Iran has publicly announced that it is actively recruiting British Muslims to commit suicide bombings in Israel.

The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign, which claims to be independent but has the backing of the regime, said it is targeting potential recruits in Britain because of the relative ease with which UK passport-holders can enter Israel.

They aren’t even trying to hide their genocidal intent any more.

Mohammad Samadi, a spokesman for the group, told the Guardian that striking at Israel was the priority of his recruitment drive. “The first target is Israel. For us, that is the battlefield,” he said. “All the Jews are targets, whether military or civilian. It’s our land and they are in the wrong place. It’s their duty to pay attention to safety of their own families and move them away from the battlefield,” he said.

And notice how they justify these actions:

Mr Samadi said recruits would not be told to attack British cities. “With the exception of Israel, we do not target civilians,” he said. “They would definitely not be sent to carry out an attack on London unless it was to kill Salman Rushdie.”

This is a government-backed group set up with the permission and praise of the Iranian government, announcing its intent to murder Jews using British citizens. So what do the Brits say?

The British embassy has called on the Iranian government to renounce support for the group. A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We have longstanding concerns at the support that Iran provides to groups undermining peace in the Middle East through violence, including the activities of this group.”

But western diplomats played down the significance of the group’s threat, saying it was primarily a campaign to gather signatures of protest against Israel rather than recruiting bombers. But the group’s pronouncements add to the list of western indictments against Iran since the election last year of Mr Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be wiped off the face of the Earth.

It seems to me that it is past time for Israel to bring a case against Iran to the United Nations. By its words and deeds, Iran has committed many acts of war against a member state. Its support for Hezbullah, PIJ, and now Hamas, in a just world, would be enough for the censure, if not sanctioning, of Iran.

But this is not a just world. This is the UN, an organization that protects ruthless mass-murderers, passes resolutions declaring Zionism to be racism, and does nothing in Darfur, did nothing in Rwanda, and would do nothing to stop Iran.

They couldn’t even get a resolution condemning anti-Semitism passed. It was withdrawn due to opposition from — wait for it — the Arab bloc.

It astonishes me that a modern-day Hitler has publicly announced his intentions on more than one occasion, and the world still refuses to believe that he means what he says. What part of “Israel will be annihilated” is really that difficult to understand?

The world’s silence to the current answer to “the Jewish question” speaks volumes.

There is an unbelievable amount of blindness in the world media about the latest suicide bombing, and Hamas’ response to it. I am absolutely unable to assign a reason for words like these:

There is a sliver of hope that a split might be emerging within Hamas: Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a relative pragmatist, remained silent after Monday’s attack. But there’s a long road between silence and outspoken courage.

And these:

So why did a spokesman for Hamas — which has observed a ceasefire with Israel for more than a year — rush to defend yesterday’s bombing as an act the Palestinians had “every right” to carry out?

The most depressing, and also the likeliest, explanation is that the authority is afraid of alienating an important section of Palestinian public opinion — indeed, the very people who swept it into power in the first place.

I expect that kind of drivel from a South African paper. But not from USA Today.

When even the BBC recognizes that Hamas praised the suicide bombing, it makes USA Today’s editorial doubly reprehensible.

But there is no sign that Hamas feels in any way chastened.

After the West had delivered all its criticism, interior ministry spokesman Said Seeyam reiterated his government’s view that the Tel Aviv attack constituted self-defence.

The editorial writers are seeing things that are simply not in evidence. Haniyeh kept quiet because he’s playing good cop again. Give him time. He is unable to resist spouting the terrorist line. He will be caught on tape praising the suicide bombing.

USA Today’s editorialists will probably not see it. I’m betting they won’t report it, either.

The moment terrorist scum get hauled into court, they scream that the court is illegitimate, the justice system the court is a part of is illegitimate, and the country of Israel is illegitimate.

Of course, when it suits their own needs, they’re more than happy to use it as a weapon against their mortal enemies:

Four senior Hamas officials plan to appeal to the Supreme Court against Israel’s decision to revoke their Jerusalem residency rights, the Palestinian justice minister said Wednesday.

Israel decided Tuesday to strip three Hamas legislators and a Palestinian Authority Cabinet minister of their Israeli-issued identity cards, which grant them permanent residency in Jerusalem and freedom of movement in Israel.

The unprecedented decision came after the Palestinians’ new Hamas government refused to denounce a suicide bombing committed on Monday by the Islamic Jihad. The bombing killed nine civilians and wounded dozens.

The Palestinian Justice Minister, Ahmed Khaldi, said the Hamas government would back the four in their legal battle, in part because of what he said were Palestinian concerns that Israel is trying to establish a precedent and strip more Jerusalem Palestinians of their residency rights.

Ah, the hypocrisy. It’s enough to make seventy-two virgins blush.

But then what do you expect from members of an organization that recruits, trains, and glorifies suicide bombings while claiming to be practiioners of A Religion Of Peace™?

In this days, when moral relativism seems to be gaining more and more ground with extreme sides of the political spectrum, I have stumbled on a single sane voice amidst an orgy of insanity.

Take a look at the comments on comment is free to the Yossi Alper’s article “Hamas’s blood test”.

From the first insane post “Yes, you agree Israel should complete its ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine.” to the end of it, the discourse follows, more or less, the insane pattern of Guardian Talk mudslinging matches.

And in the middle of it all, as a rare note that is in stark contrast with the cacophony of madness:

quirky April 18, 2006 02:32 PM

Did Abu Mazen condemn the recent suicide attack in TA? I must have missed it. All I heard him saying was that he condemned it because it was against the interests of Palestinians. Not because it was wrong to target women and children.

Thank you, quirky. Just the fact that you exist makes me feel a bit better.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

Okay, so Hamas’ Foreign Minister Zahar confirmed then denied and then confirmed denying writing in his letter to Kofi Annan that Hamas wanted to live side by side in peace with its neighbors while specificially not mentioining Israel or accepting a two-state solution.

Fine. It’s safe to assume that side-by-side with neighbors means wiping out Israel and then living side-by-side in peace with Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan…

Whoops, better forget about Jordan:

Jordan said Tuesday it was canceling a visit of the Palestinian foreign minister because activists of his Hamas party had been smuggling missiles and other weapons into the kingdom.

Government spokesman Nasser Judeh said a visit by Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar that was to take place on Wednesday had been “put off until further notice.”

He told The Associated Press that “missiles, explosives and automatic weapons were seized in the last couple of days along with the Hamas activists who had managed to smuggle such dangerous weapons into the country.”

Well, there goes any participation in the PA Fundapalooza from Jordan.

You know, the last time a Palestinian terrorist with ugly facial hair tried to arm and lead a revolt in Jordan, tens of thousands of his followers, their families, and their neighbors got massacred and ground up into the desert without a trace.

Times sure have changed, haven’t they?