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Israeli Warships Make Rare Suez Canal Crossing
AFP ^ | July 14, 2009

Posted on 07/14/2009 8:17:33 AM PDT by Fennie

Two Israeli navy ships made a rare crossing of Egypt's Suez Canal Tuesday, headed from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea in the latest of "unusual" navy drills spotted in Suez over the past month, a port source told AFP.

One of the ships, the Hanit, already crossed the canal both ways in June, in what the source said was the first case of a large Israeli warship using the strategic waterway, although this was not possible to confirm officially.

(Excerpt) Read more at alarabiya.net ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: bho44; egypt; iran; iraq; islam; israel; israelinavy; jihad; middleeast; obama; shipmovement; suezcanal; wot
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1 posted on 07/14/2009 8:17:33 AM PDT by Fennie
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To: Fennie

It’s awfully nice of France to pass this info along to their buddies...


2 posted on 07/14/2009 8:19:46 AM PDT by jpl (Help us Obambi Wan Kenobi, you're our only dope.)
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To: jpl

Uh...what does France have to do with this, exactly? I must be missing something in the article.


3 posted on 07/14/2009 8:23:37 AM PDT by Dan Middleton (Reject political personality cults, on the left or the right.)
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To: Fennie
Might be positioning ships in the Persian Gulf in case any returning aircraft from a strike need to ditch. That's a long way for their ships to go, wonder what the cruising endurance is?
4 posted on 07/14/2009 8:26:26 AM PDT by aegiscg47
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To: Dan Middleton

AFP = Agence France Press.


5 posted on 07/14/2009 8:29:43 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

I see. I hardly think this was top secret information that could have been reasonably expected not to get out, though.


6 posted on 07/14/2009 8:33:38 AM PDT by Dan Middleton (Reject political personality cults, on the left or the right.)
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To: Dan Middleton
I hardly think this was top secret information that could have been reasonably expected not to get out, though.

I've been reading the same story for over a week. You're right. Anyone can watch a ship transit the Suez. No need for satellite surveillance.

7 posted on 07/14/2009 8:35:48 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Fennie

It’s funny how a (long forgotten) memory is triggered. When I read the headline I was immediately reminded of a joke I heard my family tell each other in the very early 1950’s, when I was just about 9 years old. At the time I had no clue what they were talking about.

It went like this:

QUESTION-What’s the fastest thing in the world?

ANSWER-Two Jews paddling up the Suez Canal in a canoe


8 posted on 07/14/2009 8:37:34 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: Fennie
France is always on guard for anyone they can surrender to..
France is sensitive to all troop movements..
9 posted on 07/14/2009 8:40:39 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: buccaneer81

"When the Nazis threw the children into the trucks, where were the French police?"

10 posted on 07/14/2009 8:51:01 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: Fennie

Does Isreal have a Navy Base in Eliat, or is it to exposed?


11 posted on 07/14/2009 9:00:14 AM PDT by AU72
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
One of the ships, the Hanit, already crossed the canal both ways in June, in what the source said was the first case of a large Israeli warship using the strategic waterway, although this was not possible to confirm officially.
This (and last week's submarine transits) constitutes a warning to the various Islamofascist despots (the Saudis, the Syrians, the Iranians, various Shi'ite faces) that Egypt won't reprise the Nasserite attacks on Israeli ships which triggered three wars in less than twenty years.
12 posted on 07/14/2009 9:10:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

I think the Sunni Arabs are giving tacit support to Israel against the Shi’ite Persians because of Arab fears of Persian hegemony.

When Israel takes out the Iranian nukes, they will be roundly condemned by Sunni Arabs (and the rest of the world). However, the Sunnis will also be smiling in relief.


13 posted on 07/14/2009 9:33:46 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: neocon1984

Definitely. Shia in the Kingdom have declared independence. No shooting yet, but that’s because the Shia tend to be the armed forces in the country. By the end of the 1980s/early 1990s, Saudi Arabia had accumulated more weapons than there was reasonable expectation they could ever scrape up enough soldiers to even use. The country is such a bunch of bone-idle bums (P.J. O’Rourke’s phrase) that nearly a fifth of the population of the Kingdom is guest workers, who do the actual work of the society while all the bills get paid for the citizens by people in the United States and other countries which import petroleum.


14 posted on 07/14/2009 10:17:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: jpl
All you need is an apartment that overlooks the canal, a camera, and a copy of Jane's Fighting Ships.

Another way to find out is to have someone on the payroll at the Suez Canal Authority.

In short, this is hardly something that is a secret.

15 posted on 07/14/2009 10:54:38 AM PDT by Cheburashka (It's a _happy_ Russian novel. Everybody still dies, but everybody dies happy.)
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To: Diogenesis

Helping, of course.

What is that photo from?


16 posted on 07/14/2009 11:22:34 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Cheburashka

“All you need is an apartment that overlooks the canal, a camera, and a copy of Jane’s Fighting Ships.”

Don’t even need that. There is a website that logs the who, what, when, and where of Suez crossings in real time:

http://www.lethsuez.com/


17 posted on 07/14/2009 11:25:08 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca
Don’t even need that. There is a website that logs the who, what, when, and where of Suez crossings in real time:

Point taken, but you might want to rely on your own personnel just to be sure.
18 posted on 07/14/2009 11:29:40 AM PDT by Cheburashka (It's a _happy_ Russian novel. Everybody still dies, but everybody dies happy.)
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Second time in as many weeks. The message being sent is that Egypt, like Saudi Arabia is on board. The US, no, we'll be talking to the mullahs.

19 posted on 07/14/2009 5:15:52 PM PDT by SJackson (the number-one job facing the middle class...a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S. Jobs)
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To: Jewbacca
That's the young Hannibal Lechter from Hannibal Rising.
20 posted on 07/14/2009 8:57:53 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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