[jpl]

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

[aegiscg47]

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?

[101voodoo]

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

[hosepipe]

France is always on guard for anyone they can surrender to..
France is sensitive to all troop movements..

[AU72]

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

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[SJackson]

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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.