The very latest from Cynthia and Free Gaza Movement...

[LordLindsey]

http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article18959



"July Wednesday 1  2009 (23h32) :
Israeli Pirates comandeer Aid vessel in International waters
US remains silent over McKinney arrest by Israel

Nearly a day after the detention of former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney by Israeli forces, Washington has yet to make a reaction.

Israeli Navy detained former US congresswoman and Nobel Prize laureate Cynthia McKinney and twenty other human rights activists on board a relief boat outside Israel's territorial waters on Tuesday as they were heading to Gaza on a humanitarian mission.

Tel Aviv claims the boat was trying to break Israel's two-year siege on Gaza.

Ms McKinney — the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States— has accused Tel Aviv of violating the international law by seizing an aid vessel in international waters.

"This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip," McKinney said in a statement.

Green Party leaders have called on the White House and the US State Department to intervene and demand the immediate release of all the activists.

On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned of dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying 1.5 million Palestinians living in the coastal sliver are 'trapped in despair' because of the continuing Israeli blockade on the territory.

Since June 2007, when Israel imposed a blockade on the territory, no raw material has entered Gaza, stalling any attempt to rebuild the strip.

According to the humanitarian agency report, seriously ill patients were not receiving the treatment they needed and thousands of Gazans whose homes were destroyed during Israel's three-week Christmas war were still without shelter.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99 ... =351020202"

[LordLindsey]

http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/g ... oss-europe



"Gaza-london, July 2, ( Pal Telegraph) - The European campaign to end the siege on Gaza (ECESG) called today for international human rights organizations and lobbying groups to organize large protests in front of Israeli embassies across Europe in solidarity with activists of Freegaza Movement. Activists onboard the humanitarian boat were kidnapped by Israeli naval forces while they were sailing in a peaceful mission to end the siege. The call aims at creating factual movements on the ground to release "the spirit of humanity" activists

The boat was boarded by highly-profiled people like Mairead Maguire, winner of a Noble Peace Prize and a former U.S. congressperson, Cynthia McKinney. The vessel was forcibly take to one of the Israeli seaports under direct threats from Naval boats.

Maguire, winner of a Noble Peace Prize was taken against her will and isolated from the rest of the team. The Israeli army didn't care about neither her old age nor her position. Two activists were released only while the rest are in Israeli detention of Ramalah. The exemplary punishment against the activists is a small glimpse of what's happening to 12 thousand Palestinians in Israeli jails.

ECESG is organizing today a number of protests in various European countries to call on releasing the kidnapped peace activists. Protests would be held in Demnark, Italy, Holland and Sweeden

Sameh Habeeb, spokesman of (ECESG), said that the issue is not only showing solidarity for the activists but also for 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in the Gaza strip with no basics.

According to Habeeb, the way Israel treated the activists show the confusions and fluctuation of Israeli policies towards facing the non-violent resistance actions. The boat was only carrying humanitarian needs, toys for children and small quantities of cement.

" We are going to start mobilizing the mainstream in Europe on popular and official levels. The campaign would form a front of politicians and MPs to release the activists and ending the siege on Gaza".

Ramy Abdu, member of the campaign said that ECESG is working to lobby European MPs to participate in future trips of Freegaza movement. He revealed that some MPs and politicians would be on board of future boats.


He said that contacts are being made at the moment to urge MPs to participate and some of them expressed readiness towards the idea."

[LordLindsey]

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99 ... =351020202


"Nearly a day after the detention of former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney by Israeli forces, Washington has yet to make a reaction.

Israeli Navy detained former US congresswoman and Nobel Prize laureate Cynthia McKinney and twenty other human rights activists on board a relief boat outside Israel's territorial waters on Tuesday as they were heading to Gaza on a humanitarian mission.

Tel Aviv claims the boat was trying to break Israel's two-year siege on Gaza.

Ms McKinney -- the 2008 Green Party nominee for President of the United States-- has accused Tel Aviv of violating the international law by seizing an aid vessel in international waters.

"This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip," McKinney said in a statement.

Green Party leaders have called on the White House and the US State Department to intervene and demand the immediate release of all the activists.

On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned of dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying 1.5 million Palestinians living in the coastal sliver are 'trapped in despair' because of the continuing Israeli blockade on the territory.

Since June 2007, when Israel imposed a blockade on the territory, no raw material has entered Gaza, stalling any attempt to rebuild the strip.

