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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIran's fingerprints on Hamas weaponry, but its larger role in Israel-Gaza crisis remains murky
3 hours ago
By Alastair Jamieson, NBC News
It was an unguarded comment that may have strayed close to the truth: Britains Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said he believes tensions over Iran were behind the Israel-Gaza violence.
That remark made in a radio studio when he thought he was off the air echoes a theory that Tehrans fingerprints are all over the current escalation of violence.
Realizing that he was actually live on air, Sacks did not elaborate on his theory but Western intelligence agencies and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) do agree that longer-range rockets being fired toward Tel Aviv are Iranian-manufactured Fajr-5 missiles.
The Fajr-5s are assembled locally after being shipped from Iran via Egypts Sinai region from where they are smuggled into Gaza through tunnels, the IDF says on its own public information site.
More: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/19/15282386-irans-fingerprints-on-hamas-weaponry-but-its-larger-role-in-israel-gaza-crisis-remains-murky?lite
By Alastair Jamieson, NBC News
It was an unguarded comment that may have strayed close to the truth: Britains Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said he believes tensions over Iran were behind the Israel-Gaza violence.
That remark made in a radio studio when he thought he was off the air echoes a theory that Tehrans fingerprints are all over the current escalation of violence.
Realizing that he was actually live on air, Sacks did not elaborate on his theory but Western intelligence agencies and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) do agree that longer-range rockets being fired toward Tel Aviv are Iranian-manufactured Fajr-5 missiles.
The Fajr-5s are assembled locally after being shipped from Iran via Egypts Sinai region from where they are smuggled into Gaza through tunnels, the IDF says on its own public information site.
More: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/19/15282386-irans-fingerprints-on-hamas-weaponry-but-its-larger-role-in-israel-gaza-crisis-remains-murky?lite
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Iran's fingerprints on Hamas weaponry, but its larger role in Israel-Gaza crisis remains murky (Original Post)
ellisonz
Nov 2012
OP
Oh but it's ok if Israel uses armament gotten from the US to beat the shit out of Palestinians
teddy51
Nov 2012
#5
Iran and other muslim nations have been using the Palestinians as proxies for years
ProgressiveProfessor
Nov 2012
#7
msongs
(67,395 posts)1. so, whose finger prints on the Israelites' weaponry? nt
teddy51
(3,491 posts)2. You beat me to it!
teddy51
(3,491 posts)3. WTF gives Israel the right to say whether or not the Palestinians have
weapons or not.
I feel the same way about whether Iran can build a nuke or not. If Israel and the US have nukes, then damn it Iran should be able to build them.
When they launch them at Israel?
teddy51
(3,491 posts)5. Oh but it's ok if Israel uses armament gotten from the US to beat the shit out of Palestinians
though! That makes a lot of sense, NOT.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)6. How much should Israel take before firing back?
How many WIA/KIA should they accept? How much destruction? What should be threshold?
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)7. Iran and other muslim nations have been using the Palestinians as proxies for years
They give them weapons and rhetoric, since it is the Palestinians and not their children dying.