Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave one of the finest--and most important--addresses of his career Monday at the United Nations General Assembly, laying out a simple case against "militant Islam" that seems self-evident to many, but is anathema in elite foreign policy circles. Netanyahu expanded on his recent claims that ISIS and Hamas are essentially part of the same global effort, adding the Iranian regime to the equation.
Don't be fooled by distinctions between Sunni and Shia, between local attacks and transoceanic terror: these are important differences in other contexts, Netanyahu seemed to say, but all share the common revolutionary aim to impose a radical version of Islam on the world. Not all Muslims are militant, not all militants are Muslim, he said, but the major global threat comes from the phenomenon of militant Islam and its imperial ambitions.
And what they share in common, all militant Islamists share in common:
- Boko Haram in Nigeria;
- Ash-Shabab in Somalia;
- Hezbollah in Lebanon;
- An-Nusrah in Syria;
- The Mahdi Army in Iraq;
- And the Al-Qaeda branches in Yemen, Libya, the Philippines, India and elsewhere
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