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Originally posted by Vitchilo
Sweet.... Turkey finally manning up to the bullies.
Report: Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza
Turkish officials tell Hurriyet Daily News that Turkish navy will strengthen presence in eastern Mediterranean Sea to stop Israeli 'bullying'.
"The eastern Mediterranean will no longer be a place where Israeli naval forces can freely exercise their bullying practices against civilian vessels," a Turkish official was quoted as saying.
As part of the plan, the Turkish navy will increase its patrols in the eastern Mediterranean and pursue "a more aggressive strategy".
According to the report, Turkish naval vessels will accompany civilian ships carrying aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Additionally, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan instructed his foreign ministry to organize a trip for him to the Gaza Strip in the near future.
Hell yeah Erdogan! Israel's government bullying needs to stop. Turkey's navy will make sure of that.
And if Israel wants to go at it with Turkey, they better ready their nukes because that's the only way they gonna win.
Israel needs to man up, SUPPORT a palestinian state, make economic deals with them... make peace with everyone and stop acting like they are above everyone else. Going to war isn't what a real leader does. Going to war is ``easy``... what is hard is NOT going to war and DEAL with the actual problems.edit on 3-9-2011 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by intrepid
The argument naturally steers there...
Turkey - an all-of-a-sudden champion of human rights for palestinians, is doing precisely that which they are castigating Israel for, against the Kurds of Turkey and northern Iraq, despite kemals attempts of "the kurds are our friends" argument.
Its just very ironic, and very hard not to point out.edit on 3-9-2011 by dontreally because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Blaine91555
That's the whole idea here. That is what these fake relief efforts have been all about. If these were genuine relief efforts, they would simply let Israel inspect the cargo an deliver the goods without incident.
Originally posted by John0Doe
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Sweet.... Turkey finally manning up to the bullies.
Report: Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza
Turkish officials tell Hurriyet Daily News that Turkish navy will strengthen presence in eastern Mediterranean Sea to stop Israeli 'bullying'.
"The eastern Mediterranean will no longer be a place where Israeli naval forces can freely exercise their bullying practices against civilian vessels," a Turkish official was quoted as saying.
As part of the plan, the Turkish navy will increase its patrols in the eastern Mediterranean and pursue "a more aggressive strategy".
According to the report, Turkish naval vessels will accompany civilian ships carrying aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Additionally, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan instructed his foreign ministry to organize a trip for him to the Gaza Strip in the near future.
Hell yeah Erdogan! Israel's government bullying needs to stop. Turkey's navy will make sure of that.
And if Israel wants to go at it with Turkey, they better ready their nukes because that's the only way they gonna win.
Israel needs to man up, SUPPORT a palestinian state, make economic deals with them... make peace with everyone and stop acting like they are above everyone else. Going to war isn't what a real leader does. Going to war is ``easy``... what is hard is NOT going to war and DEAL with the actual problems.edit on 3-9-2011 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
Izraelis dont need to act like they are abouve everyone else....they are
As for Turkey,if they do that it means they are ready to dissapear from the earth,because Izrael will use nukes that is guaranteed...
But as all know Erdogan is a freemason,so his talking about that is just "bringing the thursty man over the river"-thing
Originally posted by intrepid
And where does most of Israel's arms come from? THEIR nukes? You're right. Moot point, on both sides.
The Israel Defense Forces relies heavily on local military technology and high-tech weapons systems designed and manufactured in Israel. Israeli-developed military equipment includes small arms, anti-tank rockets and missiles, boats and submarines, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, unmanned surface vehicles, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), air-defense systems, weapon stations and radar.
An impetus for the development of the industry was the embargo on arms sales to Israel during the Six-Day War which prompted Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), founded as a maintenance facility in 1953, to begin developing and assembling its own aircraft, including the Kfir, the Arava and the Nesher.[58]
Israel is believed to manufacture its nuclear weapons at the Negev Nuclear Research Center, a highly secretive nuclear installation located near Dimona.
