‘The Israelis hijacked us,’ McKinney says in call from prison
Published: July 3, 2009
Updated 5 months ago
“Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, relatives and supporters said,” the Associated Press reports.
The AP add that “the Free Gaza Movement sent the ship loaded with humanitarian supplies and 21 activists and crew from Cyprus.”
“Because we wouldn’t turn around, the Israelis hijacked us,” former Rep. Cynthia McKinney told WBAIX in a phone call from Ramle jail, near Ben-Gurion airport. “Because we wanted to give crayons to the children of Gaza.”
Along with McKinney, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire is still being held by Israel.
“It is incumbent upon President Obama to stand by his reported policy of easing the Gazan blockade and of allowing building supplies, medical supplies, and school supplies to go through,” McKinney said. “We call upon President Obama to use the highest level of his authority to transmit this message to the Israelis.”
Sandra Law, mother of detained British activist Alex Harrison, and whose daughter is also being held at Ramle jail believes “the planned deportation of the activists may have been delayed by their refusal to sign legal documents in Hebrew, which they do not understand,” the AP adds.
This video is from WBAIX (via YouTube), broadcast July 2, 2009.
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Fight the good fight, Ms. McKinney. The sympathizers have the media on lockdown. I recall the last time your boat was hijacked by the Israelis. There was a CNN reporter on your boat.
He confirmed what happened. My how they started to conceal his recollection of events as the day went on.
The psychopathic hatred the israeli zionist psychopaths engender is simply amazing to me.
Here, you’ve got a country that’s been under occupation for over half a century. To say they live like dogs would be an understatement. It’s a gigantic, open air prison. Israel illegally exploits every aspect of their lives, leaving them in squalid conditions. We wouldn’t allow an American to treat an animal this way, but ti’s the norm for Palestine.
And now, a humanitarian aid ship loaded with olive trees (To replace the ones the jew psychopaths have destroyed) and crayons is boarded in international waters and a former American Congresswoman has been kidnapped.. and these fruitcakes in the comments section blame her… Proving once again that zionism is a debilitating mental illness..
These jews put Hitler to shame in many respects.. This is hardly surprising, as they are the ORIGINAL, SELF PROCLAIMED MASTER RACE. The worst part, they aren’t even ashamed of it. They brag about it openly.. They claim that God himself sanctions their evil.
Your taxpayer dollars at work!
Thank you Cynthia McKinney..You are a treasure for what you are doing..
And remember the USS Liberty!
PS: Why are we subsidizing these lunatics and kidnappers?
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….I knew the “Spirit of Humanity” would fall to Israeli piracy the minute I received on June 25, from an official of an Israeli peace organization, a “public advisory” that the government of Cyprus had withheld permission for the “Spirit of Humanity” to leave for Gaza. The US State Department had advised that “The Israeli Foreign Ministry informed U.S. officials at the American Embassy in Tel Aviv that Israel still considers Gaza an area of conflict and that any boats attempting to sail to Gaza will not be permitted to reach its destination.” The “Spirit of Humanity” obtained permission to leave Cyprus when all aboard signed a waiver absolving Cyprus of all responsibility for the crew’s safety at the hands of the Israelis.
As President Obama has called for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza, and as the International Red Cross has damned the inhumanity of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the question that immediately comes to mind is why did not the United States send a sufficient US Navy escort to see the “Spirit of Humanity” safely through international waters to Gaza? We send ships against Somalian pirates, why not against Israeli ones?
We all know the answer. The US talks a good “human rights” game, but never delivers — especially if the human rights abuser is Israel. After all, Israel owns the US Congress and President Obama. Israel even has an Israeli citizen and former member of the Israeli Defense Forces as the chief-of-staff in Obama’s White House. Israel owns millions of American “Christian Zionists” and “rapture evangelicals.” When it comes to Israel, the American government is a puppet state. It does what it is told….
