http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gaza/ en-us Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:06:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285988/posts Please, bid in shekels or dollars. Ms. McKinney may learn to appreciate her United States citizenship after this experience, and stop envying Castro, Chavez, and every other country. Here is a capsulized summary of Ms McKinney's history: Cynthia McKinney - one busy woman June 19, 2006 by chrisgraham augustafreepress.com Column by Max Friedman: Cynthia McKinney - One Busy womanIn between hitting cops and and playing the race card, wacko Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., keeps busy with the left on a number of subjects. Just pulling her file is a full day’s work, but it is worthwhile keeping track of her... JoeClarke.Net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285988/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:06:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285818/posts Former congresswoman and current crazywoman Cynthia McKinney is spending a little time in an Israeli hoosegow this week. Only a matter of time, you say? Well, she isn't there because of the time her father blamed her electoral defeat on the "J-E-W-S." Nor, as far as we can tell, is it due to her habit of roughing up cops—although there's no official word about her demeanor when her Greek-flagged Gaza-blockade runner was boarded by the aforementioned J-E-W-S in uniform. McKinney found herself in dangerous waters as part of her new affiliation with the Green Party (she was their presidential nominee... Reason http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285818/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:59:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285594/posts Cynthia McKinney to Appear in Israeli Court After Gaza-Bound Boat Is SeizedFormer U.S. lawmaker Cynthia McKinney is due to appear in an Israeli court Sunday after she and 20 other activists were taken into custody this week when their relief boat was seized by an Israeli naval ship. FOXNews.com Saturday, July 04, 2009 Former U.S. lawmaker Cynthia McKinney is due to appear in an Israeli court Sunday after she and 20 other activists were taken into custody this week when their relief boat was seized by an Israeli naval ship. The 2008 Green Party presidential candidate says the group, "Free... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285594/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:34:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285426/posts Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating. In a press release from the Green Party, McKinney said the form states that the Spirit of Humanity, a Greek-flagged relief boat carrying 21 activists, medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children's toys en route to Gaza, was violating the Israeli blockade and trespassing the country's territorial waters. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285426/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:43:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285293/posts American engineers who serve as consultants for the Egyptian military have recently informed Israel that Hamas has succeeded in digging 60-meter deep smuggling tunnels to avoid detection and destruction by the IDF, defense officials said on Thursday. The American engineers, deployed as consultants along the Philadelphi Corridor in Egyptian Rafah, have been using technology that can detect seismic movements to uncover tunnels. But it is more difficult to detect them once they have reached the 60-meter depth, the engineers told their Israeli counterparts. According to IDF assessments, Hamas now has several hundred active tunnels under the Philadelphi Corridor, even though... JPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285293/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 06:09:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283907/posts HELD AL-QUDS: The Israeli navy on Tuesday boarded and seized a ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists that was heading to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel's blockade, a military spokesman said. "In the last hour an Israeli navy force intercepted, boarded and took control of the cargo boat 'Arion' ... as it was illegally attempting to enter the Gaza Strip," the spokesman said late in the afternoon. The military said the ship, which was sailing under a Greek flag, was the same vessel known as the "Spirit of Humanity", which was sailing to Gaza to protest the Israeli blockade on... The International News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283907/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:23:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283442/posts One of the craziest moonbat politicians in the US, Cynthia McKinney, has been arrested again for trying to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas: Israel navy intercepts boat with ex-U.S. Rep. McKinney. JERUSALEM (CNN) — The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel laureate. The boat’s crew included former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, according to the Free Gaza Movement, a human rights group that sent the boat... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283442/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:25:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283025/posts JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel laureate. The boat's crew included former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, according to the Free Gaza Movement, a human rights group that sent the boat it calls "Spirit of Humanity" from Cyprus. Along with McKinney, who served six terms in the House of Representatives from Georgia and was the Green Party's presidential nominee in 2008, Israeli... CNN.