Originally posted by nusnus
Did you by any chance think they import their nuclear weapons from the US?
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by illuminatislave
That's the whole idea here. That is what these fake relief efforts have been all about. If these were genuine relief efforts, they would simply let Israel inspect the cargo an deliver the goods without incident.
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by nusnus
Did you by any chance think they import their nuclear weapons from the US?
Yes. May I ask when any Israeli nuclear testing has been observed? If I'm wrong, fine, I'll admit it. I have never heard of it and if they were I'm sure there would have been news about this.
The Israeli nuclear program was first revealed publicly on 13 December 1960 in a small Time article,[60] which said that a non-Communist non-NATO country had made an "atomic development." On December 16, the Daily Express revealed this country to be Israel, and on December 18, US Atomic Energy Commission chairman John McCone appeared on Meet the Press to officially confirm the Israeli construction of a nuclear reactor and announce his resignation.[61] The following day The New York Times, with the help of McCone, revealed that France was assisting Israel.[62]
This flurry of media reporting led Ben-Gurion to make the only statement ever by an Israeli Prime Minister about Dimona. On December 21 he announced to the Knesset that the government was building a 24 megawatt reactor "which will serve the needs of industry, agriculture, health, and science," and that it "is designed exclusively for peaceful purposes."[63] However, Ernst David Bergmann, chairman of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission from 1954 to 1966, said that "There is no distinction between nuclear energy for peaceful purposes or warlike ones" [64] and that "We shall never again be led as lambs to the slaughter".[65]
srael may have conducted an underground test in the Negev in 1963.[39] On 2 November 1966, the country may have carried out a non-nuclear test, speculated to be zero yield or implosion in nature.[2][54]
The main suspected nuclear test conducted by Israel has become known as the Vela Incident. On 22 September 1979, a US Vela satellite, built in the 1960s to detect nuclear tests, reported a flash resembling a nuclear detonation in the southern Indian Ocean. The United States, under the Carter administration, initiated an investigation, and the United States' intelligence agencies concluded that the explosion was nuclear, and was a test conducted on an island controlled by South Africa.[55] The intelligence community's estimate was that it was 90% likely to be a nuclear test and a secret study by the Nuclear Intelligence Panel agreed with that initial finding.[56] Author Richard Rhodes asserts that the Carter administration was concerned about disrupting relations with South Africa, so the administration deliberately obscured their conclusions by putting forward a cover story that the flash was a result of natural causes.[55] The Carter administration created a scientific panel led by MIT professor Jack Ruina, to analyze the reliability of the Vela detection; they concluded in July 1980 that the flash "was probably not from a nuclear explosion,"[57][58] According to authors Richard Rhodes[55] and Seymour Hersh, the explosion was a nuclear test conducted by Israel with the cooperation of South Africa. Hersch writes that the explosion was actually the third joint Israeli-South African nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, and the Israelis had sent two IDF ships and "a contingent of Israeli military men and nuclear experts" for the test.[59]
Originally posted by nusnus
Originally posted by intrepid
And where does most of Israel's arms come from? THEIR nukes? You're right. Moot point, on both sides.
They develop their own weaponry. Israel has one of the highest rates of scientific research articles published per person in the world.
As mentioned in the article in Wikipedia:
The Israel Defense Forces relies heavily on local military technology and high-tech weapons systems designed and manufactured in Israel. Israeli-developed military equipment includes small arms, anti-tank rockets and missiles, boats and submarines, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, unmanned surface vehicles, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), air-defense systems, weapon stations and radar.
An impetus for the development of the industry was the embargo on arms sales to Israel during the Six-Day War which prompted Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), founded as a maintenance facility in 1953, to begin developing and assembling its own aircraft, including the Kfir, the Arava and the Nesher.[58]
Also:
Israel is believed to manufacture its nuclear weapons at the Negev Nuclear Research Center, a highly secretive nuclear installation located near Dimona.
