Patrick Seale, mouthpiece for the Syrian regime, has stated:

"A new high command is taking shape, formed by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'a movement that booted out Israel from southern Lebanon, HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement that has overshadowed the Palestinian Authority of Yaser Arafat as a spearhead of resistance to Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood, represented in the occupied territories by the Islamic
Jihad and last but not least, the Islamic Republic of Iran"

I wrote something awfully similar about the various Palestinian groups being consolidated under Hezbollah's rubric and becoming part of an Iranian-Syrian anti-American nexus in the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin in April.

Of course Mr. Seale and I have slightly different takes on the nature and ambition of this alliance. Still, I hate agreeing with Patrick Seale - but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.