Archive for the ‘Israeli conflict’ Category

I  was hoping to write about a more pleasant subject today - and not only about the maritime blockade to  Gaza, but unfortunately that is still at the head of our news.

I mentioned the Irish ship briefly on Sunday, but that has become old news - they gave in peacefully, sailed to Ashdod port where their supplies were examined, found suitable, before  being transferred to Gaza by land.

Strangely enough, the equipment taken off the Turkish ships earlier last week, is still in our hands.

The Hamas have refused to allow it to be transferred to Gaza. The equipment includes food products, medicine that has expired, as well as used clothing, wheelchairs,
couches and carpets, is being stored.

Now, why don’t they want this “humanitarian” aid?

Now we hear that Iran will also be sending two ships to break the blockade, and if they do so we hope there will not be further trouble.

The Iranian regime is constantly calling for Israel “to be wiped off the map” and has a proven track record of supplying dangerous weapons to Hamas in Gaza and Hizbullah in Lebanon.

Obviously, any shipment from Iran would be a major concern for Israel.

But as before,  the so called free nations of the world are ready to condemn Israel for not allowing “humanitarian” aid into Gaza.

It is time for the world to get their facts straight. There is NO humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Palestinian leadership lives in luxury on the millions of dollars of aid sent to them.

Israel allows ample supplies of food, medical supplies and
all necessary items for normal living into Gaza via the crossing check points.

The only items not allowed into Gaza are those that can be used to manufacture explosives and rockets.

Hundreds of Gaza residents are being treated in Israeli hospitals. Israel supplies Gaza with electricity, fuel and water.

The only demand by Israel of all the the Humanitarian convoys is to dock in an Israeli port from where the supplies can be checked before being sent overland into Gaza.

It is difficult to imagine that Turkey would freely allow “Unchecked Humanitarian Aid” to reach the Kurdish people in their struggle for autonomy,  so also the British with regards to the IRA, the Spanish to allow aid to the Basques and other countries facing terror problems.

I am sure that NATO forces in Iraq and Afghanistan would not freely allow humanitarian aid to reach the Taliban and El Qaida terrorists.

So why are the European countries behaving like an ostrich, hiding their heads in the sand, not seeing
the real truth?

I sure hope I’ll have a nicer subject to write about next time.

Shalom from Irene

There is now apparently a European plan to unilaterally declare Jerusalem as the Capital of a Palestinian State.The plan will reportedly be proposed at a monthly meeting of European Union ministers today in Brussels by Sweden, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.

Since when do foreign countries decide the destiny of another State? And it seems that it is always Israel which has its fate decided on - no other country that I can think of.

Knesset members from across the political spectrum condemned this Swedish led plan by the European Union.  “Jerusalem must never be divided, because it would only enhance the conflict and not solve it,” said Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, ” Dividing the capital would create a volcanic eruption that would not be easy to stop. Splitting sovereignty would bring about complete chaos,” he said, adding that Israel had proven that adherents of Judaism, Islam and Christianity could live together in Jerusalem.

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Last week an explosion took place in a private house in southern Lebanon. At once all thought this was a so-called “work accident ”by the Hizbullah terrorist organization, but as they are not allowed to keep weapons south of the Litani river, they of course denied this at once, claiming that the explosion was caused by IDF  (Israel defence Forces) leaving explosives behind during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. But we know this is not so, but that thousands of weapons caches have been placed in homes scattered in 160 villages in southern Lebanon,

The day after this stockpile exploded in the home of a Hizbullah operative in Tayr Filsay, near Tyre , Israeli senior defense officials said that the IDF had a video taken from an Israeli aircraft of the home, which belongs to Abdul Nasser Issa, a low-level Hizbullah operative. The blast took place at around 8 p.m. , and an hour later Hizbullah men were seen on the film carrying weapons out of the home and loading them onto a truck. In the footage, seven men are seen carrying a four-meter-long device, thought to be a Katyusha rocket or launcher. Hizbullah is thought to have more than 30,000 rockets of various ranges and sizes. The men took several hours to clear the home. For the first few hours, the area was sealed off by Hizbullah and the Lebanese army. The Israeli aircraft followed the truck as it drove about 4 km. to another village called Deir Qanoun al-Nahr. There, the truck pulled up at another home and the group of men unloaded the weapons. “Hizbullah uses civilian homes to hide its weaponry,” an IDF officer said. “This is a direct violation of UN [Security Council] Resolution 1701.

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Last week a report on the Gaza conflict was published by the “Goldstone Commision” of the UN Human Rights Council and as expected, it seems to blame Israel for everything that happened during the war in Gaza. No mention is made of what led up to the necessary fighting, no mention of the continuous rocket firing by Hamas into Israeli civilian centers for many years. The Palestinian terrorists are referred to as “armed groups” and the Palestinian leadership is called “Responsible Palestinian Authorities”.

The fact that those “responsible” Arabs always hid behind women and children, fired from hospitals, schools and other public buildings was completely ignored by the Goldstone Comission, and that therefore when our soldiers were defending themselves, civilians were hurt and killed, this fact was not mentioned. All the blame as usual, was put on Israel.

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Today I’ll begin my blog with a couple of health subjects. First of all the Swine Flue again, which seems to be spreading more quickly than before, and some 2,000 Israelis have been diagnosd with it according to the Health Ministry, but they estimate that the actual number of people infected with the virus in Israel is much higher, due to carriers who have not been tested. They say that vaccine is going to be bought from abroad, but it is feared it will be late in coming. In the meanwhile different precautions are being taken for crowded places, especially schools, as the new school year begins in about three weeks.

Another health “problem” seems to be a children’s cooking program on television, which a large group of pediatricians want removed. They say the things cooked on this program are all unhealthy ones, containing much fat, sugar and chocolate. Children should eat healthy non-fattening foods. So far I have not heard of any response to this complaint from the TV channel.

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