Did you by any chance think they import their nuclear weapons from the US?
Lets for a minute think that they wanted to use these weapons, do you think they are bound by any international treaties like Turkey is? They're not.
Since they're not even holding these weapons for anyone, they have the best possibility in utilizing them before the Turks even had a time to retaliate.
But another interesting point I'd like to make is Israelis are extremely smart people. Much much smarter than the average Turk. If the Turks had any nukes in their hands, they would have used them already. If the Arabs had any nukes in their hand, they would have used them already.edit on 3-9-2011 by nusnus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by intrepid
reply to post by nusnus
BUT no testing of nuclear bombs. They are pretty hard to conceal. So they have nukes. Where did they come from? Jeez, we're getting off topic again.
The main suspected nuclear test conducted by Israel has become known as the Vela Incident. On 22 September 1979, a US Vela satellite, built in the 1960s to detect nuclear tests, reported a flash resembling a nuclear detonation in the southern Indian Ocean. The United States, under the Carter administration, initiated an investigation, and the United States' intelligence agencies concluded that the explosion was nuclear, and was a test conducted on an island controlled by South Africa.[55]
The intelligence community's estimate was that it was 90% likely to be a nuclear test and a secret study by the Nuclear Intelligence Panel agreed with that initial finding.[56] Author Richard Rhodes asserts that the Carter administration was concerned about disrupting relations with South Africa, so the administration deliberately obscured their conclusions by putting forward a cover story that the flash was a result of natural causes.[55] The Carter administration created a scientific panel led by MIT professor Jack Ruina, to analyze the reliability of the Vela detection; they concluded in July 1980 that the flash "was probably not from a nuclear explosion,"[57][58] According to authors Richard Rhodes[55] and Seymour Hersh, the explosion was a nuclear test conducted by Israel with the cooperation of South Africa. Hersch writes that the explosion was actually the third joint Israeli-South African nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, and the Israelis had sent two IDF ships and "a contingent of Israeli military men and nuclear experts" for the test.[59]
Originally posted by nusnus
Read my second quote...or better yet let me post it again:
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by nusnus
Read my second quote...or better yet let me post it again:
I read your edit. It was ambiguous at the least. Some say this, others say that. The use of the word "may" doesn't inspire me. Tomorrow I "may" have an Egg McMuffin with a freshly cracked egg. Does that mean my egg is fresh, or was it just an egg that was cracked at the time? One has to look at the wording. "Is/are" do more for a stance.
Originally posted by nusnus
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by nusnus
Read my second quote...or better yet let me post it again:
I read your edit. It was ambiguous at the least. Some say this, others say that. The use of the word "may" doesn't inspire me. Tomorrow I "may" have an Egg McMuffin with a freshly cracked egg. Does that mean my egg is fresh, or was it just an egg that was cracked at the time? One has to look at the wording. "Is/are" do more for a stance.
Eh, well its your decision to take any of it seriously. I don't know why I bother.
But Im going to post this as the last post.
Who invented the atomic bomb?
It was a Jew by the name of:Leo Szilard
Although he tried to convince the Americans not to use it against people, he was hoping the very presence of it would deter people. I rest my case.
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by Blaine91555
That's the whole idea here. That is what these fake relief efforts have been all about. If these were genuine relief efforts, they would simply let Israel inspect the cargo an deliver the goods without incident.
I'm not disagreeing with you but the question is..... why? I had a boss about 10 years ago that said, "If you have a problem and you can't figure it out, factor in the equation of "control". That's what this is about, control. Why should Israel have it?
Originally posted by Dr Expired
reply to post by NewsWorthy
Its strange how everyone is obsessed with Nuclear weapons but never mention Neutron Bombs.
Giant microwave envelopes .
No fallout?
Fried bodies, but no building damage, this will be the horror of ww3?
Israel may have a few of these also.