When asked by President Franklin Roosevelt about what World War II should be called, Winston Churchill suggested it be labeled “The Unnecessary War.” “There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle,” he wrote in “The Gathering Storm.” Well, we may be about to see another one and, as in World War II, the enemy — in this case, Iran — is telling us exactly what it intends to do: wipe Israel off the map. As Hitler rebuilt the Wehrmacht, flaunting the Treaty of Versailles, Ahmadinejad builds his nukes and the missiles to carry them, in the face of ineffective sanctions. And Hezbollah wants Lebanon. The latest warning in the current gathering storm comes from Sheik Yazeeb Khader, a Hamas political activist and editor based in Ramallah in the West Bank. He told the Washington Times that the current turmoil in Lebanon is part of an inexorable process that began last year in Gaza when Hamas wrested control of Gaza and which will spread across the Middle East. “What happened in Gaza in 2007 is an achievement; now it is happening in 2008 in Lebanon,” Khader said in the interview. “It’s going to happen in 2009 in Jordan, and it’s going to happen in 2010 in Egypt. We are seeing a redrawing of the map of the Middle East where the forces of resistance and steadfastness are the ones moving the things on the ground.”