Black Congresswoman Taken Into Custody In Israel
The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to sail to an Israeli port, the military said.
A statement said the Greek-registered freighter Arion ignored a radio message from the Israeli military saying it would not be allowed to enter Gaza waters and ordering it to turn back.
The statement said naval personnel boarded the small vessel without any shots being fired.
The military said those on board would be handed over to immigration authorities on arrival in the southern port of Ashdod, and humanitarian cargo would be trucked into the Gaza Strip after a security check. The ship arrived at Ashdod port after nightfall.
An earlier statement by the voyage’s organizers, the Free Gaza Movement, said the vessel, renamed the Spirit of Humanity, left the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Monday bound for Gaza with three tons of medical supplies.
The 20 passengers include former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire and other activists from Britain, Ireland, Bahrain and Jamaica.
The ship was flying a Greek flag, but no Greek citizens were aboard. The Greek government issued a statement saying it sent a message to Israel demanding that it release the ship, crew and passengers.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel was planning to free the crew and passengers. “Nobody wants to keep them here,” he said. “They will be released as soon as they are checked.”
The Free Gaza Movement has organized five boat trips to Gaza since August 2008, defying a blockade imposed by Israel when the militant group Hamas seized control of the territory from its Palestinian rivals in June 2007.
Two other attempts were stopped by Israeli warships during Israel’s three-week war in the territory in December and January. Nobody on board was harmed.
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HISTORY LESSON ANYONE…THE ANCIENT HEBREW CUSTOMS AND PRACTICES WHO’S LEGACY ORIGINATED IN AFRICA,WERE ADOPTED BY THAT OF WHITE JEWS IN EUROPE!tHE CAUCASIAN JEWS ARE NOT THE LINEAL DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM,ISAAC,AND JACOB.NOR DO THE SO-CALLED JEWS CONSTITUTE A SEPERATE RACE BUT RATHER A RELIGIOUS FRATERNITY WHICH ADHERES TO THE ETHNIC TRADITION OF A PEOPLE WHOSE ORIGINS ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO AFRICA.THE ORIGINAL AFRICAN JEWS WERE CAUGHT IN A REBELLION IN CYRENE(LIBYA TODAY)DURING 115 C.E. AGAINST ROMAN IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM.DUE TO THIS CONFLICT,THE AFRICAN JEWS MIGRATED SOUTHWARD INTO SOUDAN(SUDAN),FUJA,JALON,AND SENEGAL.THE ORIGINAL JEWS FINALLY ARRIVED TO THE CITY OF TIMBUKTU! WAKE UP PEOPLE! WOE BE UNTO TO THEM WHO CLAIM THEY ARE JEWS AND ARE NOT!
Phyllis_52 & ADifferentMan7:
When are you brainwashed zombies of the false gospel going to wake up?
The truth is before your very eyes.
Over 2000 y.o. of religious indoctrination is no excuse to turn a blind eye to the injustices wrought upon humanity by folks who believe they are GODS chosen. Have you heard…just about most of the three majors all believe that God’s love exists solely for them.Problem is…none of them can prove it, so they waste lives trying to outdo each other in the atrocities committed against one another in GOD’S name.
That’s a human trait, to have each child competing viciously for the father’s love.
No true spiritualist can attribute such traits to The Source of All Life.
We compete w/ each other for greed.Not God.
Humanity was designed to thrive thru cooperation w/ one another.
Judeo-Christianity/Islam is only serving to be most effective @ keeping God’s children apart.
How dare you equate the quality and value of human life to scriptures written in a book that for centuries people would be killed for learning how to read[The Bible].
As for keeping the faith—My faith in zealous fools is long gone as I now see them for the over-simplistic charlatans they really are.
Wake up.
Humanity needs you to use the mind God gave you to
THINK FOR YOURSELF!
Really, if you all want to know it, The entire Middle East was Jewish except Saudia Arabia. Now in 1600, 300 Islams begin taking over the other countries and now there are more Islam countries than Jewish. But we have to keep in mind that whatever happens with Israel and the other surrounding countries has already been written in the book of life, therefore, there is nothing we can do to change it. Keep the faith.
If they were cooking fried chicken, collard greens, potato salad, cornbread, and sweet-potato pie. Served with cold beer. I think i would take a trip to Gaza myself.
