Israel seizes weapons boat en route to Palestinians from Jordan

A small boat, but with serious cargo, including "assault rifles, ammunition and other weapons." As noted below, this sort of thing has a funny way of happening from time to time, though not all are as large, famous, or embarrassing as the Karine A. "Israel 'intercepts weapons boat' in Dead Sea," from BBC News, July 25:

Israeli authorities say they have seized a boat carrying arms in the Dead Sea and are questioning two Palestinians who were on the vessel.

The boat was carrying assault rifles, ammunition and other weapons, according to an Israeli military statement.

AFP news agency quoted the military as saying the weapons were being transported from Jordan to the Palestinian territories.

In March, Israel intercepted a ship it said was taking arms to the Gaza Strip.

It said that ship, which was seized in international waters, was carrying weapons meant for militant groups that were to be delivered via Egypt.

The Israeli military described the boat that was reported to have been seized on Monday as a dinghy.

In 2006, Israel detained an Israeli and a Jordanian accused of using an inflatable boat to smuggle guns and drugs from Jordan to Israel.

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dumbledoresarmy | July 26, 2011 3:43 AM | Reply

"Palestinians".

Local Arab Muslims.

ewha1 | July 26, 2011 8:04 AM | Reply

The assault both in terrorist terms and in the media against the state of Israel is just relentless.

And that's the key word, "relentless".

You see it in the media with the lies, distortions, lying by omission, etc and also with the terrorist activities of myriad and well funded groups.

Real Jew | July 26, 2011 3:34 PM | Reply

So every single nation or race in the world has the right to self defense or to amass weapons but the Palestinians? A people forced to live under a cruel occupation and blockade that has been condemned by every country in the world, the 5 plus 1 In the Security Council, and every single Human Rights group. God forbid they get a couple of rifles and mortars to fight back against one of the strongest and immoral army in the world.

Israel the only country that possess massive amounts of nuclear weapons too scared to admit it for fear of losing US aid. Under US law any country in possession of illegal nuclear weapons are not qualified for aid of any kind

dumbledoresarmy | August 1, 2011 4:30 AM | Reply

Observe, ladies and gentlemen.

The Mohammedan dementor in a mask, the so-called "Real Jew", has just proved 'ewha's point.

It is the *Jews* whose right to nationhood - to self-determination - is uniquely denied.

it is the *Jews* who live under siege.

Every statement made above by 'real jew' - that Mohammedan in a mask - is turnspeak and a reversal of reality so total as to be almost obscene.

And as for nukes: if the Israelis have them, they are far safer in Israeli hands than in the hands of *any* other entity in the world.

http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/by-popular-request.html

And something from Hugh Fitzgerald, on the subject of those who, like 'real jew', deplore the possibility that Israel has nuclear weapons.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/us-backs-resolution-to-disarm-israel.html

Hugh | May 31, 2010 12:22 PM | Reply

"Look, the whole thing is very simple.

"There are 350 million Arabs, who control 22 states and a land area more than a thousand times the area of Israel.

"There is Islam-maddened mahdi-maddened Iran, with a land area by itself twenty or thirty times the size of Israel.

"There are the vast oil resources that is a gift that keeps on giving, to Arabs and Iranians alike -- some thirteen trillion dollars since 1973 alone -- money that pays for diplomatic assaults, propaganda aided and abetted by Western hirelings, some of them true Believers and antisemites, others merely in it for the money.

"More than a trillion of that money has gone to buy Western arms, and to pay for projects related to nuclear weapons, and other weapons of mass destruction.

"If you want Israel to survive, then you have to understand that there will never ever be a day when Israel can afford to give up its nuclear arsenal. Never.

"If you are murderously hostile to Israel, or merely coldly and cruelly indifferent to its fate, then you will pretend not to understand this, and will aid and abet those Arabs and other Muslims who recognize that in order to destroy Israel they must first get rid of its nuclear arsenal.

"That will not bring peace but certain war, and the war will be one of Israel's destruction, and the mass killing -- have no doubt about it -- of the Jews of Israel.

"That's it. There is nothing else you need to know.

"Those who call for a nuclear-free Middle East are calling for the destruction of the Jews of Israel.
End of story."

And a succinct summary of why it is that the Muslim world wages its war without end against the Jewish state of Israel...which war is only a part of the Muslim war without end against the whole of non-Muslim humanity, against all who refuse to bow to the false 'prophet', Mohammed ha-Meshugga the Mad One.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/why_islam_will_never_accept_th.html

Why Islam Will Never Accept the State of Israel

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