Curiouser and curiouser:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

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. 

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[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Yes, has anyone asked themselves why it is that ISIS hasn't said anything about wiping Israel off the map? I mean, I get it, Iran/Hezbollah are against Israel, and ISIS/Saudis are against Iran/Hezbollah, so the friend of my friend... Oh wait. The Saudis and Israel turn out to be in the same camp!? But what about Turkey? Turkey is against Israel, but is friends with the Saudis/ISIS. So where does all this put Israel? Confus'd...

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering that for years. I mean if nothing else, you'd expect the rhetoric to be there, but it's nowhere to be found. Buying Daesh oil makes more sense than anything else, as it explains why Daesh doesn't go after Turkey or Israel. Now it could be other things, but until there'd be some fire with the smoke, it'd be hard to see anything more logical than "Shut up and take my money" applied to the worst possible interpretations.

And of course if the Israelis really *are* doing that and it's not Russia engaging in Jew-bashing because it's Russia, well, I wouldn't put it past Bennie "Living off my brother and the inevitable in five years Iran with nukes for 20+ years" Netanyahu.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Oh but Bibi drew a bomb on a piece of cardboard and showed it to the rest of the world to see. So it must be true.

It was a very nice looking bomb, by the way. It had a fuse and all, you know. Almost like a cartoon Acme bomb.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

You mean a bomb like that of Wile E Coyote?

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

That's the one.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

That presentation oughtta have been epic.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Almost as momentous as that other snowball presentation in the House the debunked the climate change hoax once and for all.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Bibi must've been taking cues from the US Congress. Not the best place to learn stuff from, granted.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

That was indeed some lovely piece of cutting-edge science. Yup.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

[garote]

That's the worst looking launch vehicle I've seen outside of a Piers Anthony novel.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

It's been true since 1993.

I take it that they really screw up math in Israel. ;)

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Depends whom you ask - secular Israelis or those Jew-jitsu Jedi with the spooky curls on their cheeks.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

To be sure. Albeit the Israeli Orthodox tend to be funny analogues of American conservatism. "The state is the greatest evil in the history of ever! Worse than Hitler! But don't you touch my subsidies and expect me to live on my own, that would be worse evil than that!"

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Yes, as usual, the follow-the-money principle fully applies here.