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Iran  Provoking Israel and Mocking The World

There is a news report that Iran is sending three supply ships to challenge the Gaza blockade. The tyrannical regime is doing this under the guise of providing medical assistance to the supposedly starving people in Gaza on ships flying the Red Crescent flag (The Islamic version of the Red Cross.)

This provocative act is being organized with the militant government of Turkey. To add fuel to the fire Iran's Revolutionary Guard is planning on sending military escort ships.Given the barbaric nature of the Iranian regime, this stunt (that could develop into a very dangerous confrontation) is comparable to Nazi Germany sending "aid" to the victims in the Warsaw Ghetto.

The Iranians, the Turks, and Hamas have the opportunity to exploit the international stage because the civilized world, led by the Obama Administration, has allowed them to behave badly while it has focused every form of criticism on Israel. That Iran that is being economically raped by its own Revolutionary Guard makes laughable its new role of savior of the Palestinian people.

It also is another demonstration of the failure of the Obama administration's policy of engaging the tyrants of Tehran. On the geopolitical front this is one more move by Iran to gain supremacy on Israel's borders by currying favor with the Arab street. These developments heighten the threats against Israel, the United States, and the West.For anyone who wants to know the truth about the humanitarian situation in Gaza we strongly recommend reading the new report issued by the Jerusalem Center. In short there is no humanitarian crisis.

According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs there are several myths concerning starving people in Gaza.

· Since 2007, Israel has maintained a legal maritime blockade around Gaza whose purpose is to keep rockets and other weapons out of the hands of Hamas, while letting food and other humanitarian aid in. Yet there have been a wide variety of officials and commentators who insist that Gaza is starving, setting the stage for the repeated efforts of "humanitarian" ships to break the Gaza blockade.

· Gaza is not cut off from the outside world. In the last year, the markets of Gaza have been flooded with produce and merchandise. In fact, in 2009, a total of 30,576 truckloads of humanitarian commodities passed from Israel into Gaza. From June 2007 (the date of the Hamas military takeover of Gaza), overall monetary transfers to Gaza have totaled over $5 billion from governmental and extragovernmental sources. The governor of the Central Bank of the Palestinian Authority, Jihad al-Wazir, confirmed that 56 percent of the PA budget is designated for Gaza. Gaza receives additional aid funds directly from Iran and the Arab countries.

· There is also an established economic system of Palestinian imports from Egypt via hundreds of tunnels operating under the control of a Hamas government that grants approval for operating them and collects taxes from their owners. The tunnel network has increased imports from Egypt to Gaza from $30 million annually during the years 1994-2006 to more than $650 million annually. Given the abundance of supply, the price of diesel fuel and gasoline, delivered to Gaza through pipes from Egypt, is half that of the price in Israel.

· Farid Zakout, director of the Gaza Construction Association, told the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam that the price of a ton of cement now stands at NIS 800 as opposed to NIS 1,200 two months ago, and over NIS 3,000 more than a year ago. Cement prices fell after some 80 percent of tunnel owners began to import cement. The renewed surge in construction activity has fostered a rise of 25 percent in the number of those employed in the industry.

Since 2007, Israel has maintained a legal maritime blockade around Gaza whose purpose is to keep rockets and other weapons out of the hands of Hamas, while letting food and other humanitarian aid in. Yet there have been a wide variety of officials and commentators who insist that Gaza is starving, setting the stage for the repeated efforts of "humanitarian" ships to break the Gaza blockade.

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