Financial markets the world over are in turmoil and Brent North Sea Crude has reached a new short-term high today after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Iran of planning to send two warships through the Suez Canal later this evening and suggested this could provoke an Israeli attack on the nation.
The plans hadn’t been widely publicized until today, and Iran’s state media is so far mum on the allegation, but Lieberman insisted that two Iranian warships would pass through the canal later this evening on their way to Syria. The ships are reportedly planning to remain docked in Syria for one year.
Which is unusual, but not entirely shocking since Iran and Syria are allies. Lieberman, whose threats came in an email statement, insisted that the plan to send the ships proved that the Iranian government’s “insolence” is growing.
Though the threat appeared to be taken all too seriously in financial circles, it should be pointed out that Lieberman tends to make idle threats and his influence on Israeli foreign policy appears to be extremely minimal. Likewise, it doesn’t seem the two warships could even theoretically pose an offensive threat to Israel, though they might well be offered as defensive backup if, as is often threatened, Israel starts new wars in the region.
Are we to believe the same clowns who planted false information on Iraqi WMD's and murdered people on the high seas?
The Israelis have proved to be either cowards are very shrewd as to whom they attack. They prefer to drop armed Israeli thugs, I mean paratroopers, onto aid ships to murder innocent aid workers. Their preference is to drop phosperous bombs on unarmed Palestinians and straff Lebonese ambulances as they head to hospitals. Attacking an armed warship, that might fight back, is not their style.
Since when did Lieberman become a credible source of information?
With Mubabak gone, it jus ain't hiz canal anymoar…!!!!
Israel- Lieberman in particular- needs to grow and put its big girl panties on and quit whining. If they don't like Iranian ships moving around legally, let them start a war over it and see what happens.
Expecting Lieberman to "grow up" is like expecting a brownshirt to go into a hippie commune.
If Liebermans wants a war then please find him a rifle and some food. I will print a few maps so he can get to Iran and attack. Why do loud mouths like Lieberman push for wars when he is basically a man who never would put his rear end in harms way? I am shocked that he did not cry holocaust also.
Can ANYONE in our government get on the phone and shut up this jackass? We're going to be paying $10 a gallon because of a pumpkin-headed fool a world away. Here's the deal: He corks it or no more damn money. Turn off the spigot. We've had enough trouble from this crappy little country. Now THIS!
Its time the American Dog put a stop to the wagging of its Isreali Tail.
Since when has Isreal taken over the administration of the Suez Canal and have the right to decide who can use the International Waterway?
The VigMan thundereth- "War and by the gods, War it shall be!" Blah blah blah blah blah. Breaking news headlines February 17, 2011- Sen. Joe Lieberman (R-Israel) says, "we must defend Israel at any cost."
What insufferable unrelieved arrogance. The Israeli government has absolutely no right to prevent Iran's use of the Suez Canal. It is well past time that the U.S. shut off the spigot and let this smarmy little clot of socialist/Zionists fend for themselves.
Dobermans who bark seldom bite. Still someone should put a muzzle on him.
Horrible analogy, a real insult to a great breed and a quality dog. This character is a mutt of dubious parentage.
As an elderly lady (86) told me: But can the Americans afford to go to war with Iran ? Actually, on these same Antiwar pages a Professor of History from Chicago predicted it would be like going back to l932 more or less. But the Israeli FM doesn´t care. It´s not his business. He´s an insane religious war monger nut – just like Sarah Palin. God help us if she gets near to power. They´d love to blow it all up in their religious madness.
Israel knows well enough what the outcome will be,and would not dare all this clown has managed to do so far is to blow smoke up americas ass.
The CIA could shut him up with a 9mm but then what would we do for laughs without this moron sticking his foot in his mouth?
You're an "Advocate4Assassination" – not liberty. Surely?
Israel recently sent nuclear powered and armed sub's to the Persian Gulf, off the coast of IRAN.
They have some fucking nerve pointing their finger at IRAN, when what they did is 1000 X worse.
