Two Israeli missile class warships have sailed through the Suez Canal ten days after a submarine capable of launching a nuclear missile strike, in preparation for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The deployment into the Red Sea, confirmed by Israeli officials, was a clear signal that Israel was able to put its strike force within range of Iran at short notice. It came before long-range exercises by the Israeli air force in America later this month and the test of a missile defence shield at a US missile range in the Pacific Ocean.
Israel has strengthened ties with Arab nations who also fear a nuclear-armed Iran. In particular, relations with Egypt have grown increasingly strong this year over the “shared mutual distrust of Iran”, according to one Israeli diplomat. Israeli naval vessels would likely pass through the Suez Canal for an Iranian strike.
This would make Israel (after America), the second terrorist state in the world to ever use nuclear arms to exterminate people.
“This is preparation that should be taken seriously. Israel is investing time in preparing itself for the complexity of an attack on Iran. These manoeuvres are a message to Iran that Israel will follow up on its threats,” an Israeli defence official said.
It is believed that Israel’s missile-equipped submarines, and its fleet of advanced aircraft, could be used to strike at in excess of a dozen nuclear-related targets more than 800 miles from Israel.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, said that his Government explicitly allowed passage of Israeli vessels, and an Israeli admiral said that the drills were “run regularly with the full co-operation of the Egyptians.”
Two Israeli Saar class missile boats and a Dolphin class submarine have passed through Suez. Israel has six Dolphin-class submarines, three of which are widely believed to carry nuclear missiles.
Israel will also soon test an Arrow interceptor missile on a US missile range in the Pacific Ocean. The system is designed to defend Israel from ballistic missile attacks by Iran and Syria. Lieutenant-General Patrick O’Reilly, the director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defence Agency, said that Israel would test against a target with a range of more than 630 miles (1,000km) — too long for previous Arrow test sites in the eastern Mediterranean.
The Israeli air force, meanwhile, will send F16C fighter jets to participate in exercises at Nellis Air Force base in Nevada this month. Israeli C130 Hercules transport aircraft will also compete in the Rodeo 2009 competition at McChord Air Force base in Washington.
“It is not by chance that Israel is drilling long-range manoeuvres in a public way. This is not a secret operation. This is something that has been published and which will showcase Israel’s abilities,” said an Israeli defence official.
He added that in the past, Israel had run a number of covert long-range drills. A year ago, Israeli jets flew over Greece in one such drill, while in May, reports surfaced that Israeli air force aircraft were staging exercises over Gibraltar. An Israeli attack on a weapons convoy in Sudan bound for militants in the Gaza Strip earlier this year was also seen as a rehearsal for hitting moving convoys.
The exercises come at a time when Western diplomats are offering support for an Israeli strike on Iran in return for Israeli concessions on the formation of a Palestinian state.
If agreed it would make an Israeli strike on Iran realistic “within the year” said one British official.
Diplomats said that Israel had offered concessions on settlement policy, Palestinian land claims and issues with neighboring Arab states, to facilitate a possible strike on Iran.
“Israel has chosen to place the Iranian threat over its settlements,” said a senior European diplomat.
RELATED ARTICLES
- USA Under High Alert as Russia wants to Place Nuclear Weapons in Space
- Houthis Fire Missiles at Two Ships as Red Sea Crisis Rages on
- US War with Yemen Houthis Intensifies in the Red Sea
- UK Threatens War on Yemen's Houthis
- Israeli City Near Economic Collapse as Tourism Plummets to Zero
Loading ...
@madonna.
You are a fucking treachrous WHORE!
I hope you DIE!
I am shamed to be from the same country as you! Supporting the fucking JEWS!
Get the fuck out of my country you whore! And go die!
How much money has Israel ever given to America? If we withdrew our financial support, Israel would collapse in a year or two.
Israel won’t nuke Iran. Then Syria is in. Then the whole Middle East is destabilized and the American economy collapses, as America has cumulatively invested trillions of dollars in the Middle East since the first well was drilled in 1938. This well was offshore Saudi Arabia and was 4,727 feet deep. It was drilled by a partnership of Chevron (Standard Oil of California) and an Arabian company. This partnership later changed its name to ARAMCO and the rest is history.
How much oil has Israel given us? The Jewish financiers and bankers have America by the sack.
Sadly, I fear we have become their slaves.
America has a balance to play. We do big big business with Arabs. Both sides profit immensely. Like I said, what has Israel given us? Nothing but liability.
Withdraw American support, and the Arab world will converge on Israel and reduce it to carnage for wild dogs to feed on. Without American support, even Egypt will turn on Israel.
Tell you what. Wait til one year before my death, and let the festivities begin!
Let me pose a question: Do countries all collect nukes like people collect Automobiles, coins, and stamps? Or is there perhaps an agenda we don’t know about….for using these nukes in the future?
Hey Craig, you are Jewish, so we already know you are a racist. Also, you all are the global Empire, we the humans of this planet are in need of free ourselves from you are your buddie Lucifer.
Also, your hate is not wanted in our lands.
Europe will be able to defend itself once again once your bigot race is kick out of occuping us Japhethites.
Madona
“The real danger of humankind is actually Islam and Islamism” and especialy this Moron Ahmadinejad.”
The Insurgent is one of those Americans that never got 20 miles from his Village.
Europe is the Next target of This Moron, so Americans at list shut up.
Israel has full rights to defend itself from the terrorists organizations, from Iran who is lead by a Nazis leader as Ahmadinejad. The real danger of humankind is actually Islam and Islamism.
The United States is the #1 terrorist state on Earth. Israel is well behind it, but without the american taxpayers help, there would be no israel as we know it today.
We peace-loving people demand that the Jewnited Snakes of America stop all financial, military and economical support to israel and as of USA, they pull out from every country they occupy.
We respect the American people, but absolutely NO repsect or remorse for the US government. It has to be stopped, abolished and the surviving zionist/marxist politicians executed immediately!