According to the humanitarian agency report, seriously ill patients were not receiving the treatment they needed and thousands of Gazans whose homes were destroyed during Israel's three-week Christmas war were still without shelter."

[LordLindsey]

She saw an attorney TODAY, after being held as a HOSTAGE after the act of PIRACY IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS by Israel--how gracious.  I REALLY hope that you people who have been critical of Cynthia McKinney have had your eyes opened by the events that she and the others are experiencing.  You people complain that she doesn't do this or that she doesn't say that, well SHE and the others are being held hostage by Israel and THERE IS SILENCE from the media and the governments about this situation.  A few articles and someone saying that they're "concerned about British nationals" is BULLSHIT.  There is no greater evidence of who is running the world stage than THIS.

LINDSEY

"Cynthia McKinney was able to get a call out to a colleague, Don Debar, she sends a message that she is fine, keep calling, faxing and emailing. Keep protesting, too! She is being held at the Ramle Prison in Israel...she has seen an attorney today provided by Free Gaza. She had no information on any of the 21 being released. Mairead Maguire is possibly being held or detained somewhere else. FREE the FREE GAZA 21! Demand that Israel return the ship along with the DANGEROUS CARGO--CRAYONS!

John Judge (Press Secretary during the 2008 campaign) sent this tonight:
I just got a call from former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney from inside an Israeli prison at Ramale where she and 20 other humanitarian aid workers from 9 different countries are still being held by Israeli authorities. US Embassy officials have spoken to Ms. McKinney and are aware of the situation. Four of the group are US citizens. Among them is Mairead Maguire, from Ireland, a Nobel laureate and renowned peace activist. They have named themselves the "Free Gaza 21." They are demanding their release. They were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when Israeli Navy ships surrounded them and illegally threatened them, dismantled their navigation equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship. All those aboard were then taken off the ship and into custody, and brought into Israel and imprisoned. Immigration officials in Israel said they did not want to keep them, but they remain imprisoned. State Department and White House officials have not effected their release or taken a strong public stance to condemn the illegal actions of the Israeli Navy, enforcing a blockade of humanitarian assistance that has been condemned by President Obama.

ARTICLES COMPILED BY FATIMA:

This article is from the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION
On Wednesday, groups including the Green Party and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as well as users of social networking tools like Twitter urged the Obama administration and the State Department to press Israel to release the detained passengers
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/d ... ab_newstab
According to Le Monde, (in italics) the IDF: No shots were fired during the boarding of the Spirit of Humanity ...the cargo will be sent to competent authorities.
I'll translate more later
http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/ ... 694_0.html
Liveleak has a slightly different take...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6af_1246397975
According to the Telegraph: British Goverment States:
"We have made it clear to Israel that we are very concerned for the safety of British nationals."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... coast.html
And from Al Arabya:
" There is a need for the people of the United States to understand that every piece of rubble that is on that strip of land is caused by U.S. weapons "
Former U.S. Congresswoman McKinney http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/ ... 3.html#000
If anyone has any more info, PLEASE send it to me.
Free the Land!!
Fatima"

[LordLindsey]

This is very well-written, so pass this around.

LINDSEY

http://www.rense.com/general86/pirates.htm




"Pirates Of The Mediterranean
By Paul Craig Roberts
7-1-9
 
On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the "Spirit of Humanity," kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children's toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. The "Spirit of Humanity," along with the kidnapped 21 persons is being towed to Israel as I write.
 
Gaza has been described as the "world's largest concentration camp." It is home to 1.5 million Palestinians who were driven by force of American-supplied Israeli arms out of their homes, off their farms, and out of their villages so that Israel could steal their land and make the Palestinian land available to Israeli settlers.
 
What we have been witnessing for 60 years is a replay in modern times, despite the United Nations and laws strictly preventing Israel's theft of Palestine, of the 17th, 18th, and 19th century theft of American Indian lands by US settlers. An Israeli government spokesman recently rebuked the President of the United States, a country, the Israeli said, who stole all of its land from Indians, for complaining about Israel's theft of Palestine.
 
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 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.
 
Macho Americans might stand tall, but not when Israel snaps its fingers.
 
Israel, of course, will get away with a mere act of piracy. After all, Israel has been getting away with its war crimes and violations of international law for 60 years. If the UN tries to do anything, the US will veto it, as the US has done for decades.
 
