UPDATE: Isreal has told both Turkey and Iran that if warships accompany the next flotilla it will be considered an act of war.
In a desperate attempt to defuse the ongoing crisis, cooler heads have prevailed and some headway has been made into the ongoing Turkey, Israel, Iran feud. Screwing the Iranian's plan to time their flotilla with the UN vote, it was moved up today and passed. The bad news is that like every other UN resolution ever passed, it has pretty much no effect on anybody or anything save a few Iranian banks and businessmen. Still the big MEH to Iran is kind of funny at least. All these sanctions will due is piss off Iran though.
The Brits have negotiated a deal with Israel that will allow more goods being allowed into the Gaza strip to alleviate the general suffering of the general populace. Specific items will be banned rather than general items such as paper. Really? What were they going to do? Wad it up and throw it at you. Oh I got a paper cut! WHAAAAAAA! Israel will also open up more land crossings and allow cement in under a third party scenario to fix buildings destroyed by Israel during the many raids they conduct to fight Qasam rocket attacks. The naval blockade however will continue. In return, a toothless UN investigation will examine the nine deaths killed during the recent Isreal raid of the Turkish flotilla. It will be limited to theoretical inquiries only and none of the soldiers will be interviewed. Israel has also as of today allowed more food and toiletry products to be taken off the banned list including such dangerous items as shaving cream and candy. I'm all for blockades but some of these banned items were kind of stupid. They will also conduct an internal investigation into the raid gone wrong.
How will the rest of world react? Probably not well. Israeli hard liners are PISSED over the concessions, feeling that opening the Gaza land crossings will allow greater smuggling. Tensions are still running high in Turkey and Iran and I don't believe that this will placate them at all. Recent evidence uncovered during the raid on the Turkish Flotilla provided hard evidence of the PM Erdogon involvement with terrorist group IHH. If he's hellbent on destruction, this peace plan will go nowhere fast.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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