Posted on 12/01/2010 6:08:32 PM PST by HearMe
Cable sent in 2006 indicates that the Irish government has been making it increasingly difficult for American weapons shipments to Israel to pass through its airport.
The Irish government has acted to limit transfers of American weapons to Israel and Iraq through Shannon Airport in the wake of public outrage after the Second Lebanon War, an American diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks reveals.
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After the Second Lebanon War, the Israel Defense Forces needed to restore its depleted ammunition stocks, but the ambassador's cable indicates that the Irish government has been making it increasingly difficult for American weapons shipments to Israel to pass through its airport.
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Those that curse Israel...
This brings to mind that promise in Genesis that whoever blesses Abraham will be blessed and whoever curses him will be curse.
Well, well, well. Payback IS a bitch, eh?
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Let us do everything the bible says!
Not one dollar of my taxes to those Jew-hating swines. Let the Emerald Isle collapse under its own debt.
Amen
Cable sent in 2006 indicates that the Irish government has been making it increasingly difficult for American weapons shipments to Israel to pass through its airport.Thanks HearMe. No surprise there, the IRA has always been just another part of the worldwide terrorist network, seeking establishment of a single party state.
What, that’s the only airport they can use? Ever heard of loading them up on a ship and transporting them that way?
I was thinking more along the lines of Post #3.
What are you talking about?
Good point. That brings up a couple of even more interesting questions in my mind: Why was Shannon Airport used for these weapons shipments in the first place, and what was Ireland getting for their role in this?
There has got to be more to this story. There is no problem with flying straight from the USA to the UK.
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The *world* needs to nuke the filthy commies out of existence. Yesterday.
Odd. The usual way to handle these things is to publically agree with the whipped up outrage, obviously limit the arms exports through the airport, and arrange for them to be secrectly shipped “under the radar” from somewhere else...
Its not your grandfathers Ireland either, or your great-grandfathers, or your great-great-grandfathers, or indeed any Ireland you can ever think of.
There is more to this story. Britain is an ally and Ireland isn’t. Simple as that.
This is the truth. I couldn't believe the hatred and seemingly automatic anti-US vitriol I heard just in casual conversation in Ireland when I made a trip there a few years ago (post 9/11).
Of course, in all fairness, I will say I've heard it from Germans, French, Brits, Italians and Spaniards, too. Europeans simply hate us and side with anyone who is an enemy of the US. (That's why they like Obama, who is an enemy of the US!)
How they inflicted the Kennedys on us should be considered an act of war.
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