What will happen to the kidnapped foreign nationals? Most likely they will be released and sent back to their respective countries. Israel, of course, will keep the stolen "Spirit of Humanity" to foreclose any further attempts by human rights activists to run Israel's inhumane blockade of Gaza.
 
On the other hand, Israel might declare its captives to be terrorists on the ground that the Gazans elected in a free election Hamas as their government. Hamas, unlike Israel, is declared to be a terrorist organization by the puppet American State Department in Washington. Thus the human rights activists onboard the "Spirit of Humanity" are aiding and abetting terrorists by delivering goods to them. The US Department of Justice (sic) prosecutes American citizens and charities for sending aid to Palestinians on the grounds that Palestinians, if not everyone a terrorist, are governed by terrorists.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if a Nobel Laureate and a former member of the US House of Representatives, along with the rest of the crew, are handed over to the Americans for indefinite detention and for torturing and waterboarding in the American torture facility at Bagram. I am certain that "Homeland Security" and the US Government are desperate to be rid of all of critics, and knocking off a Nobel Laureate and a member of the House sets a precedent for getting rid of the rest of us.
 
Meanwhile, California, which has become a failed state, has been denied bailout money from Washington. Israel, which has been a failed state for 60 years, can, unlike the American state of California, always count of Washington to deliver the money and the weapons to keep Israel going.
 
The same week that "our" government in Washington told the Governor of California "not one red cent," President Barak Obama handed over $2.775 billion to Israel.
 
Online Journal (June 29) reported that the handover to Israel of the unemployed Americans' tax dollars took place in a "tiny Capitol room" to which members of the press were denied access. I mean, really, who wants the media writing about US taxpayer dollars for Israel's nuclear weapons while Americans are being kicked out of their homes. Not that, of course, the "Christian" supporters of Israel would mind.
 
Unlike every other recipient of US military largesse, Israel is permitted to bypass the Pentagon and to deal directly with US suppliers. Consequently, the Israel Lobby's influence multiplies, because military suppliers fight for Israel in congressional committees in order to get Israel's business. This lets Israel turn the screws on Iran. According to Grant F. Smith writing in <http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4853.shtml>Online Journal, Republican US Representative Mark Steven from Illinois has received $221,000 in campaign contributions from Israel political action committees (PACs). Therefore, it was a sure thing that he would introduce legislation preventing the Import-Export bank from providing loan guarantees to countries doing business with Iran.
 
Americans think that they are a superpower, but in fact they are a stupor-power. A puppet state if truth be known.
 
There is a great deal of evidence, even in Time magazine that Israel is a child abuser. "God's Chosen People" routinely abuses captured Palestinian children. The Israelis also abuse Palestinian children by shooting them down in the streets.
 
Don't take my word for it. The Geneva-based Defense for Children International says, <http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1906664,00.html>according to Time Magazine, that "the ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian child prisoners appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized, suggesting complicity at all levels of the political and military chain of command."
 
According to Time Magazine, "Often, children suffer lasting traumas from jail. Says Saleh Nazzal from the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoner Affairs, 'When soldiers burst into a house and drag away a child, he loses his feeling of being protected by his family. He comes back from prison alienated from his family, his friends. They don't like going back to school or even leaving the house. They start wetting their beds.' Says Mona Zaghrout, a YMCA counselor who helps kids returning from prison: 'They come out of prison thinking and acting like they are men. Their childhood is gone.' And they often turn to another father figure--the armed militant groups fighting the Israeli occupation.'"
 
And so it goes. There's no money for California, or for Americans' health care, or for the several million Americans who have lost their homes and are homeless, because Israel needs it. Israel need the Americans' taxpayers money to that it can create even more enemies, and, therefore, need more American money to spend with the American armament industries to oppress more Palestinians and to make more enemies, requiring more American money to protect Israel from its folly and its evil.
 
And the brainwashed American public goes along year after year."

[rmstock]

GENUINE OPPOSITION CAMPAIGN UPDATE
Wednesday, July 01 2009 @ 09:26 PM BST
http://800poundgorilla.100webspace.net/ ... 1212643576

The 'Free Gaza' campaign is theatre. The fact that it is being hyped by well-known disinformation agents, including Jeff Rense, Alex Jones and the RBN Network, only confirms this.

What kind of bull is this? Many of you asked, begged, urged us, to point
to larger news media, both alternative and mainstream. Now this, I
think, has been successfully done, the same campaign has suddenly
become a "controlled opposition" frenzy, as there still ain't no
humanitarian aid for the people in Gaza ...