Tell me, how do you know where Israeli submarines are at any given moment?
Oh,and BTW – Israel doesn't have any nuclear-powered submarines.
oh_rubbish is right. While they may not have nuclear-POWERED subs, they most certainly have nuclear-ARMED subs.
Enjoy your position in the Israeli Ministry of Propaganda, but, unfortunately, no one here in the real world is buying the rubbish you're peddling.
An Iranian ship carrying arms to a rogue terrorist regime such as Hezboallah in Lebanon is a legitimate casus belli.
Agreed! Finally, someone on this website with SENSE.
If this site was TRULY antiwar, these howler monkeys would be screaming at IRAN for unnecessary provocation. It's IRAN which is the cause of any rise in oil prices, as well as the OPEC thieves. But the goose-stepping idiots who post here only blame the juden, especially the ones like Lieberman that dare open their mouths to tell it like it is.
Let's face it: When juden do ANYTHING to defend themselves, even to SPEAK in defense of themselves, they are promptly called all the malicious, venomous names one reads on this very page.
What satisfaction it brings to see one seething bigot after another spew so much bile. It's a sure sign of their much deserved unhappiness. And what hypocrites they are, too, spewing violent, warlike messages on an ANTIWAR site.
It's no coincidence why the most popular articles here always concern one single subject, one single country, one single group of people. This site's ugly reputation is RICHLY deserved, and all the vomitous animals reading this have themselves to thank.
Well said, Bodkin.
antiwar.com likes to take itself seriously – but look at the comments? It's like Prisonplanet or Stormfront.
Congrats, Antiwar.com, you completely undermine yourselves with such behaviour.
So, Bodkin, are you in the same office with oh_rubbish, or just another pseudonym for the same Israeli PR officer? "Juden"? Defend themselves?
Of course they need to defend themselves. When you squat in someone else's home, they're not likely to take kindly and may actually resort to force to regain their home.
Big surprise. Oops, my bad. More "bile" ROFLMAO
Last I checked Hezbollah won over 50% of the popular vote. There is nothing rogue about it.
Should send the USS LIBERTY through the canal, that will really make the zionists foam at the mouth.
Now so many Americans are in financial difficulty, it is high time our Government stops making every Israeli a lotto winner(about $500 each) every year.
Try $1,500 a year.
According to the Christian Science Monitor,the cost of Israel to the American TAXpayer has been over $1.6 TRILLION since 1973 .http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html
Ever get the feeling Avigdor is like that cousin who used to get upset and started yelling when you looked out the window on his side of the car?
In Lieberman case it would not be his car but the one he just robbed. The man would be holding a camera for a prom movie if he was not an official representative of the great state of Israel. The real question one has to ask is would a God, the Almighty, pick a clown like Lieberman as his chosen?
Iran's"insolence"? How about Israel's insolence!
Unnessesary power itself is a crime and Israelis have no match in this region but the history tells only weapons don,t speak see the war in Afghanistan or Irak how the americans were slaughtered and without the blessings of america Israel is zero as the Egyptian say if we urine is Cairo israel will be flooded. How many Israelis can kill if they dream of america war in middle east 1967 that was not a war but a cew against Nasser and their airforce was drunk.
There is no doubt Russian Jews will force middle east war which will be very bad even for Israel.
What insolence ? As Egypt, where the canal is located, pointed out, ships from any country not at war with EGYPT have right of passage through the canal.
Unless we’re talking about israeli insolence here….
Israel is like a spoiled bratty child, hidding behind a dolt of a big brother (USA) whining when it wants something. The spoiled child is over 60 yrs old!
Lieberman is the type that causes unrest, You want to stat a war go ahead and reap the aftermath! But pay for this war yourself and leave us & our soldiers out of it!
Have had enough of your krap
In light of the ethnic cleansing conducted by the "chosen" ones and supported by the Anglo Alliance of Terror ,Mr. Adolf begins to look like a Boy Scout.
