“When we hear of the interception by our navy of a weapons-ferrying vessel on the high seas, we get only a minimal glimpse of the end-product of a super-intricate caper. We can only vaguely imagine the complexity of a worldwide endeavor involving most of Israel’s intelligence agencies and involving information sources and contacts in many disparate locations.

The upshot was that when the IDF naval commandos boarded the German-owned, French-operated, Romanian- captained and Liberian-chartered cargo ship Victoria Tuesday, they knew precisely where to find the Chinese-made rockets concealed behind sacks of cotton and lentils within the 39 Iranian containers loaded in Syria, before the ship deceptively sailed north to Turkey, only to later swing back southward to Egypt.

Sounds convoluted? It was.

Our appreciation for a job well done only increases when we begin to fathom what it was that the Iranians tried to deliver to their Gazan proxies. While much of world opinion laments a supposed humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, the Strip’s Hamas overlords never lose an opportunity to demonstrate where their concerns really lie. They are certainly not preoccupied with the welfare of their population.

The Victoria was expected to transport to them “tiebreaker” land-to-sea (also sea-to-sea) rocketry that would have prevented the Israel Navy from monitoring the maritime traffic around Gaza. That would in turn have facilitated unrestricted imports into Hamastan of all manner of game-changing weaponry and turned Gaza into an even more potent Iranian outpost, situated, in military terms, only a hop, skip and a jump from Tel Aviv.”Read more…