Iran May Join "Freedom Convoys"

By Mr. Curmudgeon

The Obama administration’s vigorous support for a U.N. resolution condemning Israel’s actions to enforce a naval blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has had its effect. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced they are ready to escort ships attempting to break the blockade. “Iran’s Revolutionary Guards naval forces are fully prepared to escort the peace and freedom convoys to Gaza with all their powers and capabilities,” said Ali Shirazi, Ayatollah Khamenei’s Revolutionary Guards representative, told Iran’s Mehr news agency.

And why not, the Israeli blockade is interfering with Iranian shipments of Katusha (12-mile range) and Qassam (6-mile range) rockets to the genocidal killers of Hamas in Gaza and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Last November, the Antiguan-flagged container ship Francop was stopped by the Israeli Navy near Cyprus. An Israeli military spokesman said the Francop was transporting “dozens of shipping containers, carrying numerous weapons, disguised as civilian cargo among hundreds of other containers on board.”

Obama’s internationalist anti-Israeli views have crept into his war strategy. According to the New York Times, “During a press conference in April, Mr. Obama declared that conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up ‘costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure’; he drew an explicit tie between the Israeli-Palestinian strife and the safety of American soldiers as they battle Islamic extremism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.”

Obama and members of his administration refuse to make a connection between Islamic extremism and terrorism, but have no problem drawing a convoluted connection between Israel’s fight for survival and the death of America’s fighting men.

The key to ending Islamic strife, in Obama’s view, is for Israel to sign on to a “two-state solution.” As Iran’s offer to provide naval fire power to support ships running Israel’s naval blockade shows, that two-state solution advances Iran and Hama’s plan for a final solution for Israel.