First hot tip - Painfully obvious to no one

I received this information from an extremely trustworthy source recently in-country in Venezuela. Some of the native tribes are being drafted into forced labor to mine Uranium.
Guess where the Uranium is going? That's right, Iran.

It has become painfully obvious that Iran has discovered just how weak the UN is when swift and forceful action is required, and is exploiting this to the best of their abilities. Meanwhile the UN drafts preliminary resolutions and demands answers by an unspecified date, with the specifier of "weeks, not months". (which was summarily ignored by Tehran, of course)

One thing that's interesting is how willing Pres. Ahmadinejad is to say exactly what the rest of the Muslim community in the Middle East -or to be generous, the radical elements thereof- have been thinking for decades. When he calls for the elimination of the nation of Israel, or denies that the Holocaust occured, he is not merely voicing the inane opinions of a crazed autocrat.
He is reiterating the same goals and revisionist history that Palestinian terrorists and other organizations such as Hizbollah (this seems to be the most popular spelling lately) have been spouting for years.

The West has ignored and dismissed these claims, since from our own materialistic secular mindsets, surely the only real objectives any terrorists have are power and wealth.
They can't really be suggesting that they have religious reasons for wanting to eliminate an entire race of people, can they? This sort of thing isn't done in the 21st century..

When will we realize that the goals that the Jihadists have been trumpeting after every suicide bombing and abduction are indeed, their real goals and the source of their fanatical motivation?

They do indeed want to kill every Jew, or at least those living in Israel. They won't stop when given slices of land, although they accept these gladly, just as the Nazis would have happily carved pieces out of France, had France offered them in WWII in exchange for a ceasefire.
The Nazis would haven taken the land, then broken the ceasefire. Funny, that sounds really similar to recent events involving Israel.

The moral of this analogy should be obvious, but somehow it is not.
The shocking part to me is that while I can understand the Neville Chamberlains of the world suggesting such a strategy of appeasement, I cannot understand why Israel would go along with it. Their actions in Lebanon, finally, may imply that they have rejected this strategy of suicide by attrition. But more on Lebanon later.

-OAK