Iran, Enjoying a World of Fools
Ron RossBridges for Peace News
Email: ronrossbfp@hotmail.com
November 9th, 2009
Just imagine the international furore if an Israeli ship had been intercepted smuggling weapons. Spokesmen/women from the USA, UK, EU and the Arab world would fall over themselves aggressively condemning what they would certainly proclaim to be ‘an act of war.’
So why the silence over the recent Israel Navy capture of a ship carrying rockets, missiles and anti-tank weapons apparently on the way to the Hezbollah arsenal?
The ship was detained November 3 on its way from Iran to Syria. (There’s that ugly four letter word again – Iran, also known in international circles as ‘The Untouchables!”)
500 tonnes of weapons were found hidden in 36 containers.
My sources in Israel say, “The ship’s manifest falsely described the containers as holding 24,224 sacks of polyethylene. In reality, the many inscriptions on the containers, the ship’s manifest and other documents, and the polyethylene sacks in the containers used to camouflage the weapons clearly show that the weapons came from Iran. They indicate that the Iranians, possibly overconfident, did not bother to conceal the weapons’ point of origin.”
Some of the weapons were high-quality, chiefly 60mm, 81mm and 120mm mortar shells produced between 2007 and 2009. The large quantity of rockets (about 2,800) equaled about 70% of those fired during the second Lebanon war (July 2006), when Hezbollah fired approximately 4,000 rockets of various types into Israeli territory,1 most of them 122mm rockets similar to those found on board the ship.
Our courageous political leaders remained silent. No one condemned Iran even though this Israeli capture was the second incident of its type in not much more than a week.
To add to the potential reason for the shipment, Israel leaders this week observed Hesbollah seems to be preparing for war.
On October 26 Yemen announced it seized the Iranian ship, Mahan 1 which was carrying mostly anit-tank weaponry. The shipment was for the Houthi Shi’ite rebels who fight against the Yemini army in the north of the country.
The Mahan 1 set sail from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
So why the silence? Are all our world leaders fools? Will it take a devastating terror attack to get some action?
Mind you, all we need is for Israel to take action to get a choir of protesters all singing protests from the same hymn book.
Right now Iran seems to be invisible. It’s just their weapons and tools of destruction that give them away.
While world leaders sit on their hands, others are on their knees in prayer. It’s that privilege of intercession that will win out in the long run but it certainly would be nice to see at least one or two politicians earning their keep.
