It is public knowledge that despite the official line that $900 million is going from the United States to Gaza strictly for the purposes of rebuilding Gaza, a bulk of the money is actually going to end up with Hamas.
Does anyone really expect that massive construction work is going to take place in Gaza with Hamas doing nothing but sitting idly by? If in the United States which is a republic of laws, the mob collects protection money, what can we expect from the Gaza Strip which is under complete Hamas Control?
Hamas of course is dedicated to the destruction of Israel, and is ready to do whatever it takes, including the deployment of suicide bombers to achieve its objectives.
Thankfully, Israel is not sitting idly by while this happens and is actively fighting Hamas. Since January 20th, when Barack Obama was sworn in as President, Israel has conducted three airstrikes against arms shipments going to Hamas from Iran via Sudan, and sunk a weapons laden ship which was on the same mission.
Israel has conducted three military strikes against targets in Sudan since January in an effort to prevent what were believed to be Iranian weapons shipments from reaching Hamas in the Gaza Strip, ABC News has learned.
Arabic broadcaster Al-Jazeera also reported today a Sudanese official’s claim that Israel had sunk a ship carrying weapons.
It can be argued that there is virtually no correlation between this surge in weapons buying activity by Hamas and the influx of $900 million coming to its’ coffers directly from the United States, but I beg to differ.
Even if Hamas hasn’t received any of the $900 million yet, the fact that the perception that such a sum is coming its way, is one heck of collateral for whatever credit line Iran and other weapons suppliers might want to give it.
So in 2009, the United States is now the main financial backer of a terrorist organization dedicated to the elimination of our staunchest ally, an organization which spends our tax dollars on arms from Iran, a country which is itself pursuing the destruction of the United States . This whole thing is simply bizzare, and we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg.
Maybe our higly competent Secretaty of State ought to focus on why this is happening under her watch, rather than asking clueless questions in Mexico.
I wonder if the Obama school of diplomacy shall be taught at the Obama Academy…
More on the arms shipments from ABC
Earlier this week, CBSNews.com was the first to report that Israel had conducted an airstrike in January against a convoy carrying weapons north into Egypt to be smuggled into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
But actually, since January, Israel has conducted a total of three military strikes against smugglers transporting what were believed to be Iranian weapons shipments destined for Gaza, a U.S. official told ABC News.
The information matches recent reports from Sudanese officials of two airstrikes in the desert of eastern Sudan and the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea carrying weapons.
Jonathan Peled, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, would only say, “No comment,” when contacted by ABC News on the matter.
Sudanese officials initially said this week that 39 people riding in 17 trucks were killed in a mid-January airstrike conducted by an unidentified aircraft in a desert area north of the Red Sea port of Port Sudan.
Today, a Sudanese Foreign Ministry representative said there were two separate bombing raids against smugglers in January and February. The Sudanese minister for highways was more specific, saying the airstrikes took place Jan. 27 and Feb. 11.
Arabic broadcaster Al-Jazeera also reported today a Sudanese official’s claim that Israel had sunk a ship carrying weapons.
Israeli officials continue to refuse to confirm or deny the reports of airstrikes, but Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, “Israel hits every place it can in order to stop terror, near and far.”
In January, the United States signed an agreement with Israel to stop arms smuggling into Gaza. At the time, Israel was conducting a military operation in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas’ firing of rockets on Israeli towns.
Shortly after the agreement was signed, the U.S. Navy twice boarded a Cypriot ship in the Red Sea that was traveling from Iran to Syria and believed to be carrying Iranian weapons bound for Hamas.
After the boardings were inconclusive, the United States asked Egypt and Cyprus to search the vessel when it made ports of call. Cypriot authorities ultimately found material that could be used to manufacture munitions, which they described as a violation of the U.N. ban on Iranian arms exports.
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