At least Dem politicians provide something constructive--comic relief. McKinney has less credibility than many Dems and that's really saying something:
From the Asinine Press(AP):
McKinney relief boat hit by Israeli ship
By CRAIG SCHNEIDER, December 30, 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A boat carrying international peace activists, including former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip sailed back into a Lebanese port on Tuesday after being turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy, organizers of the trip said.
Petros Karadjias/AP
Cynthia McKinney is aboard the yacht Dignity, which set sail from Cyprus on Monday.
“Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and one on the side,” McKinney told CNN Tuesday morning.
Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry, denied there had been any shooting although the two ships had made “physical contact.”
Palmor said there was no response to a radio warning to the Dignity, and the vessel then tried to out-maneuver the Israeli patrol boat, leading to the collision.
McKinney called on President-elect Obama to address the Gaza crisis, saying the weapons being used by Israel were supplied by the United States.
McKinney denied that the incident was an accident. “What the Israelis are saying is outright disinformation,” she said. “What happened to us last night was a direct threat to our mission, but not our cause.”
Palmor called those allegations “absurd.”
“There is no intention on the part of the Israeli navy to ram anybody,” Palmor said.
McKinney is a high-profile member of a boatload of activists that set sail Monday from Cyprus to deliver medicine to war-torn Gaza.
— The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
