Israeli Diplomats Ordered to Use Arms Ship Capture to Marshall Anti- Iran Sentiment
Israeli security forces late Wednesday released on its originally planned route a ship believed to have been carrying tons of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah, which it seized earlier this week in Mediterranean waters.
The ship was set to continue to Turkey and then to Egypt.Israel completed unloading the cargo on Thursday morning and decided that the crew of the vessel had no connection to the weapons found on board.
The Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group on Thursday denied any connection to the 500 tons of weapons seized by Israeli commandos during a raid on the ship.
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"Hezbollah denies any link to the weapons that the Zionist enemy claims it removed from the vessel Francop," the group said in a statement. "At the same time it condemns Israeli piracy in international waters."
The Hezbollah response came after Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said reports of the seizure were fabricated
Israel's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, invited foreign ambassadors to the Ashdod port to view the tons of seized weapons.
The Foreign Ministry also issued a document to Israeli embassies and consulates around the world on Wednesday, instructing employees to utilize Israel's seizure of the ship, believed to have been shipped by Iran and meant for Hezbollah, to direct international pressure toward Iran.
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It wouldn't surprise me a bit
if Israeli agents put that shipment of weapons on the boat, with the express purposes of seizing the boat in the Mediterranean, and blaming it on Iran.
That would be typical Israeli behavior.
They need to provide ostensible "reasons" for their their upcoming assaults on other nations and peoples.
No surprise to me either
Now they are calling it a war crime
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the ship carrying hundreds of tons of weapons believed to have originated in Iran and meant for Hezbollah, which Israel intercepted early Wednesday, constituted a war crime that should be reviewed by United Nations bodies.
""This is a war crime which Iran intends to commit again in the future. The international community should be focusing on this, but instead, the world condemns Israel and the Israel Defense Forces and undermines our right to self defense," he said, referring to Wednesday's UN General Assembly debate over the Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of having committed war crimes in Gaza last winter.
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http://www.haaretz.com/ha...
This is interesting also:
Russia’s Daring Vote
http://www.israelshamir.n...
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"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
The language that Netanyahu used
in those comments makes me all the more convinced that this was a "work" designed to deflect the impact of the Goldstone Report on Israeli atrocities and war crimes in Gaza, and try to re-focus the debate onto Iran.
To even try to equate this shipment to Israel's wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians in hospitals and of schoolchildren, and the use of banned warfare agents like white phosphorous in the Gaza Massacre, is about the most callous thing that I think I've ever heard.
And I repeat, this language makes me much more sure it was an Israeli planted weapons shipment that they put there to shift the focus of blame away from them.
It's sickening.
Big T Yes...see this
"Meanwhile, the Hamas movement in Gaza said that the Israeli statements regarding Hamas’ successful tests on news “missiles’ clearly prove that Israel is trying to divert world attention from the Goldstone report."
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
http://www.imemc.org/inde...
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"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd