The Communist-Islamist Axis Rears Its Head in South Asia. Plus, Israel Plots Military Expansion in Gaza.

An unhappy marriage: Radical Islam and communism “are strange bedfellows,” writes the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson. “Nonetheless, across much of Asia, an increasing number of countries are welcoming both,” as this week’s jihadist attack in Kashmir makes clear. “Pakistan is the classic example of this nexus,” Watson writes. “Its intelligence services allegedly supported the Taliban