuclear arsenal, could still be destroyed with one nuclear bomb.

If true, it means that Iran has won the chess game it’s been playing with the west already. Israel is backed into a corner and basically has to start the war that will end all wars, and maybe civilization as we know it.

The rockets, eleven in all, are reportedly being fired from a the besieged Palestinian refugee camp that was the base of operations for Fatah al-Islam. The militants there are still fighting a war of attrition with Lebanese forces.

From Beirut to the Beltway has some disturbing news about the military leadership presenting Fatah al-Islam as a Jewish (!?!) conspiracy, and wonders if the Hezbollah supporting Psuedo Baathists have plans for Lebanon’s future.

The rockets come just days after the U.N. tentatively iidentified the Harrari assassins as foreign nationals linked to pro-Syrian terror groups operating inside Lebanon.

While the Baathist/Nazi connection is well documented, Michael J. Totten filed this report about Lebanon that among other things exposes Hezbollah’s alliance with Lebanese neo-Nazis:

The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (think “national socialists,” aka Nazis) put a spinning swastika on their flag. They are basically the Lebanese branch of the Baath Party and want to merge Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and even Cyprus (!) back into “Greater Syria.” Several members were recently arrested by the army for plotting terrorist attacks inside Lebanon. One of their offices was torched by angry citizens a few weeks ago. The few hundred members who remain have aligned themselves with (who else?) the Hezbollah bloc.

The report is worth reading for the other points it makes, especially regarding the stability, or lack thereof, of the government. But the above tidbit puts Islamism, especially Iranian backed Islamism, in the proper context. Our own neo-Nazi’s have long embraced Hezbollah’s masters, a fact that is largely ignored by the left, but the fact that Neo-Nazi’s world wide are running to embrace Iran and it’s proxies should tell us all we need to know about Iran’s regime.

Although the left in this country is convinced it is Bush and his supporters, not those who embrace National Socialism, who are Nazi-esque.

Gateway Pundit has more.

The BBC is reporting that Pakistan’s lovable despot General Musharrif made a speech after the bloody battle with extremists in Lal Masjid that included the ominous warning to radical Muslims that he would “not allow any madrassa to be used for extremism.”

In other words, play time’s over, knuckle under or I’ll make Lal Masjid look like nap time in a New England pre-school.

Not a moment too soon if you ask me, but though I’ll enjoy watching Musharrif crack some bearded heads I’m not under any illusion as to why the General is taking action now. The radicals have forced his hand, most recently kidnapping Chinese nationals, and the last thing a semi-Fascist government wants is the world’s most powerful Communist dictatorship getting irked at elements within their country.

Read the report from the BBC, but be warned they put the inevitable English spin on any victory over Islamists.

UPDATE: China Confidential has more on China’s growing concerns with Islamism.