Israel-Iran clash approaches

Old Trooper sends us a link to the latest reports about the threatened deployment of Iranian Navy vessels expected off the coast of the Gaza strip;

One ship left port on Sunday and another will depart by Friday, loaded with food, construction material and toys, the report said. The boats would be part of international efforts to break Israel’s isolation of the Gaza Strip.

“Until the end of the Gaza blockade, Iran will continue to ship aid,” said an official at Iran’s Society for the Defence of the Palestinian Nation.

While Israel has long suspected Iran, which rejects the Jewish state’s right to exist, of supplying weapons to Hamas, Tehran says it only provides moral support to the group.

In the meantime, Saudi Arabia denies reports that they granted permission to the Israelis to use Saudi airspace to attack Iranian nuclear facilities (Bloomberg link);

Saudi Arabia rejects “the violation of its sovereignty and the use of its airspace or territory by anyone to attack any country,” the official Saudi Press Agency said late yesterday, citing an unidentified official at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. “It is more appropriate that Saudi Arabia should apply this policy to the authority of the Israeli occupation with which it has no relationship in any way.”

The Times reported yesterday that Saudi Arabia agreed to allow Israel to use its airspace to make bombing raids on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The newspaper cited unidentified people. Saudi Arabia would ensure that the bombers pass through an area in the north of the country without its missile defense systems being activated, the newspaper said.

Israel is the last hope of the civilized world while an impotent UN churns out strongly-worded letters and ineffective sanctions against Iran.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Terror War