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CONTACT: Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) |
Israel Rams Gaza Relief Boat
WASHINGTON - December 30 - CNN reports: "An Israeli patrol boat struck a boat carrying medical volunteers and supplies to Gaza early Tuesday as it attempted to intercept the vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, witnesses and Israeli officials said.
"CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot, Gibraltar-registered pleasure boat Dignity when the contact occurred. When the boat later docked in the Lebanese port city of Tyre, severe damage was visible to the forward port side of the boat, and the front left window and part of the roof had collapsed.
"The Dignity was carrying crew and 16 passengers -- physicians from Britain, Germany and Cyprus and human rights activists, including former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- who were trying to reach Gaza through an Israeli blockade of the territory.
"The captain of the Dignity said the Israelis broadcast a radio message accusing the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity. But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor denied that and said the radio message simply warned the vessel not to proceed to Gaza because it is a closed military area."
The following representatives of the Free Gaza Movement are available for interviews:
EWA JASIEWICZ
LUBNA MASARWA
CAOIMHE BUTTERLEY
RAMZI KYSIA
GRETA BERLIN
Up-to-date information is available at the Free Gaza web page.
"CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot, Gibraltar-registered pleasure boat Dignity when the contact occurred. When the boat later docked in the Lebanese port city of Tyre, severe damage was visible to the forward port side of the boat, and the front left window and part of the roof had collapsed.
"The Dignity was carrying crew and 16 passengers -- physicians from Britain, Germany and Cyprus and human rights activists, including former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- who were trying to reach Gaza through an Israeli blockade of the territory.
"The captain of the Dignity said the Israelis broadcast a radio message accusing the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity. But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor denied that and said the radio message simply warned the vessel not to proceed to Gaza because it is a closed military area."
The following representatives of the Free Gaza Movement are available for interviews:
EWA JASIEWICZ
LUBNA MASARWA
CAOIMHE BUTTERLEY
RAMZI KYSIA
GRETA BERLIN
Up-to-date information is available at the Free Gaza web page.
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5 Comments so far
Show AllBring America Back !!!! Cindy McKinney, if I ever passed you off as a heavy
tempered spoiled brat of the US House of Representatives, I apologize .
****For now you most certainly are an American Heroin==very nice try to
get Meds & Supplies to the needy Gazans, before your boat was rammed
by the Israeli Jackboot patrol ships !!!
****We must get you a nice Position with the New Administration..& may
I modestly suggest the Ambassadorship to the MidEast, or to Israel at
the very least ????
***When you present your Ambassador credentials around DC, and thruout
the MidEast==just explain you received much of your training from a
man known as OSKAR SCHINDLER. Especially the Israelis will recognize
you and remember you, from then on !!
***We salute you Cynthia McKinney, modern day Heroin,
Sorry, double post from above.
What is not understandable is why Israel is not censured by the United Nations? Hamas also needs to be censured for instigating the conflict, but Israel seems to be committed to killing as many Palestinians as they can. They are bent on eliminating Hamas completely. Obviously human life has no worth to either of these groups. Each of those murdered were human beings who had a life. They no longer have a life. But does that matter to either the Israelis or the Palestinians? It is way too coincidental that conflict has erupted at this time. Right at the brink of a possible settlement. Palestine deserves a country of its own, but Israel deserves to be left to its own borders. What I do not understand is why with all the land the Arabs have, a country for Palestine is not carved out for them from the surrounding Arabs nations.
Bring America Back !!!! To educate Shenonymous, reason is, as in the recent Lebanon bombings, many UN Nation members vote to censure/punish Israel, but
then, sure as shootin', big sister USA has a Veto Vote in the Security Council
and casts it in favor of Israel, each and every time. The US Ambassador to
the UN is always an AIPAC Puppet..neocon right wing zionist extremist..&
Israel can do no wrong ! As we speak Now, world opinion is to Stop Israel,
but US is a Zionist puppet, Egypt just sits on its pyramids, the Saudis
count their oil barrels, the UN is mired in it's system of Vetos, despite
dead and persecuted ! One more example, if Germany had a Veto Vote in the UN,
Hitler may just be alive and well, basking on the beach in Argentina.
**No charge for the education course.
Why is it not obvious that Israel is continuing to steal more and more land which has never belonged to them, and never "promised" by the British who at one time thought they could take anything they felt like having?.. Why should other Arabs create space (which they have anyway) for the Palestinians who have had their land stolen by the Europeans? If the US and Europe are so magnanimous towards Israel why not create Israel Part 2 in say Texas or Wyoming or the Ukraine or the South of France? Hey that would be cool - somewhere other than where the Palestinians have lived for thousands of years. Give them a break, just because they speak funny and cry a lot when their homes are being knocked down and their children squashed doesn't mean they don't deserve a life. They don't even have oil for goodness sake leave them alone....