What 'Free Gaza' and McKinney have accomplished here is tremendous. They
have opened the eyes of regular Americans, even the ones only watching
regular news, that the Israeli government is behaving rather strange      
when it comes to giving humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza.

Chapeaux!

[Large Sarge]

I think some folks are selling miss mckinney short also

she risked her life doing this

all of us here know how ruthless the zionists are (killing 3000+ on 9/11, and a 100+ million this last century alone)

pretty easy to sit in front of your computer and moan and groan, versus getting on a small civilian boat, and confronting the israeli navy..


this tactic may work, and more importantly it draws much needed attention to the palestinians

note the articles Paul Craig Roberts has been writing

Hopefully Pat Buchanan could pick this up as well...

not to mention where are the "black leaders" raising holy hell (jesse jackson, al sharpton, etc)

[MonkeySeeMonkeyDo]

I have no time for people like McKinney. Does she explicitly name who the criminals are? No, she uses silly euphemisms like 'special interests'. She is no threat to the Jewish crime network. She's never unequivocally stated ANYTHING that would even be even remotely damaging to them.  As far as 9/11 is concerned I've only heard her ever say "we don't know the truth"..."we need a new investigation". What does this do? NOTHING! She doesn't even go as far as George Galloway, who is an agent of the Jews himself.

I have no time for people who insist on labelling anyone who doesn't do things exactly as they would like them to be done as an 'agent' or a 'shill'.

I never called her an agent or shill, I say she's just too afraid to name the criminals explicitly. This has nothing to do with her work in Gaza so don't try and equate the two.

However I did say that George Galloway is an agent of the Jews, don't believe me? (galloway states that the 'holocaust' -- referring to what he claims was the 'Jewish' holocaust -- was the worst crime of the century) Did he forget that the Jewish Bolsheviks murdered 40Million Orthodox Christians in Russia?)
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He supports locking people up for their 'thoughts'
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He also Supports the 9/11 official story.

She is doing far more than any of us are.

lol, I'm 19, explain what you'd want me to do?
I tell you what I have done, and that is write up an article exposing the Jewish Crime Network that's gotten 10K hits --> http://zioncrimefactory.wordpress.com/israel-did-911/

I've done my due diligence in exposing these criminals...

[Hunter]

19 eh, pretty good work so far

From my understanding, the 800 Monkeys believe that Cynthia will not go any further naming the names and that's a big possible. However you have people like LL that believe that after a few days in an Israeli jail, she might come out fighting.

Come on Cynthia,  name the ADL guy that was involved in your campaign
Name all the dual citizens working for Israel by name and give us examples
Name all the Zio-puppet politicians in DC that work for Israel and state examples, not generalities

Will Cynthia ask to see Barry's passport or birth cert?

[Hunter]

[youtube:4p8s7l3w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPvzSZRuDo[/youtube]4p8s7l3w]

Feck sake Cynthia, what's will all the "Obama do this and Obama do that"
Barry isn't going to stand up to the Jews to save some "Nutjob" as the Jews have made you out to be

[memory hole]

The 'Free Gaza' campaign is theatre. The fact that it is being hyped by well-known disinformation agents, including Jeff Rense, Alex Jones and the RBN Network, only confirms this.

does that include Piper, Glenn and  Tillawi?

I think you need to come back down to earth.

 :lol:

[Large Sarge]

I had a thought on this whole "spread the word"

instead of focussing on media outlets and such

why not focus on "media personalities"


I am thinking

Cindy Sheehan (does she know about 9/11?)

Mel Gibson? (His dad is up on the zionist conspiracy)

Jesse Ventura has made some points (never against israel), but he has shown all the flaws in the "9/11 fairy tale"
Who else??

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

With Obama in office, Cynthia could make some good Pro-Palestine propaganda points Globally by asking Obama personally to help her - kind of in a: Can the Big Brother help a Little Sister with the Israeli Bullies?  But the Obama administration is Fully Jewed up Diplomatically.

If anything, she can definitely wake up her African-American supporters to the Illegal Israeli Blockade over Gaza. She is taking big risks to do this and that is admirable in this fight.  Remember, McKinney does carry a lot of political baggage and may not get the reception she fully deserves due to the MSM. The MSM in the US sees her as a joke -- something to laugh at.