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  By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer Aron Heller, Associated Press Writer   – 1 hr 34 mins ago

JERUSALEM – Open crates from a cargo ship seized Wednesday by Israel revealed dark green missiles inside. Containers from the vessel bore writing in English that said "I.R. Iranian Shipping Lines Group."

Israel alleged that the shipment of hundreds of tons of rockets, missiles, mortars, grenades and anti-tank weapons — the largest it ever seized — was headed for Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

Israel stopped the ship, named the Francop, off the coast of Cyprus and towed it to the port of Ashdod. It carried orange, red, white and blue containers piled three deep on its deck.

Rows of crates from the vessel were displayed on the dock, and inside were rockets, hand grenades, mortars and ammunition. At least 3,000 missiles were on board, the Israeli military said.

The seizure spotlighted the dangerous tensions between Israel and Iran. Israel considers Iran a strategic threat because of its nuclear program and long-range missile development, dismissing Iranian denials that it is building nuclear weapons.

Among the weaponry displayed were Katyusha rockets. One of the long skinny missiles sat atop a pile of storage boxes the military had labeled in Hebrew "rocket 122 mm." The 122 mm Katyusha was the main weapon used against Israel by Hezbollah in a monthlong war in 2006. During that war, about 1,200 people were killed in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and about 160 people were killed in Israel.

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What the. . . ?

"Israel considers Iran a strategic threat because of its nuclear program and long-range missile development?"

Aaron!  Hello!

How about "Iran IS a strategic threat," and "because of its demonic vitriolic thirst for Jewish blood!"

The rogue government of Iran is a homicidally psychotic, self-declared enemy of Israel that denies the Holocaust and boasts it will rid the world of Zionism (meaning all Jews).

The U.N. has forbidden their governing body access to nuclear technology due to its expressed intention to finish what Hitler started!

Israel dismisses Iranian denials about nuclear weapons?  Remember the veiled female dancers who pranced about a stage in Tehran with glass vials of uranium celebrating Ahmadinejad's announcement that they just had split their first atom?

Will next year's missiles streaking towards Israeli neighborhoods or the mushroom clouds over Jerusalem be "considered by Israel to be possible signs of Iranian aggression?"

Were the thousands of Palestinian rockets fired into Israel in 2006 mere Israeli opinion?

Those 160 Israeli dead were comprised of innocent civilians living their lives!  (But of course no Khoffar is innocent, eh?)

The 1200 Palestinian dead were largely militants involved in tossing explosives into a neighboring country out of their Mosque-inspired Klan-like bigoted hatred of all things Jewish. 

Your word "civilian," in reference to the Palestinian deaths alone, is deeply offensive.  Palestine has no army.  Every last knife-brandishing, terrorist jihadi thug in that enclave of anti-Semitic malice is a "civilian."

But Jewish kindergartners blown to bits playing kickball at recess are. . . go ahead and say it. . . OK, I will: "dirty Kikes."

Orwell is speechless.