Ship of Fools turned back [Jonn]

| December 30, 2008

While I was snoozing through a Code Pink protest yesterday, news broke from Little Green Footballs that Cynthia McKinney had boarded the SS Moonbat and headed for Gaza with supplies on a three hour tour, three hour tour.

[S]he’s getting on a boat in Cyprus with a bunch of international moonbat activists (aka Hamas supporters), planning to run Israel’s blockade on Gaza.

Michelle Malkin reported last night that the Israeli Navy had turned the yacht around (only McKinney would conduct an amphibious assault in a yacht);

Update 5:22am Eastern. Carl in Jerusalem reports that the S.S. Moonbat has been turned back by the Israeli Navy…

The yacht carrying former US Congresscritter and Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney tried to outmaneuver an Israeli navy gunboat off Gaza Tuesday morning. The yacht rammed into the Israeli gunboat, which then turned it around and sent it back to Cyprus.

Haaretz reports;

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.

From CNN:

In a radio message, the Israelis accused the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity, its captain said.

[…]

But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor called allegations that the vessel was rammed deliberately “absurd.” He said the volunteer boat was trying to outmaneuver the Israeli vessel when it was struck.

[…]

The Dignity was headed to Lebanon after the collision.

[…]

The boat was taking on a small amount of water after the collision, its captain said. Palmor said the vessel refused assistance after the incident.

For the pampered Left, every indignity they suffer is some sort of intentional conspiracy against them.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Liberals suck, Terror War

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yankeemom

The more these folks are thwarted, the more victimized and righteous they become. Oh, the evil in the world! Trouble is they have no clue who the real evil-doers are.
They’s just not wired right…

Raoul

That’s Digity as in Hot Digity Dog…

Torpedo los!

Raoul

Too bad they did let Jim Goodman drive, it would have gone up in smoke.

Fox News Zombie

Should the suffering people in Gaza be denied medical aid?

Jonn wrote: No, they shouldn’t. From Arutz Sheva;

Defense Ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror said “the time has come to put a stop to these anarchists” who he said are not bringing any significant amount of humanitarian supplies. He pointed out that Israel has opened Gaza crossings for hundreds of tons of aid despite the ongoing rocket and mortar attacks on Israel.

More than 120 trucks entered Gaza Sunday and Monday, and 100 more are expected to reach the area Tuesday.

Fox News Zombie

I guess I missed the point of the article then. So it wasn’t so much about them trying to bring aid but their overly dramatic story of being turned away?

Raoul

FNZ,

Next time you’re under attack, I’m chartering a boat to bring them goodies.

rochester_veteran

yankeemom Said:

…they have no clue who the real evil-doers are.

I’ll even take it a step further, yankeemom. I think that moonbats such as McKinney and the Code Pink hags knowingly choose to support the enemies of our country and our allies.

That’s called treason.

There, I said it! 👿

olga

Yankeemom and Rochester, in this situation they are neither. They are plain anti-semites who are simply expressing their belifs.

Mike43

Jonn what has happened to the layout on the site.It doesn’t fit side by side and is stretched down the entire page. Must be something to do with WordPress.Maybe it needs to be upgraded or else your server is messed up.

libocrat

If you can’t tell the McKinney is nuts, you are probably nuts yourself.

All-American

If these person so despise America and hate Israel, why not take up resident in Gaza? Then they would be right in the area to assist when trouble arises.

Frankly Opinionated

As if turning their paltry amount of goods around constituted “denying medical aid”. If “they” were my children, I would say: “Get over yourselves”, but since “they” aren’t as mature as children, they wouldn’t get it. Fits right in with the mentality of Sean Penn and his sinking “rescue boat” during the fiasco that was liberals saving New Orleans. While they are grandstanding and startiming, they are distracting the true valid efforts. SS Moonbat, I like that,,,,,,,,,,
nuf sed

Raoul

Hey IVAW, send Gilligahn!!!

Lucky

ROFLMMFAO! 😀

Ray

Just sit right down and I’ll tell a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip
That started here in Cyperus,
aboard a tiny ship

The mate was a loony Georgia girl
The Skipper crazy sure
with 6 band aids and some Iodine
Wounds in Gaza they would cure
Wounds in Gaza they would cure

The Isralies started playing rough
The tiny ship was tossed
If not for the pity of the Israel crew
The Moonbat would be lost
The Moonbat would be lost

The ship’s now tied up safe in Tyre
And crying to the press
Was Cynthia
And Laurade
Two folks without a real life
The Gaza Group
and the rest of the old Peter Pans
Here on Moonbatty Isle

Jonn wrote: LOL. You’re a regular Robert Frost, Ray.

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Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is a Hamas s…

I remember this woman, who struck a guard at Congress with her cellphone after he tried to stop her from just going through the metal detector without being checked properly. Clearly, she didn’t lose her seat for nothing (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)…

Jill

I think it’s becoming extremely obvious this flotilla never had “peaceful” intentions, and Israel has every right to defend themselves. I would like to invite you to check out my page, Prevent the IHH Flotilla Towards Gaza http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prevent-the-IHH-Flotilla-Towards-Gaza/117646254988615

I appreciate your support.

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