1915 GMT: Quiet Engagement. News is just emerging of five British nationals who have been held by Iran since their yacht Sail Bahrain strayed into Iranian waters on Wednesday.
The significance behind the headline is that the story was kept quiet for five days. That indicates that Britain does not want the matter to escalate into confrontation and that Iran, for now, does not want to use the detention for political advantage.
We could not find any logical reason for the Board of Governors’ decision. We cannot accept discrimination in international relations. Either there are rights or such rights do not exist. The age of discriminatory policies is over. This is the law of the jungle.
The Israeli Consulate in New York, feeling a bit of pressure over the claim that it was Israel that broke the cease-fire in November, has put out charts to prove Hamas’ responsibility. Unfortunately, the charts they’ve provided are more helpful for the supposed bad guys than they are for Tel Aviv:
In an illuminating interview with the Israeli Ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, the presenter of the Today programme put the following to him: there were 362 rocket attacks into southern Israel during the cease-fire of June-December 2008, but only 42 were launched between June and 4 November. On that day, Israeli forces entered Gaza and killed six Hamas activists.
1915 GMT: Quiet Engagement. News is just emerging of five British nationals who have been held by Iran since their yacht Sail Bahrain strayed into Iranian waters on Wednesday.
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