In case it has escaped your attention, it is November. Thanksgiving will be upon us soon, a wonderful American holiday with a delightful culinary component, unless you are a vegetarian, a turkey, or a Native American. However, in this column, I do not write about vegetables. After all, I am the Eurasian Affairs Examiner. So, in commemoration of Thanksgiving, the rest of my articles for the remainder of this month will have some connection to Eurasian Affairs because they will somehow have something to do with Turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy your Turkey.
My first Turkey story is a Turkey story because the story appears in the Turkish media and apparently nowhere else. But, this story is not about Turkey. Instead, it is about Iran’s lovely neighbor, Iran, Iran’s good friend, Hezbollah, and Iran’s wily foe, Israel.
Israel has the geographic misfortune of existing next door to the psychotic and way over armed Hezbollahstan of southern Lebanon. These fellahs live in rich productive land but are mostly unemployed. They spend their day conjuring up opportunities to shoot missiles for no reason at Israeli civilians. Then, they get dishdasha in a bunch when Israelis express dissatisfaction with their dissolute and malignant lifestyle.
Hezbollah’s arms supplier is that great friend of all humanity, the Iranian Mullahs. When they are not shooting young girls who are peacefully protesting against rigged elections, or building nuclear bombs, the Mullah led government is often be found shipping missiles, guns, ammo, and stuff to make IUDs with shaped explosives to Hezbollah and the guys who kill American soldiers in Iraq.
The Turkish press reports that last week, Iran’s fundamentalist yet corrupt Mullah dictators loaded up a big boat with arms and sent it out on the high seas, sailing toward Hezbollah-land. The boat never made it to its terrorist destination. Yet again, Israel’s Mossad, the wet blanket of arms smuggling, nabbed the Mullah’s love boat and put the kibosh on all that fun and killing. Intercepted off the coast of Lebanon, Israel towed the board to Cyprus, which according to my Thomas guide is next to Long Beach, California.
Israel is offering to return the missiles it captured and will launch them as soon as Iran gives them the proper coordinates.
In a related story, philosophers from the Israeli Army are asking the Iranian Mullah government this interesting philosophical question: If Israel does not exist, why are all those crazy cats in your government spending so much money to build the Bomb to destroy it?