Posted on 12/30/2008 2:18:53 AM PST by atomic conspiracy
An Israel Navy ship clashed on Tuesday with a small boat carrying international activists with aid destined for Gaza, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said. There were no reported casualties from the incident involving the small cabin cruiser "Dignity" that sailed from Cyprus late on Monday. Israel has declared the coastal territory a closed military zone and said the Free Gaza Movement boat would not be permitted to dock. Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said the boat failed to respond to Israeli naval radio contact, and that an Israeli vessel "clashed with the ship." Free Gaza Movement told Reuters their boat, carrying 3.5 tons of medical aid with 16 people aboard, was rammed and shot at while in international waters about 70-80 miles off Gaza by Israeli naval vessel. Palmor denied there had been any shooting although the two ships made "physical contact." He said no one had been hurt and that the Israeli ship escorted the aid boat back to Cypriot territorial waters. Israel has declared areas around the Gaza Strip a "closed military zone" after it launched an aerial offensive in the coastal territory on Hamas targets on Saturday, in which 345 Palestinians have been killed. Free Gaza Movement said their boat was safe, but had sustained damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Yes! GPS is a wonderful thing!
Cynbat the Sailor and her fellow pirates sent fleeing with their tails between their legs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2155759/posts?page=51#51
QUOTE:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230456524869&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Dec 30, 2008 9:00
“Navy sends Gaza-bound activist ship back to Cyprus”
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the boat ignored an Israeli radio order to turn back early Tuesday. He said the boat tried to outmaneuver the navy ship and crashed into it, lightly damaging both vessels. The navy then escorted the boat to the territorial waters of Cyprus.”
51 posted on December 29, 2008 11:18:51 PM PST by Cindy
Cynthia McKinney learns real quick that she is a nobody on the World Scene.
Bad shootin. They missed.
The Israeli vessel backed off when Cindy brandished her cellphone.
“Bad shootin. They missed.”
Missed me by that much...
http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/get_smart_season_1.htm
Get Smart: Season 1
It'd be a hoot if the Israeli Navy sent them a bill for repairs.
They should have taken a page (the page?) from the French Naval Manual 13.69: Dealing with Protestors.
1. Blow them up.
Have a really difficult time putting “dignity” and “Cynthia McKinney” together in the same sentence. Talk about an oxymoron! Well, maybe just moron will do in this case.
When I think back to all the aid delivered by Cindy to the Israelis living under the Hamas bombardment.....
You made my day, thanks!
Yes but unfortunately they Israelis failed to sink the damn boat with all on board, dammit.
McKinney had better be wearing a life jacket.
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. ;-)
Sink it.
Try "misnomer".
We can add another name to the long list of sold-out terror tool “journalists,” NBC’s Tracie Potts.
During her report this morning, Potts characterized Cynbat the Sailor McKinney’s terror-tub as being “loaded with American relief workers and medical supplies,’ though the tools themselves claim that the 15 passengers represent 11 different countries.
Potts also presented a McKinney sound-bite declaring that “every piece of rubble in Gaza was put there by American weapons,” then of course failed to challenge this falsehood. Potts’s naturally placed great emphasis on civilian casualties and dead children- when the numbers didn’t suffice to raise ire, she let her tone of horror and amazement do the lying job for her: “374 people have been killed, AT LEAST 62 OF THEM CIVILIANS!” There was also a series of bites on Arab aid to Hamas, with Potts declaring breathlessly that “other Arab countries have come to Palestine’s defense.”
THE MEDIA ARE THE ENEMY
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