Iranian aid ships are due to set sail to Gaza by the end of the week, The Iranian Red Crescent decided to send the vessels, which will carry food, medications, and medical equipment, following a meeting with the foreign ministry.
Iranian aid ships are due to set sail to Gaza by the end of the week, according to a report in the Sunday Times.
The Iranian Red Crescent decided to send the vessels, which will carry food, medications, and medical equipment, following a meeting with the foreign ministry,
“One ship will carry donations made by the people and the other will carry relief workers. The ships will be sent to Gaza by end of this week,” Iranian Red Crescent director Abdolrauf Adibzadeh told the IRNA news agency.
On Sunday, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards are ready to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
“Iran’s Revolutionary Guards naval forces are fully prepared to escort the peace and freedom convoys to Gaza with all their powers and capabilities,” Ali Shirazi, Khamenei’s representative inside the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.
Israel Navy commandos last Monday killed nine activists in clashes on board the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara in a convoy trying to deliver aid to Gaza. The incident sparked international outrage, especially in Muslim countries and in Turkey, which threatened to cut its long-standing ties with Israel.
Israeli troops boarded another ship on Saturday and pro-Palestinian activists have promised more as they challenge the blockade imposed four years ago with the stated aim of stopping arms getting to Hamas.
It IS an act of war. Israel does not need to risk soldiers boarding the ships. If they refuse to turn back they need to be fired upon and sunk.
It’s a very dangerous military situation.They could have guided missiles or other WMD on board (maybe even a nuke). Israel should take no chances. If they come within a defined safety zone, then sink them.
Because the North Koreans aren’t Jews.
Bags of beans are a more useful cargo than weapons. It’s the same thing that Saddam did to Bush when he moved his WMD to Syria. Bush lost the PR battle even though he won the war. If terrorists had half a mind–this, I know is debateable–they could accomplish more in the name of compassion than with smuggled arms.
Terror is in their hearts and lust for blood in their blood. About the only thing that has kept them from advancing is their determination to shed blood and use force. They could have all but gotten what they desired if they had the self restraint to play the part of the innocent non-violent victim. The whole world would have gobbled it up. In fact, the world is siding with them now in the face of hard evidence against them.
The truth be told, the Islamic terrorists have too much pride to play the part of the helpless innocents. Their ‘honor’ demands they take by shedding blood and by force.
True, I believe that Iran would resist stopping at the blockade and Israel would have the right to fire on the ship as it hit their territorial waters. It would be my guess that they would attempt to conceal weapons in other materials. Take no prisoners.
72 Muslim virgins
Actually, rumor has it that there are only seventy-two virgins total–there’s a very good reason they are still virgins—that’s all there is and they must be divided among the however many billion Muslims there are. This is decided with a pair’a-dice, which has also lead to other false rumors about the place.
Because barak hussein obama passively sits by while Iran is developing nuclear weapons and joins in the lynch mob against Israel or at the very least takes a neutral stance, Iran is now feeling more emboldened to challenge Israel directly. Obama’s passivity in the face of evil or even outright siding with Israel’s enemies is going to lead to WW3. Barack hussein obama is the gravest mistake Americans have ever made.
Iranian ships won’t easily surrender to Israel to conform to Gaza blockade, and Israel won’t let them through.
Iran wouldn’t currently provoke Israel into an armed conflict: ayatollahs need a period of quiet to complete their nuclear program. Unless they completed it already.
It seems the stupidist thing Hamas could do, from their point of view, would be to have weapons on board any of these flotillas. Being effectual rests on a pretense of this being a humanitarian effort.