Posted on 06/04/2010 4:33:12 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
The Irish aid ship, MV Rachel Corrie, is expected to arrive in Gazan territorial waters at about 0900 local time (0600 BST) on Saturday.
Israel's foreign minister has said it will not be allowed to dock there and so far the crew have had no communication with the Israeli navy.
...Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire is on board the Rachel Corrie.
On Friday night the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin said he had reached agreement with the Israeli government to allow the vessel dock in the Israeli port of Ashdod, but it is believed that the activists declined the offer.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
"The situation in Gaza was raised in the assembly chamber on Tuesday and there is absolutely no need for another separate debate to be called on a day when the assembly is not even sitting," he said.
"At a time when we are facing massive cuts in public spending there are a huge range of more important issues which should be concerning public representatives in Northern Ireland."
Just the name justifies its sinking.
This should be an interesting confrontation.
The SS Pancake.
I have ALWAYS said that the Irish should work out the Middle East problem and the Arabs and Jews should work out the Protestant and Catholic problem in Ireland!!
It would be appropriate to ram this ship with a destroyer.
The Irish aid ship, MV Rachel Corrie
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The Irish are bulldozing their way into Gaza ???
Does anyone know if bulldozers are used in the ship breaking industry?
... this vessel needs to get torpedoed!
You made me laugh! I feel so evil...
Israel, fire up the griddle.
There are those times where I am embarrassed that my ancestors came from Ireland. This is one of them.
A rocket-propelled barge carrying maple syrup should be launched on a suicide ramming mission against this ship.
If she’s the one that was on the news tonight, she looked like a younger cousin of Helen Thomas.
Ironically the Israeli ship “Bulldozer” is set to intercept...
If I were the Israelis, I would sink it with a North Korean torpedo!
European guilt-ridden liberal human shields. They think their presence will do something. I was hoping Bono would hop his ass onto one of these and they’d take him down.
That would be a ‘beautiful day’.
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