"Israeli FM Threatens War With Iran Over Suez Warship Claim"
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What a disgraceful claim by antiwar.com
NOWHERE IN THE LINKS PROVIDED IS THERE ANY REASON TO CLAIM SUCH A THING AS ISRAEL THREATENS WAR.
Shameful.
"Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Iran of planning to send two warships through the Suez Canal later this evening and suggested this could provoke an Israeli attack on the nation."
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Please, back this up? Where – and how exactly – does Lieberman "suggest this could provoke an Israeli attack on Iran"?
If you can't justify such a claim, what was it ever doing there?
"Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Iran of planning to send two warships through the Suez Canal later this evening and suggested this could provoke an Israeli attack on the nation."
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This entirely unsubstantiated claim has led to comments being made here, such as:
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"the Israeli FM doesn´t care. It´s not his business. He´s an insane religious war monger nut"
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Oh well done, antiwar.com Really doing your bit for antiwar, right?
Avigdor nut should begin digging his own grave when he pushes the button for the 600 nuclear heads which Israel claim to have. Look at this nut-case's eyes. You can see the foolish satan in them. Even the King of Satans chose deformed satan to posses this idiot. If this Zionist idiot and his religious halfbred bastard start war with Iran then this will ignite WW3 then it will be the end of the Great Satanic Israel. WE should bring Senator Joe Doberman to Israel to be in the front lines.
Why won't you publish my questions asking you to substantiate your claims that Israel has threatened war?
You publish awful tripe as comment, but you won't publish a reasonable question asking you to backup your own claims.
So, you finally published my comments……
Thank you.
How about apologising for your inflammatory, dishonest headline?
ahh nice another aipac schill on antiwar.com spreading more disinfo. any one with a clue knows lieberman is a racist lunatic nut job. and seriously, what isn't an existential threat to israel?? the only state in the reigon with nukes and submarines to deliver them…and why is it that 2, TWO boats from iran on manuevers is an act of war. i guess having america having an entire carrier battle group cruising the straits of hormuz is a peaceful stance?? the hypocrisy is astounding.
what's rubbish is a bunch of pathetic zionists on this site trying to counter the facts that their nation state is an apartheid theocracy ruled by racist lunatics. islam is extreme and the land you stole belongs to you because god promised it?? it'd be funny if it wasn't such insane hypocrisy.
Let me get this straight……… ?
Any Jewish self-determination movement would be called Zionism, right? Your "anti-zionism" is a denial of Jewish self-determination.
To whom else would you deny the right of self-determination?
… "suggested this could provoke an Israeli attack on the nation."
So, when Liebeman says:
"Israel cannot ignore these provocations," and "… understand that Israel cannot ignore these provocations forever".
What does that suggest to you, Rubbish, knowing who Lieberman is and what he stands for? What did that suggest to financial markets as linked to in the article? Yeah. So, while I think the headline is needlessly flamboyant so is your outrage.
"the headline is needlessly flamboyant so is your outrage. "
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Hold on. Antiwar.com has a headline falsely claiming Israel threatened war. Israel did no such thing and NOWHERE amongst the articles given as support is any evidence provided to substantiate antiwar.com's inflammatory, provocative lies.
Stirring up false claims about Israel threatening war is NOT a position against WAR. It's provocation.
Look at the tone of the comments it has generated? Was Ditz unaware his provocative, untrue claims would generate such anti-semitism? Difficult to believe. Rather easier to believe the whole point in publishing such inflammatory distortions is to GENERATE such comments.
Despicable.
What an audience Mr Ditz. You're welcome to it.
Elsewhere Ditz writes that
—-"…..Western officials, and some writers at the Associated Press, however, see fit to look beyond the lack of concrete threats and instead rely on public fear of the unknown to make the case for escalating tensions beyond all reason, and bringing the West ever closer to a needless war with Iran."—–
Oh, but Mr Ditz and antiwar.com are so much better than that? Ditz wouldn't stoop to exploiting 'public fear' such as to 'escalate tensions', would he? Yes – the proof is on this page.