Source: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4866.shtml
The pirates are not Somalians, they are fucking israelis. And pay us for the USS Liberty you bunch of sand ridden fire ants from hell.
You folks, you folks are pathetic. The reason they’re allowing those comments to happen is because Israel definitely deserves them.
Israel is acting like a bunch of Nazis and spreading the “Jews hatred” everywhere, on purpose as always, and people have no choice but to react and vent which is better than keeping it bottled up.
So all the venting comments are for people to get their emotions out and stop keeping them inside.
Israel I tell you, is probably too far gone. This isn’t a new occurrence as they’ve acted like assholes for 60+ years and before that when they were the European colonizers they really weren’t much different.
This is about Zionists, these Zionists are such nazi like people they attack other Jews in israel or visitors to Israel and Arabs too as though they were worthless scum.
Zionists have done enough damage to this world and we need to cut off military aid to Israel & somehow cross our fingers and hope they stop. Israel acts like terrorist nazis to everyone, then they blame everyone else and attack them in the USA as well because they hate admitting it.
Israel and all her puppets like George Bush Senior and the famous Nazi Colonel Dana Wilcox and Henry Kissinger, are a New World Order.
They are the New World Order and Israel acts like ‘O Captain my Captain Can you Hear the Bells’ while she persecutes, murders, and pillages everyone else.
Israel and this Zionist World Order are living on borrowed time, they best make their peace because they can deny it all they want……but the world will simply hold up a mirror.
People had best pray for Congresswoman McKinney’s safety as she is in a very dark, very bad place now and there’s almost no one who likes to go inside that evil place where they drag their prisoners. She is at risk.
Thanks to Raw Story. It allows all these Klanish Jew-haters to vent their bile in a harmless, nobody-gives-a-shit / their-opinions-don’t-mean-a-thing kind of way and stops them from psychotic shoot up the Holocaust museum melt downs. RS is providing a public service.
Your post is nothing but a sound byte, and a poor one at that. Watch how this silly sentiment works equally well both ways:
“Thanks to Raw Story. It allows all these Klanish Goy-haters to vent their bile in a harmless, nobody-gives-a-shit about McKinney/ the Palestinians and war crimes-don’t-mean-a-thing kind of way and stops them from psychotic shoot up Gaza with helicopter gunship style melt downs. RS is providing a public service.”
There.. Now which way is more accurate?
Jawohl mein Kapitan. Du bist korrect. Danke schon fur your wisdom. Ve vill get those Jews.
Brilliant rejoinder.. Truly school yard quality.
Bravo!
jhoffax, I recall reading an article in the Jerusalem Post in February soliciting people to help launch a massive PR offensive to influence world opinion in Israel’s favor by bombarding the internet with comments refuting anything and everything that might be said critical of Israel as a result of their Gaza attack. They wanted 1000s and many Israeli citizens enthustically indicated their willingness to be a participate.
You are correct..
Google “Megaphone tool” + Israel
It’s a sort of IM device used to call collective attention to negative articles and other sorts of undesirable portrayals of Israeli’s actions.
There’s also their activity on YouTube. They opened an IDF channel to broadcast Israeli propaganda.
There is also evidence that they have infiltrated Twitter in massive numbers, and for the same reason.
When the Israelis pulled out of Gaza the inhabitants stockpiled weapons and attacked them.
In Lebanon left to their own devices Hamas etal. dug in and stockpiled weapons.
Isreal has to protect herself.
The countries in the mideast could absorb a portion of the displaced and they could start new lives.
“In Lebanon left to their own devices Hamas etal. dug in and stockpiled weapons.”
I think you mean Hezbollah, you’re just not bright enough to realize it.
Since what you don’t know is obviously allot, let me tell you something else about Hezbollah. Besides being a militia style defense force (Which is the ONLY aspect you’re going to hear about in the MSM) it may interest you to know that they also are a legitimate part of the government, they operate training, (Like helping farmers with agriculture, for one example) outreach and aid programs as well as providing high quality health care.. One of the only groups in the area to address these issues. It’s no wonder they are popular with the locals.
