The Israeli seizer of a cargo ship 100 miles off the coast of Israel, loaded with HUNDREDS of TONS of Iranian arms bound for Israel’s enemies – Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon - has predictably produced a lack of global outrage that will only serve to further discredit those who profess to own the moral high ground in judging Israel’s defensive wars on her borders.
Among the cargo aboard the seized ship were over 3,000 Katyusha rockets, which were used to kill over 1200 Israelis citizens during the most recent Israeli/Lebanon war. The containers on the ship were tracked from the moment they left Iran until they were seized by the Israelis, and the containers were clearly marked as originating from the “Iranian Shipping Lines Group”. Iranian fingerprints are not new to the armed conflicts surrounding Israel’s borders, and this is not the first time that and Iranian arms shipment has been intercepted.
My hope is that the Israeli government, led by PM Netanyahu, will put an end to the Iranian ruse of “plausible deniability” - allowing Iranian surrogates Hamas and Hezbollah to conduct Iran’s dirty business on Israel’s borders, while claiming they have nothing to do with it.
Israel has a score to settle with the extremist Iranian regime and their revolutionary guards that is not just about their ambitions to produce nuclear weapons. It is about the past 30 years of Iranian instigated terrorism on Israel’s borders. It must be noted that the recent riots and pitched battles led by the innocent Iranian people in the streets of Iran have shown that they don’t support the Ahmadinejad government and that they are victims too. The question is whether the self-appointed global leadership of the moral high ground (and President Obama) are going to align with Israel against Iran - and capitalize on the huge opportunity presented by this seized ship, or will they continue to disregard this vagrant violation of international law?
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