Israeli lying machine on full gear to justify piracy

The Israelis claim they have caught a ship full of arms coming from Iran to Lebanon to arm Hezbollah and paraded what they called “its content” on TV. As usual they concealed their crimes by stating they are protecting themselves, always the victims. They hid that they pirated that ship which is illegal under international law. This is not the only crime they are trying to hide but they are trying to upstage the discussion of the Goldstone report.

The problem with Israeli lies is they are so over the limit (if there is a lying scale) what they spew is unbelievable and anyone with a brain that bothers to think about their lies would know they are the nonsense they are. If the ship came from Iran then it means it had to pass many places before it reaches the Mediterranean Sea so it must pass through the Suez canal where all ships are searched. The questions that come to mind: Why wasn’t the ship stopped by the Egyptian government an ally of the Israelis if there were such weapons on it (they don’t like Iran and Hezbollah)? If the Israelis were watching the ship as they claimed from the time it left Iran why was it only stopped when it reached the Mediterranean Sea? And why would Iran risk (if the ship really had weapons) all this to get weapons to Hezbollah through the sea when obviously there is a safer route? The Syrians said that it is theirs and it was going to Iran. So it didn’t come from Iran, nor was it watched from there, nor do the Syrians need to put weapons on a ship to get it to Lebanon.

Finally, if the Israelis can break international law to “protect” themselves and Ki Moon helps them out instead of doing his job why can’t we? If it is the law of the jungle so be it.

Hezbollah Denies Any Link to Arms Shipment Israel Claims Its Seizure

Al Manar

05/11/2009 Hezbollah on Thursday vehemently denied Israeli accusations that a huge shipment of arms seized by the Zionist entity was destined for the Islamic resistance group. “Hezbollah staunchly denies any link to the weapons that the Zionist enemy has seized from the Francop ship,” the group said in a brief statement.

“At the same time Hezbollah denounces Israel’s piracy in international waters,” it added.

The Israeli military claimed it had seized the 137-metre (450-foot) Antigua-flagged vessel Francop before dawn on Wednesday around 100 nautical miles from the Israeli coast.

Iran and Syria, staunch allies of Hezbollah, have both rejected Israel’s accusations about the ship’s destination and direction of passage.

In a joint press conference Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Mouallem, dismissed Israeli claims that a ship loaded with arms from Iran and headed for Syria had been intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea.

Walid al-Mouallem confirmed that the Israeli navy had seized a ship with Syrian cargo, but denied it was carrying arms; he also denied that the ship had been intercepted on its route from Iran to a Syrian port, saying the ship was headed in the opposite direction, on route to Iran to deliver Syrian-made goods for civilian consumption.

Israel, in fact, did not provide any proof of the alleged “hundreds of tons of arms bound for Hezbollah from Iran,” as Israel’s deputy naval commander, Rani Ben Yehuda, told the press.

At the joint press conference in Tehran, Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Mouallem commented the seizure of the ship by Israel stating that “unfortunately, some official pirates in the seas, sometimes in the name of the navy, sometimes in the name of inspection, obstruct trade movement between Syria and Iran”.

The ship itself, the “Francop”, was operated by the United Feeder Services, a Cyprus-based company that had taken the load in the Egyptian port of Damietta. An employee of the United Feeder Services said the ship had been bound from Damietta to Cyprus and from there to Lebanon and Turkey.

Hezbollah Slams Ban’s Report on Resolution 1701 as Unfair

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05/11/2009 Hezbollah slammed on Thursday the eleventh report of the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on UN resolution 1701 as unfair to Lebanon and its Resistance.

In a statement it released, Hezbollah emphasized that the report described in length limited incidents in the south without detailing Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty. “The report describes more than 10,000 air, land and sea violations against Lebanon since 14 August 2006 as breaching to UN resolution 1701; yet it continuously stresses on a few limited incidents which occurred in Lebanon,” the statement said.

“Which assault is more dangerous? The continuation of Israeli violations, espionage activities, spy cells, launching rockets on South Lebanon and statements which assure that Israel will continue to gather intelligence from Lebanon…. or a limited number of incidents which do not equate the constant Israeli violations?” the Resistance party wondered.

The party also wondered why the report described in “passing words” the Israeli attacks while it mentioned in length every incident on Lebanese territory.

“Is Israel’s decision not to leave the Ghajar area a usual and impulsive issue or it should be efficiently stirred and discussed at the Security Council , holding Israel responsible for an immediate withdraw or facing repercussions? Besides, is the occupation of the Sheba’a farms and Kafarshouba hills a normal and usual issue too, or should “Israel” withdraw without any conditions or void excuses?” Hezbollah also asked the UN chief in its statement.

The Resistance party concluded its statement by pointing that the report should have shed light on Israeli violations that cause worries and instability in the region instead of ignoring the Israeli violations and by that encouraging the Zionist entity to carry on its aggression against Lebanon and its people.