Iran Red Crescent to send aid to Gaza
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Humanitarian, or political?Quote:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/06/07/iran.gaza.aid/index.html?hpt
Iran's Red Crescent Society will try to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza by sending food and medical supplies to the besieged Palestinian territory, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.
Red Crescent official Abdul Rauf Adibzadeh said one shipment of relief goods will arrive in Gaza via Egypt by the end of the week, Iranian media reported.
The aid group is also preparing to send two relief ships to the coast of Gaza, including a hospital ship with doctors, nurses and operating rooms and another vessel with more relief goods like food and medication, the IRNA and Mehr news agencies reported.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the Iranian ships will be part of a new aid flotilla organized by several Islamic countries, though he declined to say which countries are involved.
He called it "strictly a humanitarian effort for the people of Gaza."
"We are preparing two ships to head for Gaza that will provide humanitarian aid," Mehmanparast said. "Their departure depends on how soon we coordinate with other countries that are also sending aid ships. The process of organizing the operation is under way."
Separately, a "Jewish boat" is planning to try to reach Gaza, two pro-Palestinian European Jewish groups announced Monday.
"Our purpose is to call an end to the siege of Gaza, to this illegal collective punishment of the whole civilian population," Edith Lutz said on behalf of European Jews for a Just Peace in the Near East and Jews for Justice for Palestinians.
The group is not saying when the boat is sailing or where it is leaving from "in order to avoid sabotage," Lutz said.
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I loathe equivocation, but both? Clearly, Gaza needs humanitarian aid (not as much as they need new leadership), and clearly Iran would love to offer it for humanitarian reasons. If they can do so in a manner that allows them to challenge the blockade and Israel's general existence, so much the better! Don't forget that Gaza suffers, or that Iran has a habit of loudly threatening Israel. For whatever reason, folks tend not to take these threats too seriously. Iranians with avowed genocidal intent are cuddly.
To me, this is an instance of good motives being deliberately mingled with shitty ones.
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Do people even remember that Hamas is sending rockets into Israel from Gaza. This is an act of war. I would guess other nations would set up a blockade when attacked like this. Israel has told these ships to dock in Israel and the supplies that passed their inspection would be delivered. This is more then any other nation would do. In war, any other nation would have a total blockade and allow nothing through.
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Traveler right on, Israel could crush them anytime. They clean house every now and then because it is to much to take. They make sure they get their aid. But they have to take security procautions. I think about the Palestian Christians in the west bank. Hope they are getting what they need.
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Originally posted by traveler:
Do people even remember that Hamas is sending rockets into Israel from Gaza. This is an act of war. I would guess other nations would set up a blockade when attacked like this. Israel has told these ships to dock in Israel and the supplies that passed their inspection would be delivered. This is more then any other nation would do. In war, any other nation would have a total blockade and allow nothing through.
They remember; they just don't give a damn. The Palestinians firing rockets are, after all, heroic freedom fighters nobly resisting The Man, who is kosher. Thus, the rockets are not an act of war, or terrorism, or even violence, but rather social justice.
Screw the blockade, and all other forms of collective punishment (like launching rockets at civilians). Yet the sin-eating alligator prefers the rockets. Blockade < rockets.
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Originally posted by CatPirate:
Traveler right on, Israel could crush them anytime. They clean house every now and then because it is to much to take. They make sure they get their aid. But they have to take security procautions. I think about the Palestian Christians in the west bank. Hope they are getting what they need.
Does it matter that they're Xtian?
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I tend to agree, Mincing: Both. It's convenient to do something seen as selfless which also furthers your political agenda, so you're probably right.
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Nikki,
We often agree, which I attribute to the wholesome climate of Northern California, and your tremendous good sense.
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Yup, it's both - they want to get aid to Palestinians, sure, but they want to challenge the blockade now that the whole world is watching, and they want to provoke Israel.
Mike
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