Fool me once: France’s foreign minister is volunteering the EU to inspect all ships heading into Gaza. I have two words for you, Mr. Kouchner: UNSC 1701. In case anyone forgot, the reason Israel left the buffer zone in Lebanon is because the United Nations passed a resolution forbidding arms into Lebanon, and UNIFIL troops (the “U” stands for “Useless”) were sent to take over the buffer zone. The result? Hezballah is now a member of the Lebanese government and has more, deadlier, and longer-range rockets than before. So I’m thinking that Israel is going to take a pass on this offer from the generous EU. We have seen, time and again, that when the world offers to take control of Jews’ defense, Jews die.
Just call me a Netanyahu advisor: I told Bibi to add an international observer to the probe of the Lady Marmalade attack. He listened. (I’m so verklempt!)
Iran is testing the waters: I think I was wrong. Iran is smelling blood in the water, and sending the sharks to Israel. Say, let’s take a pool on how many Revolutionary Guards will be on the “relief worker” ship. My guess: All but one or two. No way this one ends well if Iran really sends the ship. Those will be armed soldiers on board.
Kudos to—Kerry? The Democrats do not appear to be abandoning Israel in droves, after all. At least, not the politicians. He told ABC that Israel is not a liability to the U.S. Good for you, John.
By the way—there was an attempted terror attack off the Gaza coast: Really, did they think the Israeli Navy were all busily looking for more blockade breakers? The Navy killed at least four terrorists “training” in the waters off Gaza. How did the AP describe them? “Four men wearing wet suits.” Seriously. By the way, al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is claiming them. That would be Fatah. Israel’s partners in peace. Shyeah. Pull the other leg, Abbas.
Running a naval blockade is itself an act of war. One thing the people supporting the “free gaza” movement don’t understand. Once you declare you’re going to break it you can be stopped using any force needed. Iran knows Obama is on the fence. Not really, he’s on Iran’s side concerning Israel pretty much. But publicly he can’t just dump Israel without a REALLY good sounding reason, or he knows he done for. No second term, as conservatives aren’t stupid enough to hand him 12 million more Democrat voters with illegal alien reform. He needs Jewish money, and support to win.
So what he needs is an excuse. Iran will give it to him. If they attempt to run the blockade, Israel will attack. Expect Obama to do a full court press while Iran’s ships steam towards Gaza. Expect him to remind Israel and Americans that Iran has promised to halt the flow of oil in the gulf, and that it would cause a major second dip recession, if not a depression. Expect Iran to remind us as well.
Obama will tell Israel that this needs to go to the UN. That any action on their part to stop the Iranian navy will cause us to “rethink” our support. At least temporarily.
For Israel it’s a matter of:
Do we cave now, and fight Hamas after it’s gotten bigger rockets after the collapse of the blockade. OR do we fight Iran now, and get it over with…
I’d do it now. In a year they are nuclear, and in a year there will be thousands more missiles in Iranian proxy hands.
Remind Obama that this is a problem one that will get worse over time. Remind the Muslim countries that are going to whine that if we don’t fight Iran, they might as well hand over the keys to Iran right now.