Curiouser and curiouser:
So, worthy of note is that at this point Daesh and its semi-ally semi-thrall Boko Haram are conducting a fairly large-scale war on two continents. The latter, of course, is now the official deadliest terrorist organization.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/boko-haram-overtakes-isis-as-worlds-deadliest-terror-organisation-a6737761.html
Boko Haram, equally curiously, is conducting this full-scale conflict in a very oil-rich country with a conspicuous absence of the usual suspects who, if oil is indeed the sole and only motivation of their actions should be clustering over this like ants on a picnic. If oil indeed is the prime mover of imperial politics, whither the West in Nigeria? Why is African oil less of a focus than that in Syria and Iraq? Given the sheer size of Nigeria, profits for weapons would reap an even bigger profit there given the greater number of people involved and the ability, of course, to finance both sides. So where are the economic hitmen?
Daesh, meanwhile, in its quest to collect all the nuclear powers as adversaries, has now as well declared war on Hamas:
http://yournewswire.com/isis-declares-war-on-palestine-yet-remains-quiet-on-israel/
Given that Hamas, too, is yet another of those Iranian proxies out there waging war on Israel and Daesh's ongoing conflict with Hezbollah, this was of course predictable. But it renders more glaring the absence of the most predictable target of all these fanatical movements and that unlike literally every other movement of its kind out there bar Boko Haram, this movement has yet to engage in major hostilities with the Israelis. Well, as it turns out.....
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article.aspx?did=1001084873
^Likud is reaping a pretty profit from smuggled oil. I presume all the people who were champing at the bit to punish Turkey will equally be champing at the bit to punish the Israelis, no? Not so? To be sure, this makes explicitly clear *why* Daesh isn't biting the hands that feed it, but I don't expect people will either remember this or make anywhere near an equivalent fuss over the reality that the Israelis are exploiting this war for profit in a fashion that shows the Irgun hasn't really changed its stripes since the 40s and 80s.
On the plus side for the Israelis, with the war stretching on seemingly into infinity, business will literally be booming.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/boko-haram-overtakes-isis-as-worlds-deadliest-terror-organisation-a6737761.html
Boko Haram, equally curiously, is conducting this full-scale conflict in a very oil-rich country with a conspicuous absence of the usual suspects who, if oil is indeed the sole and only motivation of their actions should be clustering over this like ants on a picnic. If oil indeed is the prime mover of imperial politics, whither the West in Nigeria? Why is African oil less of a focus than that in Syria and Iraq? Given the sheer size of Nigeria, profits for weapons would reap an even bigger profit there given the greater number of people involved and the ability, of course, to finance both sides. So where are the economic hitmen?
Daesh, meanwhile, in its quest to collect all the nuclear powers as adversaries, has now as well declared war on Hamas:
http://yournewswire.com/isis-declares-war-on-palestine-yet-remains-quiet-on-israel/
Given that Hamas, too, is yet another of those Iranian proxies out there waging war on Israel and Daesh's ongoing conflict with Hezbollah, this was of course predictable. But it renders more glaring the absence of the most predictable target of all these fanatical movements and that unlike literally every other movement of its kind out there bar Boko Haram, this movement has yet to engage in major hostilities with the Israelis. Well, as it turns out.....
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article.aspx?did=1001084873
^Likud is reaping a pretty profit from smuggled oil. I presume all the people who were champing at the bit to punish Turkey will equally be champing at the bit to punish the Israelis, no? Not so? To be sure, this makes explicitly clear *why* Daesh isn't biting the hands that feed it, but I don't expect people will either remember this or make anywhere near an equivalent fuss over the reality that the Israelis are exploiting this war for profit in a fashion that shows the Irgun hasn't really changed its stripes since the 40s and 80s.
On the plus side for the Israelis, with the war stretching on seemingly into infinity, business will literally be booming.