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283025/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:06:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282882/posts Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. --Albert Einstein Former Congresswoman, and professional nut job Cynthia McKinney fits Einstein's definition perfectly. This past December McKinney, who was once arrested for slapping a US Capitol Policeman who asked her for ID, decided to get on a boat in an attempt to get around Israel's blockade and dock the vessel in a war zone so she could help and resupply the terrorist group Hamas. McKinney was on the boat as it was damaged by an Israeli navy vessel which rammed it three times before it was... Fox News / The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282882/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:24:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282757/posts Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Her Gaza-Bound Boat is Seized by Israeli Navy Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party leader Cynthia McKinney, a longtime activist for the Palestinians, says her boat, the Spirit of Humanity, was carrying medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children's toys to Gaza when it was seized by an Israeli navy ship. FOXNews.com Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, whose relief boat was seized by an Israeli naval ship Tuesday for the second time in a year, is demanding the immediate release of her and 20 other... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282757/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:54:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282436/posts The Israel Navy intercepted a boat carrying international activists attempting to break a blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday and forced it to sail to the southern port city of Ashdon, the army said. Earlier Tuesday, the navy surrounded the vessel, which was also carrying humanitarian aid, and told the activists to turn back because of security risks in the area and the blockade, according to the army. But the boat later entered Gaza's coastal waters, the Israel Defense Forces Spokespersons' Office said in a statement, after which a naval force boarded it. No shots were fired during... Ha'aretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282436/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:49:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282430/posts Small ferry carrying medical supplies that set sail from Cyprus Monday with 21 peace activists, medical supplies intercepted off Strip's shore; passengers say army jammed boat's radio signals. At around noon Tuesday the Israeli Navy intercepted and took control of a boat that had set sail for the Gaza Strip with three tons of medical supplies, Palestinian sources said, adding that the Navy jammed the boat's radio signals. The IDF Spokesperson's Office confirmed the report. Israeli military sources said there was no violence after the small ferry, sailing from Cyprus with activists from the US-based Free Gaza Movement, was intercepted... YnetNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282430/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:39:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282425/posts Several IDF navy boats intercepted, boarded and took control of a boat of pro-Arab activists trying to break Israeli sovereignty over coastal waters Tuesday afternoon. No one was injured, and an IDF spokesman told Israel National News that no shots were fired. It was the first time the IDF has boarded one of the boats since the pro-Arab “Free Gaza” movement began sending ships to Gaza last August. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282425/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:33:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281951/posts It’s difficult to make sense out of the foreign policy coming out of the White House under Barack Obama.  On the one hand, Obama insisted that he could not interfere with the internal politics of the “sovereign government of Iran,” refusing for days to even condemn Iran for its flagrantly violent repression of dissent.  When Honduras’ military staged a coup, though, Obama apparently had no such reticence in involving the US on behalf of deposed President Manuel Zelaya — a close ally of Hugo Chavez: In an unusual concurrence of views, the Obama administration and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281951/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:50:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281638/posts Twenty-one human rights and solidarity workers, representing eleven different countries, set sail from Cyprus Monday morning for the Gaza Strip in yet another attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory, the Free Gaza Group announced. The small ferry "Spirit of Humanity" is carrying three tons of medical aid, children's toys, and rehabilitation and reconstruction kits for 20 family homes. It was expected to reach Gaza on Tuesday afternoon. Passengers on board include former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maquire. Free Gaza Group organizer Ramzi Kysia said that each passenger was also... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281638/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:01:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279563/posts European diplomatic sources said Thursday that kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit will be transferred to Egypt in the coming hours or coming days. This information has yet to be confirmed by Israeli officials. According to the European sources, Shalit's transfer is the first stage of an agreement between the various Palestinian factions, assisted by Egyptian mediation and done in coordination with the United States and with the support of Syria. Shalit will be used as a "deposit" toward the completion of a prisoner exchange between the Palestinian factions, the sources said. The agreement will include the exchange of... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279563/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:35:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277363/posts President Barack Obama’s refusal to take a stand on protests in Iran stands in sharp contrast to demands he has made on Israel, Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, says in a Newsmax interview. “I think he should take a strong stand to support the protesters in Iran who want to transform that society into one that promotes democracy and human rights,” Klein says. ”But while meddling in Israel’s affairs and making specific demands, he explicitly states he refuses to meddle in Iran’s policies and has said almost nothing.” Klein says leaders of Jewish organizations are rethinking... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277363/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:12:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276158/posts Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner and I will join 34 others taking medical, school, and building supplies to Gaza. I'd like to thank Nadira Kaili and Erin Connors of Atlantic Television News for donating dollars to help in my purchase of school supplies for Gaza's children. And I want to thank Jay Winter Nightwolf for the turquoise good luck ring that he gave me for this journey. On Tuesday, June 16, President Carter visited Gaza and said that he was almost brought to tears by what he saw. He said that he felt partly responsible because the... Pan-African News Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276158/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:45:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274427/posts U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell has advised Israel to relax restrictions at the Gaza crossings without demanding that Hamas free kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, according to foreign and Israeli media. An American Embassy spokesman told Israel National News, “Mitchell will have to speak for himself. These are very sensitive issues.” Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274427/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:16:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273813/posts ATLANTA (ABP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter is calling Israel's 2-year-old blockade of Gaza an "atrocity" and saying people there are being treated like animals. "Tragically, the international community largely ignores the cries for help, while the citizens of Gaza are being treated more like animals than human beings," Carter said in a June 16 speech in Gaza. Carter's remarks came during visits to Syria, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza following the Carter Center's observation of Lebanese elections June 7. Speaking earlier at Cairo University, Carter said Palestinians in Gaza are being "starved to death" and are receiving fewer... ABP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273813/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:09:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272770/posts Palestinian sources reported Tuesday that former US president Jimmy Carter was the target of a thwarted assassination attempt, according to Israel Radio. Reportedly, there was a cluster of explosive devices stashed near a road he was scheduled to travel during a visit to the Gaza Strip. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272770/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:21:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270979/posts never thought I would say this, but in when I heard the coverage of the most recent interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, I thought that the virulently anti-Semitic pastor got some things right. He just got the verb tense wrong. He said, "Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing [by] the Zionist is a sin against humanity." Ethic cleansing surely is a sin. The Nazis employed this nefarious technique to rid the world street by street, town by town of all the Jews. Surely Gaza and ethnic cleansing belong in the same sentence. However, ethnic cleansing is not... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270979/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:05:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270915/posts Rosie O'Donnell, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and James von Brunn have a lot more in common than not. All have a problem with "Neocons" and two of the three are clear that they have a fear of the power of Jews ... and believe that 9/11/2001 was not the result of jetliners being hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center in New York City. Imagine that! An odd observation and investigation shows intersections of thought and philosophy shared by these three people and it begins to suggest that they all were reading from the same prayer book. The issues in... Now Public http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270915/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:58:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267573/posts Under the cover of morning fog, some 10 gunmen staged a failed assault at the Karni cargo crossing into Gaza on Monday, in which horses laden with explosives were used, a security source told The Jerusalem Post. At least four terrorists and a number of their horses were killed in the ensuing exchange of fire with the IDF. No soldiers were wounded. "A very big terrorist attack was thwarted," the security source told the Post. "These terrorists were armed with a huge quantity of explosives. They launched a combined attack, using mortars, and attempted to approach the border fence with... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267573/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 23:44:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2267132/posts Ten homicide bombers riding booby trapped horses were repelled today as they tried to get into Israel to conduct a massive terror attack. This is the first time the terrorists have used horses as booby traps though other animals have been used as weapons. In 2001, a booby-trapped donkey cart exploded near troops in Gaza, and in 2003 Palestinian's sent an explosives-laden donkey toward troops near the West Bank town of Bethlehem. The donkeys were the only fatalities in both incidents. JPOST/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2267132/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:55:26 GMT