What, Another One?
Yep, another one. The world is just bursting with humanitarians eager to demonstrate their devotion to the cause of the horribly suffering Palestinians in Gaza. Those warehouses of new refrigerators awaiting purchase in Gaza - thanks to the thriving smuggling industry where Hamas gets first crack at renting out tunnel space permits - don't really exist. Nor do those luxury vehicles - also smuggled, no longer piecemeal, but fully operational-with-no-assembly-required - exist.
The high-end restaurants, and the new housing raffled off to benefit the supporters of Hamas, while Fatah supporters struggle with improvising living arrangements resulting from the collapse of their homes under IDF reciprocal bombardments are another feature of the collapsed economy of Gaza. Unemployment may be rife in the Gaza Strip, but the world stands ready as it has done for 60 years, to keep on funding the refugees who resolutely refuse to give up that status.
"Another one" away back up there refers, of course, to yet another humanitarian flotilla bringing relief and supplies to the starving people of Gaza. The public-relations success of the last one out of Turkey has inspired Iran to become more involved in rescuing Palestinians in Gaza from their intolerable plight. Two ships in Iran are awaiting anticipated approval to set out from Tehran. And the Red Crescent is standing by to do their part in the aid mission.
Sound familiar? The International Committee of the Red Cross has apparently given its assent for its Islamic arm to verge from its neutral humanitarian position to direct political-"humanitarian" involvement in a rather complex and very ideologically-political, with a huge helping of religion, stand-off. The Red Crescent has announced the likelihood of a three-ship flotilla set to break the embargo of Gaza-bound shipments of "supplies".
Moreover, although a hundred thousand eager Iranians have pledged to man the aid-rescue ships, Red Crescent official Mojtaba Majd insists that only those with "expertise" would be accepted. Presumably, the kind of expertise required to qualify for inclusion on the humanitarian aid mission would reflect those skilled in hand-to-hand combat seen in the earlier flotilla manned by Turkish 'volunteers'.
The blockade that defies humanity in ensuring that weapons do not reach Iran's proxy-Hamas militias must be broken.
So says Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard, for it is clearly "Iran's duty to defend the innocent people of Gaza." Who will defend the innocent people of Iran, who have been arrested, imprisoned, brutalized and murdered in a popular and still-simmering post-election uprising against the totalitarian theistic regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is another matter entirely, unfortunately.
Oh, and it is so piquant that the government of Turkey is assisting the Iranian Red Crescent ships in their humanitarian mission.
The high-end restaurants, and the new housing raffled off to benefit the supporters of Hamas, while Fatah supporters struggle with improvising living arrangements resulting from the collapse of their homes under IDF reciprocal bombardments are another feature of the collapsed economy of Gaza. Unemployment may be rife in the Gaza Strip, but the world stands ready as it has done for 60 years, to keep on funding the refugees who resolutely refuse to give up that status.
"Another one" away back up there refers, of course, to yet another humanitarian flotilla bringing relief and supplies to the starving people of Gaza. The public-relations success of the last one out of Turkey has inspired Iran to become more involved in rescuing Palestinians in Gaza from their intolerable plight. Two ships in Iran are awaiting anticipated approval to set out from Tehran. And the Red Crescent is standing by to do their part in the aid mission.
Sound familiar? The International Committee of the Red Cross has apparently given its assent for its Islamic arm to verge from its neutral humanitarian position to direct political-"humanitarian" involvement in a rather complex and very ideologically-political, with a huge helping of religion, stand-off. The Red Crescent has announced the likelihood of a three-ship flotilla set to break the embargo of Gaza-bound shipments of "supplies".
Moreover, although a hundred thousand eager Iranians have pledged to man the aid-rescue ships, Red Crescent official Mojtaba Majd insists that only those with "expertise" would be accepted. Presumably, the kind of expertise required to qualify for inclusion on the humanitarian aid mission would reflect those skilled in hand-to-hand combat seen in the earlier flotilla manned by Turkish 'volunteers'.
The blockade that defies humanity in ensuring that weapons do not reach Iran's proxy-Hamas militias must be broken.
So says Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard, for it is clearly "Iran's duty to defend the innocent people of Gaza." Who will defend the innocent people of Iran, who have been arrested, imprisoned, brutalized and murdered in a popular and still-simmering post-election uprising against the totalitarian theistic regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is another matter entirely, unfortunately.
Oh, and it is so piquant that the government of Turkey is assisting the Iranian Red Crescent ships in their humanitarian mission.
Labels: Human Relations, Middle East, Terrorism, Traditions
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