Ya know, you should really be careful lumping people together with simple epithets like “ragheads” or contrasting everyone who isn’t an Israeli Jew as either a terrorist or an enabler.
I’ll tell you something else, the second largest number of Jews in the middle east live in Iran and they’re anti-zionist as well, and for religious purposes. Imagine that? It seems they believe God himself sent them into the diaspora, and they don’t wish to displease him by doing what the zionists are doing. This group routinely turns down cash bribes and promises of land (Guess where that would come from? Does the term “more settlers” ring a bell?”) to remain where they are, in Iran under a man who has been as inaccurately portrayed as the “New Hitler” as you have portrayed Hezbollah above.
There’s much more going on here than meets the eye. Please study the history and the facts on the ground before commenting. The effort is worth it, I assure you.
Oh god, just stop and shutup for once!!
That is such a copout! The ARABS and original HEBREWS were there first, it was their land long ago when it was actually Judea and when Israel came in and ripped them from their homelands that - THAT war crime is where they all went crazy.
The Arabs didn’t care about the Jews until that point, in fact they got along JUST FINE thank you.
After ripping apart their homeland into smithereens, the Zionists had done enough damage to make the Arabs react and go violent all over the place.
They would have left them COMPLETELY ALONE if Israel didn’t “defend” itself by becoming a terrorist Nazi state, constantly expanding its borders on their land. And you know it, everyone knows it, the entire episode Israel did was an ETHNIC CLEANSING.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
Israel was in the wrong!!!!!!! They freaking did something so stupid, so immoral and evil, that nobody in the Arab community could forgive them for it. They ripped them out of their own homes and slaughtered them like Animals. That was it. The Arabs would have stopped long ago, if Israel hadn’t kept expanding its borders. It WILL end and it MUST end over there.
Bullshit!
Don’t twist this bullshit to say “jew-haters”, clean the fucking scum out from under your fingernails and read this: Israel ARE ZIONISTS–THEY put the Star of David on THEIR TANKS and RUN PEOPLE OVER.
I cleaned the scum out and your mom fell on the floor.
PS: Those unfamiliar with the conflict might benefit from looking up a thing called “Abraham’s Inheritance” as it is the root cause of the unrest and occupation. It is also why so many rational, sane and fair attempts to quell the violence and end the conflict have failed, and will continue to fail.
Additionally (and although misguided in my view) it is the reason so many evangelicals in the US support Israel, regardless of the legality of their actions or the barbaric methods they choose to employ.
I find Abraham’s betrayal of his eldest son, Ismael, to be one of the most heartbreaking stories of the OT. Ismael was something like 12 or 13 years old when Issac was born and was, according to the laws of the time, Abraham’s rightful heir. Just imagine, for all of those years before Isaac was born, Abraham proudly and lovingly raised Ismael to have confidence in the belief that he was the beloved and rightful heir of his father (whom he no doubt loved deeply) only to have his father betray him and run he and his mother off into the wilderness–destitute.
I’ve read regarding children born of a “mixed” jewish/non-jewish marriage, if the mother of the children is Jewish and the father is not, then the children are considered jewish, but if the father is jewish and the mother is not, then the children are not Jewish. Just how the hell does that work? In any other “mixed” marriage, the offspring are considered to be a mixture of both races, or whatever. Maybe it goes back to Ismael and Isaac as a means of legitimizing Abraham’s actions and Isaac’s claim to the inheritance. (Isaac’s mother was jewish, Ismael’s mother was not.)
The OT provides many examples of Israel’s history of betrayal and deception in order to further its own interests over the interests of their god, and its stubborn unwillingness to take responsibility for their actions or in any way own up to their part in creating so much chaos and “turn their face back to their god” (which of course is, according to the biblical version, why god punished them to begin with and scattered them throughout the world.)
