In just a few hours, Wednesday Israel time, a new plan to change the Gaza blockade, hammered out between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Tony Blair, the West’s ‘envoy to the Middle East’, should come before the Israeli cabinet of ministers for approval. This is reported in main stream Israeli media and worldwide, so it has a high likelihood of actually happening.

What is not so clear is whether the cabinet will approve the measures set before it, which essentially puts the examination of goods coming into Gaza in international hands. (more…)

Apparently Iran wants to take center stage within the whirlwind of the Gaza blockade.

1. Intelligence sources report  that one Iranian ship with aid for Gaza set sail from Khomanshahr, Iran, a port town locally known as Sedeh, on Monday. A second ship is set to leave port on Saturday.

Apparently the cargo will be aid for the Gazans only. There is no news about a third ship reported earlier too hold Republican Army military personnel… sorry, volunteers.

There is also no word about whether there will be any symbiosis with Turkey or Turkish ships. It appears the Iranians want the limelight unimpeded by a Turkish presence. There seems to be (more…)

Israel intelligence sources report Iran is waiting for final approval from their head men to send two ships toward Gaza on Sunday, Israel time, to break the Gaza blockade. They may sail at any hour now. Or approval may not be granted. No mention of Turkish ships.

Iran’s official news service reports Malaysia to send aid convoys to Gaza next month. They do not mention Iranian ships heading to Gaza.

Like so much currently, credibility of any report before actual action is of a lower order of probability than a few weeks ago.

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Coming full circle, the official Saudi Department of Information has denied any such activities as reported in the previous two blogs on this website.

Sigh.

It would mean more if that department were not known by those who know it as the ‘Department of Denial’. (more…)

Yes. Apparently it is true. (more…)

Is this true? All three of the major mainline news agencies of Israel are reporting the same story… quoting the London Times.

The articles say that Saudi Arabia has firmly agreed to let the IAF (Israel Air Force) pass through their airspace for a bombing raid on Iranian nuclear facilities. (more…)

The Red Crescent is the symbol of the IFRC, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which is the world’s largest humanitarian organization. It is comprised of disaster, rescue and emergency medical organizations from 186 member nations. The United States is one. Israel, Turkey and Iran are some others.

Their website says, “our work is guided by seven fundamental principles; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.”

The Turkish Red Crescent and Israel’s Magen David Adom, which also runs the ambulances in Israel, joined together to evacuate Turkish citizens wounded during the disaster that came from Israel boarding the flotilla which tried to break the blockade of Gaza.

Now the Iranian Red Crescent is about to enter the picture in Gaza. According to Mid East sources which usually have 85-plus percent reliability, three Iranian ships flying the Red Crescent will accompany the next flotilla sponsored by Turkey which will try to run the Gaza blockade in the next few days.

One ship will carry humanitarian aid, one a hospital ship to be anchored in Egyptian territorial waters, and the third, perhaps a little outside the normal purview of the Red Crescent societies, will carry marines of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. (more…)

According to very probably Mossad sources, Osama bin Laden has been in a small town outside the capitol of Iran for the past five years.

This worldclass intelligence information was leaked to the US and others at this time for obvious reasons. Israel has become a worldclass pariah in the eyes of the world community because of their handling of the ships that tried to break the Gaza blockade. Turkey is thinking about pressing that issue to the point of making it a flashpoint for regional war.

Israel, by throwing this flash-bang onto the world stage (more…)