BEGIINING OF THE END??

Here are some excerpts from Newt Gingrich's appearance on this past weekend's Meet the Press appearance:

MR. GINGRICH: “…First, this is not the fifth day of the war. This is the 58th year of the effort by those who want to destroy Israel. As Ahmadinejad, the head of Iran, says, he wants to defeat the Americans and eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. So we should not see this event in isolation. There is and Iran/Syria/Hezbollah and Hamas alliance trying to destroy Israel.

“I mean, this is absolutely a question of the survival of Israel, but it’s also a question of what is really a world war. Look what you’ve been covering: …The North Koreans fire seven missiles on our Fourth of July; bombs going off in [Bombay], India; a war in Afghanistan with sanctuaries in Pakistan. As I said a minute ago, the Iran/Syria/Hamas/Hezbollah alliance. A war in Iraq funded largely from Saudi Arabia and supplied largely from Syria and Iran.

“The British home secretary saying that there are 20 terrorist groups with 1,200 terrorists in Britain. Seven people in Miami videotaped pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda, and 18 people in Canada being picked up with twice the explosives that were used in Oklahoma City, with an explicit threat to bomb the Canadian parliament, and saying they’d like to behead the Canadian prime minister. And finally, in New York City, reports that in three different countries people were plotting to destroy the tunnels of New York.

“…we are in the early stages of what I would describe as the third world
war, and frankly, our bureaucracies aren’t responding fast enough, we don’t
have the right attitude about this, and this is the 58th year of the war to
destroy Israel.

MR. RUSSERT: “This is World War III?”

MR. GINGRICH: “I believe if you take all the countries I just listed, that you’ve been covering, put them on a map, look at all the different connectivity, you’d have to say to yourself this is, in fact, World War III.”

Israel, a little narrow piece of ground, east of the Med Sea, remains in the spotlight during a 58 year struggle as her enemies attempt to destroy her. Beginning of the end?