Michelle Malkin » Bon voyage, Jihad Cindy McKinney; Update: Israeli Navy turns back S.S. Moonbat

Bon voyage, Jihad Cindy McKinney; Update: Israeli Navy turns back S.S. Moonbat

By Michelle Malkin • December 30, 2008 12:36 AM

Scroll down for updates…Cindy’s ship intercepted and turned back after crashing into Israeli Navy gunboat…

Move over, Hanoi Jane Fonda. Jihad Cindy McKinney is sailing to Gaza to deliver medical supplies to Hamas.

Is it a one-way ticket? We can only hope. Via the AJC:

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is a high-profile member of a boatload of activists that set sail Monday from Cyprus to deliver medicine to war-torn Gaza.

McKinney, who ran as the Green Party candidate for president, sees the voyage as a humanitarian mission, said her father, former Georgia state Rep. Billy McKinney.

“Her mother did not want her to go,” he said, referring to concerns at home for her safety. “But I think that certain people have missions in life and you can’t deter them.”

The activists, organized by the Free Gaza Group, said their 66-foot yacht called “SS Dignity” would defy an Israeli blockade of Gaza and ferry 16 activists and three tons of Cypriot-donated supplies. The supplies are intended to help treat the wounded from Israeli bombings against targets in Gaza, in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns.

Flashback: Cynthia McKinney’s Arab and Islamist Donors

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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.
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.

Protest boat organizer Derek Graham said the Israeli ship “rammed” the protest boat.
According to the ‘Free Gaza’ website of the boat’s organizers (which I will not grace with a link), the boat is now headed to ’safety’ in Lebanon.

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#579811

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:06 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

Does an X-Wing fighter count?
#579813

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

On December 30th, 2008 at 4:30 pm, nail49 said:
There is NO winning the hearts and minds of terrrorists!

Grab them by the (groin); Heart & Minds will follow.

Or in layman’s terms: You make it so damn costly and painful to harbor terrorist they won’t. Israel pulled out of Gaza, left an infrastructure those people could use to build a country and what was the results? The mohammedans were firing rockets into Israel before the last of the settlers left.
When Hamas or Hizbollah or some other group holds these big rallies waving their Kalashnikov Israel needs to drop some artillery on them.

And when I find myself getting soft I put my copy of Hanoi Hilton in the VCR. It is the only Viet Nam War movie I have seen, but it is enough.
#579814

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm, sonofdy said:

My dad does work as a contractor in Iraq… I do live about an hour from Hill AFB. HMMMM how hard can it be to fly an F-16. Its got a stearing wheel right???
#579817

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:11 pm, chapoutier said:

My dad does work as a contractor in Iraq… I do live about an hour from Hill AFB. HMMMM how hard can it be to fly an F-16. Its got a stearing wheel right???

And conveniently, I can be your own version of a tough-as-nails-no-nonsense “Chappy”.
#579818

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:12 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

sonofdy,

just don’t ever forget; gas on right, brake on left and you’ll do fine.
#579819

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:12 pm, nail49 said:

HMMMM how hard can it be to fly an F-16

Simple, all you have to remember is pull stick back, houses get small. Push stick forward, houses get BIG!
#579822

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:14 pm, chapoutier said:

Simple, all you have to remember is pull stick back, houses get small. Push stick forward, houses get BIG!

And press the little button on the stick and the houses go boom?
#579823

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:15 pm, nail49 said:

press the little button on the stick and the houses go boom?

You learn quickly!

For our next lesson we will learn to drop the crowd-pleasers (anything over 10MT!) and make lots of houses go boom at once!
#579824

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:16 pm, sonofdy said:

Simple, all you have to remember is pull stick back, houses get small. Push stick forward, houses get BIG!

And if I pull this handle labeled ejec…… booommm aaaaahhhhhhhhhh
#579826

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:19 pm, nail49 said:

if I pull this handle

sonofdy, I should have warned you to only move the shiny switches and leave the dull ones alone. Unless there is an emergency and then you move all the switches in any order you can.

