Comments on: Israeli Military Site Gets Bloggy

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By: Casual Observer

Casual Observer — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:50:14 +0000

Just to clarify some of the minor facts (per Wikipedia):
The “merchant ship” was registered in Cambodia, but sailing under an Egyptian Flag. The ship sank in minutes but the crew escaped in lifeboats. The cargo was several hundred tons of concrete so it was a very small cargo vessel. The crew was picked up by a passing ship.
>…if the ship was caught in cross-fire …
The Egyptian article states: “It (the ship) was hit and it was damaged,” Hadidi added, saying it appeared the vessel was caught in crossfire”. Since the purpose of the Israel ships is a naval blockade the likelyhood of two ships being in the 16 kilometer zone between Lebanon and the blockade , with one boat on its way to Syria, is at best “dubious”. The 60 km listed in the Israeli version is a safe distance beyond the blockade. The possibility that the Israeli ship was confused and fired out to sea is unlikely.
Further, The boat was sunk not “damaged” and there is no evidence (and little likehood) of crossfire.
On this basis I would view the Israeli version as more accurate and much more plausible.

By: Jaye

Jaye — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:08:12 +0000

Hi Tech, Low Tech, US and Israeli pilots are a bunch of Baby Killers! Who, when they are flying are tough guys but when they are shot down become Homos! Add to the list the Coward Hezbollah Missile and Rocket boys too.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:40:08 +0000

Thanks for the link. However, it directly contradicts large parts of the blog post that you excerpted. Firstly, MENA reports that it was Israeli fire that damaged the ship, which safely made it to port in Syria. Secondly, if the ship was caught in cross-fire then it must have been between the Israeli corvette and the Lebanese Coast and not some 40km further out to sea; this tends to put the blog post in the realms of making shit up.
Obviously as the ship managed to steam on to Syria without casualties, it would suggest that it was not hit by a missile.
So — no Egyptian ship sunk, but damaged in crossfire, with the source of the fire that damaged it in question, but more likely to be Israeli than Hizbullah. As I said in my earlier post — there’s a fair bit of disinformation flying around.

By: Defense Update editor

Defense Update editor — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:06:15 +0000

You asked for confirmation — here is the Reuter’s story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060715/wl_nm/mideast_egypt_ship_dc

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:29:25 +0000

FYI:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071500593.html

By: dan

dan — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:07:03 +0000

I’m a little curious about the whole Egyptian ship being hit or sunk business. An unnamed IDF source is quoted by Reuters Jerusalem office as asserting that Hizbullah hit an Egyptian ship and this has been passed around the blogosphere.
However, there has not been one single story that I can find in the non-Israeli ME or Egyptian press regarding this presumed incident, nor any reaction from an Egyptian official, nor any Western press reportage that would back this up in any concrete way. The story was released the day that the Israeli Corvette was hit — and was quite possibly standard MI disinformation.
I’d certainly be interested if you could shed some more light on this.