Megaphone & Free Republic:
Directs to all online polls & tells one how to vote…
gravel kucinich paul nader
mckinney ventura too
perotcharts.com
RATM
Wall Street
Art students
9/11 snow job
Chicken hawks
Moving company
Propaganda media
DNC stealth neocons
Anti-semitism accusers
The chosen the superior
2-3% of the US population
Extortion blackmail bribery
By deception ye shall wage war
AIPAC’s Israel-first dual-nationals
For profit NotFederal NoReserve scam
Words are plentiful deeds are precious!
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….I knew the “Spirit of Humanity” would fall to Israeli piracy the minute I received on June 25, from an official of an Israeli peace organization, a “public advisory” that the government of Cyprus had withheld permission for the “Spirit of Humanity” to leave for Gaza. The US State Department had advised that “The Israeli Foreign Ministry informed U.S. officials at the American Embassy in Tel Aviv that Israel still considers Gaza an area of conflict and that any boats attempting to sail to Gaza will not be permitted to reach its destination.” The “Spirit of Humanity” obtained permission to leave Cyprus when all aboard signed a waiver absolving Cyprus of all responsibility for the crew’s safety at the hands of the Israelis.
As President Obama has called for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza, and as the International Red Cross has damned the inhumanity of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the question that immediately comes to mind is why did not the United States send a sufficient US Navy escort to see the “Spirit of Humanity” safely through international waters to Gaza? We send ships against Somalian pirates, why not against Israeli ones?
We all know the answer. The US talks a good “human rights” game, but never delivers — especially if the human rights abuser is Israel. After all, Israel owns the US Congress and President Obama. Israel even has an Israeli citizen and former member of the Israeli Defense Forces as the chief-of-staff in Obama’s White House. Israel owns millions of American “Christian Zionists” and “rapture evangelicals.” When it comes to Israel, the American government is a puppet state. It does what it is told….
Source: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4866.shtml
Tried to post this earlier — didn’t make it for some reason.
Jews have nothing to do with what goes on in Palestine.
One should not blame the Jews, it is Israel commiting the crimes,
One should not blame Americans rapeing and murdering in Iraq, it is the U.S.A. commiting the crimes.
One should not blame the English for atrocities, it is the U.K. that are commiting the crimes.
When I see and hear a Zionist “Jew” call a real jew “antisimetic” that is enough to tell me that not only Jews are in danger here but anyone else who is not a Zionist.
As i’ve said before,
“Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews”.
Zionists, one way or the other rule the world, as yet not entirely, we have handed what they already have to them on a silver platter, they are tying up the loose ends for total domination.
God save all of us, including the Jews.
And to HELL with the ZMOB.
The face of the real enemy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dSHl3C9kgY
IF THE JEWS & ZIONIST ARE TWO
C-O-M-P-L-E-T-E-L-Y
DIFFERENT THINGS.
A massive re education of America is needed Immediately
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We are too close to the edge. People will shoot & ask questions later..
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GET AN EXPLANATION ON THERE
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Just trying to be helpful
To understand the Jewish people and if they are what they say as Holy and followers of God. We need only look at actions to those words. Invasion of Palestine and the murdering of thousands of innocent woman/children. Yes the Holy Wall is no longer Holy as Obama’s message to God was in the Israel news paper within 12 hours. Greed continues as we have seen with Brother Bernard Madoff and friends. Yes if anyone looks to mess with Israel they have 150 Nuclear Weapons to use. Now Iran has no Nukes and Israel wants control of Middle East land and oil. Actions of Israel show they haven’t learned one thing and God’s punishment didn’t work. Greed will turn a friend into an enemy as was with Iraq. Israel is said to be the US friend but Greed/Evil could change that quickly.