ADifferentMan7, what is this nonsense you speak.God didn’t give the jews anything, a coalition of western nations gave the jews Israel.Maybe you need a history lesson, and not some biblical mumbo jumbo fused into your head by con-artist with weird clothing and fancy titles.The Palestinians were living in the land you now know as Israel in the 40s and 50s when western forces with guns,tanks, and aircraft shot and bomb their way in.They gave the jews the land and forced the Palestinians to except it.Not non existing god was involved in the matter.
Like Cythnia McKinney, there are many well-meaning but clearly misguided souls in this country. Unfortunately, most of them are still in Congress.
People need to leave Isreal alone. They are trying to survive and if my back was against the wall. Believe me I would come out fighting. God gave the Land that Israel on to the Jewish people. This is Issac and Ishmael are fighting still. Palenstinans are actually my refugees by there own arabs brothers and that is the truth. God will stand for Israel if we dont. I just pray that we dont turn our back on Israel. If we do God is going to put a hurting on the USA. Cynthia better learn quick God dont play about his people.
I am proud of her for this. Jews have, for the longest, declared war on the Palestinians. When the Palestinians try to protect themselves, they are called terrorists. People are dying in the Gaza strips from the lack of medical equipments, doctors, and medicine. All so that the Jews can steal their land and live in Palestine (now their so called Israel).
The President should take note of this Congresswoman’s action because she seriously made him look like a wimp.
Nobody here needs History lesson because She got the balls to defied Israel authority and do you also know Israel doesn’t give a s**t about international laws it’s non existence for them. Who are to say that she needs the proper clearance to enter the water way and delivered medical supplies this is humanitarian aides…. in any case the Israel government would denied them the proper clearance….
That’s why the Jews in the US got more power than the US government.
That’s what happen today there’s a few leaders that’s willing to take the fight to the unrighteous.
Unlike worthless, no testicles leader that occupies the white house; Cythnia McKinney is a true leader. She did not bow down so-called nation of Israel. She exposed the Bush regime and their involvement in September 11th. But, the American people, the many that fell asleep, watched as another puppet entered the white house. I use lower case letters on propose concerning the white house because it isn’t important except for letting this satanic nation know who built it for free. God Bless Cynthia only.
If Hamas was in the movie business. They would put out hundreds of blockbuster movies. Because they are the best actors in the world. As for the former congresswoman. Foolish people, do foolish things. Its just their nature.
First off, For those of you who are not here in this region,as I have been for the Past 91/2years. You first need to overstand something.
Yelling let her go ASAP!
Miss me with that if you are not here then you do not know what is really going on, She should have had the proper paperwork in order to be in Controlled waters. and she should have had the captian clear their entry into the region and on a Greek freighter Please…
Second As she is a U.S. Citizen they will let her go but overstand this.
Israel is a Allie to The U.S. and even though it is not a legal State as it was bought by the Rothschild family in order to give a home to the Jebusite (ones calling themselves Jews) it was orginally purchsed for people without a homeland those are the caninites and Amorites that live in that area now. They were Mountainers (White Folk) who took on the Way of Life of Abraham and started calling themselves Jew.
If she was there trying to support the Palestinian cause with Medical Supplies, then technically in the eyes of Israel, she and the crew are in violation of crossing into Israeli territory illegally in support of their enemy, and being that the U.S. has an unbreakable alliance with Israel there is nothing they will or going to do other than ask for her to be released. which will happen as to not destroy relations with the two.
But do not get it twisted, Just because you are a U.S. citizen and you come in this region bumping your gums about being an American that gets you no where but dead.
Wake Up! and Stop commenting on things you know nothing about
She was in the Wrong and She Knew it. she should have file the proper Clearance before she came here and thought it was all good because she a State official LOL Yeah Right
Nigga Please!
Hotep Wa A’shug
“Only Fools Duck When The Truth is Thrown At Them!”
thats what happenes when u try to go on or territory with no permission leader or not a leader u need permission dont think if your someone u can go in…..
OH…THEY BETTER LET HER GO…SHE’S REAL FOLK RIGHT THERE…LET HER GO…ASAP!
thats whats up!!!!
Cynthia Mckinney makes me proud to be from Atlanta
It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
May God bless Cynthia for her principled actions. She is a woman of her words and has the actions to prove it. She stands for justice here and abroad. She is a real black leader.
big props to Ms. Mckinney for her freedom fighting efforts…I wonder if this story will get as many comments as the Joe Jackson story…We need to get our priorities straight! but of course that’s like talking to wall!!!