It looks like the Muslim world has decided that they are going to try and make this blockade of Gaza the Achilles heel of Israel. I tell you, if I were POTUS, I’d send the biggest baddest naval warships over to Gaza just to show solidarity, support, and strength with Israel. I’d never let this happen:
Iran’s Red Crescent Society will try to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza by sending food and medical supplies to the besieged Palestinian territory, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.
Red Crescent official Abdul Rauf Adibzadeh said one shipment of relief goods will arrive in Gaza via Egypt by the end of the week, Iranian media reported.
The aid group is also preparing to send two relief ships to the coast of Gaza, including a hospital ship with doctors, nurses and operating rooms and another vessel with more relief goods like food and medication, the IRNA and Mehr news agencies reported.
On Sunday, Iran offered to send a military escort for aid ships heading to Gaza:
Iran would be willing to send its Revolutionary Guard members to accompany further aid ships to Gaza, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday in an interview cited by Reuters.
“The naval wing of the Revolutionary Guard is ready to assist the peace flotilla to Gaza with all its effort and capabilities,” Khamenei’s Revolutionary Guard spokesman Ali Shirazi stated.
“If the Supreme Leader issues an order for this then the Revolutionary Guard naval forces will do their best to secure the ships,” Shirazi said. “It is Iran’s duty to defend the innocent people of Gaza.”
And in related news, Turkey also wants to try and break the blockade:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is considering a trip to Gaza in order to break the siege imposed on the Strip by Israel, Lebanese newspaper al-Mustaqbal reported Saturday, quoting “knowledgeable sources”. …
According to the report, Erdogan told the American administration he was planning to ask his navy to escort another aid flotilla, but that American officials asked him to delay the plan in order to look into the matter.
This is really becoming insanity here, that we don’t step in to support Israel during this time of crisis. They are being provoked right and left and we are playing into their hands. At this point I’m not sure how this is going to turn out in the very short term. I know how it will turn out long term – God will protect Israel. If you don’t believe me, just read up on the Gog/Magog war in Ezekiel. That is coming.