Monday, June 07, 2010

Iran, Hamas seek global anti-Israel bloc


JPOST.COM STAFF

Flotilla fiasco encourages leaders to form pro-Palestinian front.


An international front to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip should be formed, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday in a phone conversation with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, the Teheran Times reported.

“This criminal action revealed the real nature of the Zionists,” Ahmadinejad said, adding that now the approach of countries toward this outrageous action would be a “test for their honesty.” According to the Teheran Times report Haniyeh said that Iran is the only nation that has always been on the side of the Palestinian nation. “We should try to revive the Palestinian nation’s violated rights and end the siege of Gaza,” he added.

On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki thanked Europe and the international community for the "harsh response" to Israel's "barbaric commando
operation," saying Iran identified with the "shahids" who were killed in the IDF raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla.

In the days since the Navy's raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla on Monday, condemnations have been streaming in from Arab countries. Messages of carefully-couched rebuke have been coming from Israel's allies, many urging Israel to include an “international element” in any commission of inquiry into the incident, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.

Comment: Here is the more discouraging news. We, here in Israel, understand that the flotilla is merely another "test for the West". What do I mean? Our enemies are testing the following: our strategies, our tactics and most importantly our resolve. They engage in a stunt they know we will prevail but they examine how we responded and especially await how Washington DC responds. Our enemy is pushing to see the outside limits of Washington's appeasement protocol. They interpret the Obama Administration as fundamentally weak. In addition our enemy is setting up what I call "push back points"that once reached reset the code of behavior accepted here in the ME. Historians will write that this could have been avoided had a strong government in the USA stood up for Israel and stood side by side here as value depraved Westerners took the coward's way out. You see, it takes courage and a backbone to stand against those who want to destroy you one value at a time! Note that our enemies are unafraid to stand up for what they believe, they careless about offensive behavior; rather they are on the offensive by claiming that which they use as a weapon.

1 comment:

Reaganite Independent said...

Israel would wipe the floor with Iran… nukes or not

But Obama’s forcing their hand by OKing the Russian S-300 air defense system for Tehran- Israel’s not just going to sit back and let that happen

As Bolton says, the time for Israel to strike is NOW:

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-bolton-israel-must-strike-iran-now.html