Iran offers to defend convoys going to Israel

The proverbial shit is about to hit the fan if this happens. Start paying attention people because the world is one big bomb on a short fuse. We have two major hot spots right now Korea and Israel. Those two can blow at any moment and it WILL affect America. We have our hands deeply embedded in both situations. 30,000 troops are stationed in Korea and if Israel goes to war with any Muslim country our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the middle. That is not to mention that Israel is an ally we support and would be expected to help.

Taking our troops in the middle east out of the equation, I am not worried about Israel. They have beaten the crap out of their neighbors many times in the past. The Palestinians are actually in the mess they are because of the first attack on Israel just days after they were recognized as a country. Israel started very small and are only as big as they are due to their victories in battle. They would be even bigger if they hadn't been gracious enough to give back land to Egypt after whipping up on them. They conquered, after being attacked first, the entire Sinai Peninsula and later returned it.

I have gotten onto a soap box again, but these are people to be supported. Warriors who want to prosper and live their lives. People who have been attacked and hated since the beginning of recorded history. Yet I have never heard of them laying down and giving up. No matter where they are these people seem to prosper and for that they are vilified and hated. They took a little piece of sand and turned it into a functioning country and successfully defended it, repeatedly, against overwhelming odds.

Just like America, the only way for these people to be defeated is internally and by succumbing to international pressure from the clinically brain dead.

Iran has warned that it could send Revolutionary Guard naval units to escort humanitarian aid convoys seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza – a move that would certainly be challenged by Israel.



Any such Iranian involvement, raised today by an aide to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would constitute a serious escalation of already high tensions with Israel, which accuses Tehran of seeking to build a nuclear weapon and of backing Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza.


"Iran's Revolutionary Guard naval forces are prepared to escort the peace and freedom convoys that carry humanitarian assistance for the defenceless and oppressed people of Gaza with all their strength," pledged Hojjatoleslam Ali Shirazi, Khamenei's personal representative to the guards corps.


The threat came as the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, dismissed a UN proposal for an international commission to investigate last week's commando assault on aid ships, in which nine people died. Another aid ship, the Rachel Corrie, carrying Irish and other peace activists, was boarded peacefully by Israeli forces on Saturday, escorted to the port of Ashdod, and its passengers deported.


Netanyahu has defended Israel's right to maintain the blockade by arguing that without it Gaza would become an "Iranian port" and Hamas missiles would strike Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel's undeclared aim is to weaken or bring down the Hamas government.


Iran continued to exploit the "freedom flotilla" affair to lambast Israel. Its foreign minister, Manuchehr Mottaki, told the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Jeddah on Sunday that Israel's crime was "another instance of the Zionist regime's brazen and merciless treatment of Muslims, especially the oppressed Palestinian people."


Mottaki also called for a UN resolution condemning Israel. The security council is discussing imposing new sanctions on Iran because of its failure to meet international demands over its nuclear programme.


Iran and Israel have had no diplomatic relations since the 1979 revolution and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regularly predicts the disappearance of the Jewish state as well as denying the Holocaust.


Shirazi said Iran should encourage international efforts to break the blockade. "We should expose our enemies to spontaneous global action and not let them achieve their heinous goals," he was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.


Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which have a command structure separate from the regular armed forces, are fiercely loyal to the supreme leader. Khamenei has attacked the raid as a "mistake" that "showed how barbaric the Zionists are".


Israel's determination to strike at links between Iran and Hamas was dramatically demonstrated in January when presumed Mossad agents in Dubai assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was described as the Hamas official in charge of smuggling Iranian weapons into Gaza.


Israel's no-compromise attitude to aid convoys could be tested again after two Lebanese organisations pledged to send boats to Gaza in the next few days. Reporters Without Borders is attempting to assemble 25 European activists and 50 journalists for a boat leaving Beirut. The Free Palestine Movement is planning a similar attempt.


George Galloway, the founder of Viva Palestina, announced in London that two simultaneous convoys "one by land via Egypt and the other by sea" would set out in September to break the Gaza blockade. The sea convoy of up to 60 ships will travel around the Mediterranean gathering ships, cargo and volunteers.