Iranian aid ships head for Gaza

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE65D0HG.htm

Source: Reuters
* First ship left Iran Sunday, another leaves this week

* Iran says will continue until Gaza blockade lifted

* 100,000 Iranians volunteer to crew ships - report

TEHRAN, June 14 (Reuters) - Iran is sending aid ships to blockaded Gaza, state radio said on Monday -- a move likely to be considered provocative by Israel which accuses Tehran of arming the Palestinian enclave's Islamist rulers, Hamas.

One ship left port on Sunday and another will depart by Friday, loaded with food, construction material and toys, the report said. The boats would be part of international efforts to break Israel's isolation of the Gaza Strip.

"Until the end of the Gaza blockade, Iran will continue to ship aid," said an official at Iran's Society for the Defence of the Palestinian Nation.

While Israel has long suspected Iran, which rejects the Jewish state's right to exist, of supplying weapons to Hamas, Tehran says it only provides moral support to the group.

Israeli troops two weeks ago boarded a flotilla of Turkish aid ships heading to Gaza on May 31 and killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, most of them Turks.

Public opinion in Muslim countries was outraged by the killings. An official of the Iranian Red Crescent Society's youth organisation said some 100,000 Iranians had volunteered as potential crew for aid ships, Iran daily reported.

A senior Iranian official said earlier Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were ready to provide a military escort to aid ships heading to Gaza if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei so commands. [ID:nLDE65509B]

But the Guards' deputy head, Hossein Salami, said there were no plans to do so. "Such a thing is not on our agenda," he was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Monday.

Any such military mobilisation would risk a major confrontation with Israel, which fears Iran's nuclear enrichment programme is aimed at developing atomic bombs.

The Jewish state regards Iran's nuclear ambitions as a mortal threat. Iran says its nuclear programme is meant solely to yield electricity or isotopes for medicine and agriculture.
 
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We should not be surprised. It was predicted last year during the "tour of bowing". The world senses weakness and is acting decisively ....


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roverMc said:
All jokes aside, keep your ass down ArmyRover and be safe. That's not our war, yet.
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As long as AMerican politicians continue to think that there is a biblical prophecy requiring our aid, it is our war.

While I hold no ill will to any of the Jewish faith, nor their homeland, I do have significant issues with the US giving as much money to Israel given the fact that they tend to support so many issues that we as Americans would likely not stand for (papers please).
 
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ptschram said:
As long as AMerican politicians continue to think that there is a biblical prophecy requiring our aid, it is our war.

While I hold no ill will to any of the Jewish faith, nor their homeland, I do have significant issues with the US giving as much money to Israel given the fact that they tend to support so many issues that we as Americans would likely not stand for (papers please).
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I always knew you were a hippie, PT. ;)

I agree with RoverMC on this one - keep your head down, ArmyRover! :patriot:
 
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Iran & Israel

Both are looking for a fight with the other and niether one will back down....this will get interesting.
 
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ptschram said:
Again, I agree with you, but the US hasn't had a good track record in recent history for backing the regime that ends up being the better of the options.
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Paul, get your head out of wherever it is.
Israel is a small island of humanity and civilization in the whole f'n region. It may make mistakes all right, but it stands for a something that's worth defending.
 
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p m said:
Paul, get your head out of wherever it is.
Israel is a small island of humanity and civilization in the whole f'n region. It may make mistakes all right, but it stands for a something that's worth defending.
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I just hope this was an outburst of sarcasm (If not: Do you stay on planet earth or somewhere in fairyland?)
 
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p m said:
Paul, get your head out of wherever it is.
Israel is a small island of humanity and civilization in the whole f'n region. It may make mistakes all right, but it stands for a something that's worth defending.
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I was referring to the practice of supporting one regime, only to later find that perhaps we should have supported the other.

I have my head where it belongs on this topic. It has not been that rare for American soldiers to be fired upon using weapons that had been given to a regime while it was friendly to US interests, only to find later those same arms being used against us.

The Americans seem to see Israel as a magical place, because, maybe, just maybe Jesus was the son of God and maybe, just maybe he did come out of the part of the world.

As for humanity and civilization, Beirut was the Paris of the mideast before the troubles, in what, '68?

Egypt would argue they are civilized, as would Abu Dhabi, Dubai, etc.

We don't have jobs here, we don't have much of an infrastructre here, we need aid here (well, maybe not), but we certainly spend way too much of our money on Israel.
 
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Educate me on what happened in 1968.

As for Egypt or Dubai - sure you must be kidding, or you haven't been watching the news about either lately.
 
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p m said:
Educate me on what happened in 1968.

As for Egypt or Dubai - sure you must be kidding, or you haven't been watching the news about either lately.
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Educate me what is in the "news" on Dubai? please!
 
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'67 Egypt kicked a bunch of UN out and did a blockade which led to the Six Days war... that was where Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights if memory proves.

Lands which have been fought over since 2,000 BCE (give or take)... Ottomans, Romans, British... everyone wants a piece. Wasn't it quoted in the declaration of the Israeli State that they will not overrun the rights of existing peoples living there?
 
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