mckinney would be free right now if she had signed her extradition papers…she refused, so she is still being held, but will be released soon and put on a plane home
the entire event was a publicity stunt in that no aide (except for stuffs that can be used to make bombs) is stopped at the border
i think its rather funny that some here talk about “gods punishment”
if that is the case, and these people truly believe in god, then they should also believe that the land the israeli’s currently occupy is theirs…given to them by god
as for whether one can differentiate between zionists and jews….well, martin luther king jr said that one cannot, and that anyone who used the term zionist in a hateful manner, was nothing but a jew hater
i stand with the king
the majority in this thread are nothing but jew haters
I have a Dream was shown live on TV and Dr. King Jr. didn’t support invasions and murder of innocent people. Smart move to use Dr. King who had to march for peace in the USA, as our Constitution reads all men are created equal. There are some good God following Jewish people and the ones in office are corrupt. We watched Bush use God to get in office and do Evil and he’s the example.
God loved Israel and Israel turned against God. The bible explains the trouble times and how it was hard for the Jewish Priest to believe the Son of God could come to a poor Family. Jesus was crucified as he asked God to forgive them for they know not what they do. Most listen to what their told of the bible and don’t bother to read it themselves. We see God’s actions each day if we chose to look. I don’t think God was happy to see Israel soldiers use Custer bombs and watch a 5 year old Palestine girl burn to death. Now as today the biggest problem is Technology and the internet. Yes pictures were shown live and the soldiers who did this testified to their action. The pictures of the suffering and damage was heart breaking as the mission was to wipe the Palestines out. Justify it if you must but God was watching and knows what is in all of our hearts.
Israel gamed her release papers, requiring her to incriminate herself to be free.. The same spirit behind all those (ahem) “confessions” at Gitmo.
“as for whether one can differentiate between zionists and jews….well, martin luther king jr said that one cannot, and that anyone who used the term zionist in a hateful manner, was nothing but a jew hater”
1 I don’t trust your quote and, frankly, don’t believe you. After all, you’ve already proven your ability to misrepresent the terms of McKinney’s release.
2 Giving you the benefit of the doubt for just a moment, let me get this straight in my head here.. By your standard, the Orthodox Jews of Iran, the second largest population of Jews in the mideast btw, are “Jew Haters” because they refuse, for religious reasons, to emigrate to Israel and even refuse cash bribes and promises of stolen land to do so?
That makes no sense at all.. So perhaps it’s just hyperbole you cherry picked to flesh out a ridiculous argument?
hezballah hamas the same thing they get their $$$ from the same place and their motivation is the same. Israel exists they won the fight they must protect themselves. It’s time to move on this is their home.
After WWII Jews did not return to Europe to get back their property, there was no real apology. The displaced picked up the pieces of their lives and made the best of it. They moved on.
Religion is just about control power and greed. Move on live your life in a constructive fashion give back to the human race. If you now control Gaza use your shovels to plant crops not dig tunnels to smuggle weapons.
Selfish jerks leverage the poverty they create to produce suicide bombers.
As I said above, what you don’t know is allot.
Go and educate yourself.. Then perhaps you can comment intelligently.
http://ifamericansonlyknew.com/
Where is our Pretender Messiah Obama?
Where is any voice from the USA government on this hijacking?
I think they have displayed there loyalties,,and it appears not to be an American citizen..
So,one can assume Pretender guy Obama, will allow American’s to be abducted,hijacked,jailed,etc by a foreign country,,,
Ms.McKinney is a hero,,not once but twice she has braved and tempted fate,,
Israel Zionist Jews kill…
It may sound blunt,but leave the MSM and read the TRUTH !
You may wish to start with the USA Liberty,,
Israel is the aggressor.
Cynthia McKinney’s effort and sacrifice is historically noteworthy and helpful. It’s a lot more helpful than pecking out your position on a left wing blog site.
I still don’t get, though, why Raw Story names her as “former congresswoman” and not “former presidential candidate and congresswoman.” You repeatedly describe Sarah Palin as “former vice presidential candidate.”