Perchoutofwater Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Iranian aid ships head for Gaza14 Jun 2010 09:27:23 GMT 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. I hope this doesn't get out of hand. This move will probably either end the blockade or start a war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 It's on. Or, Oh, diaper dirt, it's on. Or, this is not going to end well. Or, Allahu Akbar. Or: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored, He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on. His truth is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel, "As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;" Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel Since God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 ahh, more "peace activists" and "humanitarian aid" on their way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 I am sure this will end well . . And I bet they "armed" with hundreds of camcorders . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheikYerbuti Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 S#$T just got REAL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBalla Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 ahh, more "peace activists" and "humanitarian aid" on their way! Oh yea...they are a good people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 I am sure this will end well . . And I bet they "armed" with hundreds of camcorders . . I'm pretty sure these ships wil; be filled with Iranians and nobody else... the Flotilla ships had Americans and etc on it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duchess Jack Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Israel and Iran just need to get it on already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Like Soup Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Israel can take out Iran's entire navy in one felt swoop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Large majorities in congress back Israel in it's blockade of Gaza. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 (edited) Large majorities in congress back Israel in it's blockade of Gaza. Perch, have rocket attacks been completely stopped as a result of this blockade? If they have, then let it continue indefinitely. If it hasnt, then what is the point? Rockets still get in, to the whole point of the blockade is a failure, right? Edited June 24, 2010 by bpwallace49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Perch, have rocket attacks been completely stopped as a result of this blockade? If they have, then let it continue indefinitely. If it hasnt, then what is the point? you truly come up with some spectacularly dumb arguments. has airport security stopped every single would be terrorist? no? then what's the point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Go figure . . hawks support Israel 87 senators are all hawks? As Az pointed out your argument about the blockade is well, ill conceived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 you truly come up with some spectacularly dumb arguments. has airport security stopped every single would be terrorist? no? then what's the point? Az, isnt that the sole purpose of this blockade? To stop rocket attacks? If rocket attacks are still occuring on a regular basis, does it seem that other tactics are necessary? Or are you all for the blockade continuing indefinitely even though its objective isnt being accomplished? But I am suuure a deep thinker like yourself has already solved the problem? The difference is that airport security doesnt affect thousands of other people that have nothing to do with the flight. But I guess that is spectacularly "not dumb" to use as a comparison? I really dont care one way or the other, but it would seem that Israel needs to change tactics here if the blockade isnt succeeding in its purpose. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 87 senators are all hawks? As Az pointed out your argument about the blockade is well, ill conceived. You are right . . . it is supported by most of Congress. I withdraw my hawks comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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