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January 22, 2006

Iran: $10 Million Donation To Islamic Jihad - Israel Hits Back

Today, Arutz Sheva reports on an announcement made last night by Israel's defense minister, Sha'ul Mofaz, in a speech delivered at the annual Herzliya Conference. He mentioned the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is currently touring Syria.

In Damascus on Friday, Ahmadinejad met with representatives of Hizbullah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in the presence of the Syrian Ba'athist dictator Bashar al-Assad.

We described some of the claims Ahmadinejad made at this meeting yesterday, where he spoke ominously of a "Final War" in the Middle East. Mofaz referred to this meeting as a "terror summit".

Mofaz (pictured, above) made the claim that Iran has bankrolled Hizbollah to the tune of $100 million per year. It was known that the Islamist regime supported and trained Hizbollah members, who are based in a disputed region of the Lebanon. But an additional claim was made by Sha'ul Mofaz - that $10 million went from Iran into the coffers of Islamic Jihad last year, a year in which the group (while on a supposed truce) killed six innocent Israeli citizens in a suicide blast at a market in Hadera, killed 5 more shoppers in Netanya, and have been implicated in other suicide attempts, such as the blast at Tel Aviv on Thursday, which injured 30 people.

The $10 million is twice as much as the amount given by Iran in 2004, Sha'ul Mofaz announced, adding "The regime of the president of Iran, Ahmadinejad, supports terrorism in the Middle East through the supply of rockets that threaten population centers in this country, sends money for terrorism, and supplies training and know-how to the Middle Eastern [terror] organizations."

Defence minister Mofaz hinted that it will not tolerate Iran's current resumption of its uranium enrichment program, saying Israel "must be prepared to defend itself, with all that that implies. An international effort must be promoted against Iran, which supports terrorism and denies the Holocaust."

Mofaz' speech was taken up by Al Jazeera, in a piece entitled: "Israel Hints At Attacking Iran". Google cites 250 other references to this speech.

"I believe everyone present here understand the extent to which the combination of an extremist regime with long-range ballistic capability, ongoing efforts to obtain nuclear weapons and support in terror constitutes a danger not only to Israel, but to the entire world. While Israel's strategic state is much better today in terms of our international standing and the relations with the United States, the country faces some imminent threats such as Iran's "nuclear armament" and the strengthening of terror. This is why 2006 will be a year of struggle, not a year of resolutions," Mofaz is quoted as saying.

Haaretz today reports Iran's response to Mofaz's speech. Hamid Reza Asefi, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, said Israel was only trying to increase Western pressure to make it dismantle its nuclear program. Any attempt by Israel to mount a military strike would be a "fatal mistake" and Mofaz' comments were derided as a "childish game."

Mofaz stated on Friday "You, who are leading your country in an ideology of hatred, terror and antisemitism. You had better take a glance at history and see what became of tyrants like you who tried to annihilate the Jewish people. They only brought destruction upon their own people."

Mofaz called Ahmadinejad an "oppressor", saying: "Ahmedinejad, his hallucinatory statements, his criminal actions and his extreme views will bring disaster upon you. Do what you understand needs to be done in order to prevent this." Mofaz referred to the presidents of Iran and Syria as "representatives of the past".

UPI via Monsters & Criticcs states that Mofaz concluded his speech with these words: "Syria is under international pressure, while we have peace agreements with Arab states and the reality does not allow for the formation of an Arab coalition against Israel. The strength of the peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt contributes to stability in the region, which is why they must continue to be nurtured."

Meanwhile, Focus-fen and Arutz Sheva report that in the village of Silat a-Harta, north of Jenin in the West Bank this morning, police and Shin Bet agents arrested a senior leader of Islamic Jihad, one Hassan Jardaat. Jardaat leads a terror cell in northern Samaria which has committed several fatal attacks which caused the deaths of dozens of Israelis and injured hundreds more.

And in separate news, just out, BBC World Service says that a Palestinian has been killed today in the Gaza strip. A militant group, the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed that a group of their number were preparing to launch rockets from Gaza into Israel, but themselves came under an Israeli air attack. The BBC states it is not known if the dead person was a militant or a bystander.

And it is alleged that Hillary Clinton has also been receiving funds from Iranian Americans close to the regime, who wish for the US trade embargo against Iran to be rescinded......

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 22, 2006 11:21 AM

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