Also, remeber to not smoke within 24 hours of flying and don’t drink within 50 feet of the airplane. Or was that…?
#579827

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:20 pm, happyscrapper said:

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:14 pm, chapoutier said:

Simple, all you have to remember is pull stick back, houses get small. Push stick forward, houses get BIG!

And press the little button on the stick and the houses go boom.

My laugh of the day! I knew you wouldn’t fail me, Chap!
#579830

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:27 pm, sonofdy said:

THUMP… (parachute didn’t deploy nail49 packed it and was a little pissed at me)….
#579833

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:30 pm, nail49 said:

parachute didn’t deploy

I was looking for a SPLAT!

No hard feelings, today’s thread was vigorous and invigorating.

Keep fighting the good fight, whether running convoys or calling in strikes — we need more good people like you out there defending our freedoms!

Cheers!
#579856

On December 30th, 2008 at 5:49 pm, sonofdy said:

I am expecting to be deployed this year, so we will see. My unit has been expecting deployment for over a year now but they aren’t even taking voluenteers.
#579881

On December 30th, 2008 at 6:24 pm, Lucifer Jones said:

All you need is one submarine.
#579886

On December 30th, 2008 at 6:34 pm, Marie said:

Just saw a photo of McKinney’s boat on FOX NEWS. Too funny. Mashed up good. Hope she has to pay for it!
#579900

On December 30th, 2008 at 6:56 pm, MNUSMCDavid said:

may I lock and load? all ready the left …all ready the right… all ready on the firing line… you leftists are really pissing me off.
#579903

On December 30th, 2008 at 7:03 pm, ADyer said:

Absolutely the wrong action to deal so weakly with the McKinney boat. It was a ship attempting to deliver supplies to an enemy at wartime and when it attempted to ram them it should have been fired upon and sunk with haste. Not doing so sends completely the wrong signal and beyond emboldening idiot terrorist supporters like McKinney it has the potential to directly kill a lot of sailors if such a boat loaded with explosives were to perform an attack like the one on the Cole.
#579905

On December 30th, 2008 at 7:07 pm, John Deaux said:

On December 30th, 2008 at 4:53 pm, AmericanLit said:

Okay, so if I read that correctly, you disapprove of Cynthia McKinney et al.

Give their addresses to Chap, he knows what to do.
#579924

On December 30th, 2008 at 7:55 pm, purealchemy said:

This incident is absolutely hysterical!
McKinney is such a joke and having her little peace activist ship rammed three times by the little Israeli navy is just tooooo rich!
Why does this make me think of Gulliver’s Travels?
#579945

On December 30th, 2008 at 8:40 pm, shooter said:

Jihad Cindy sure does like running police barriers, huh.
Did she slap anyone yet?

I’m sure it’s been said, but I didn’t look at all the comments…yet.
#579946

On December 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm, shooter said:

Don’t ~~taze~~ RAM me Bro!

BTW, Is she over there on our dime?
#580484

On December 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm, jw said:

Has anyone seen a vid of the actual incident? The McKinney group has video before and after but some how no one had a camera during the incident.
#580786

On January 1st, 2009 at 6:34 am, RetFireman said:

The only idiots who culd possibly believe that an Israeli war ship could “ram” a yacht and have that yacht still remain afloat, with no one injured, no real damage etc. would be other Dhimmi, anti-American, anti-Semitic, holocaust deniers and seditionists and traitors.

She knows her audience. That audience are the home-grown morons I just mentioned, hangers-on from other countries like Britain and France, and the jihadis they support against American rules.

Can someone PLEASE begin traitor and sedition hearings and proceedings on this whack-a-do soon? Just how much does this freak really need to do before someone throws her into a deep, dark, dank cell somewhere and throw away the key?

Better yet, let her go and hang out with her homies at Git-Mo. Let her get an up close and personal experience of all the “atrocities” that go on in there.
#582000

On January 3rd, 2009 at 12:41 pm, LOBOMAN said:

Where are the pirates when you need them?