{"id":6592,"date":"2008-12-30T07:11:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2008-12-31T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T10:55:59","slug":"ship-of-fools-turned-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6592","title":{"rendered":"Ship of Fools turned back [Jonn]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/capt9263221a0e8e42568abf5837107e853fcyprus_gaza_blockade_xpk106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6594 aligncenter\" title=\"CYPRUS GAZA BLOCKADE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/capt9263221a0e8e42568abf5837107e853fcyprus_gaza_blockade_xpk106-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/capt9263221a0e8e42568abf5837107e853fcyprus_gaza_blockade_xpk106-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/capt9263221a0e8e42568abf5837107e853fcyprus_gaza_blockade_xpk106.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was snoozing through a Code Pink protest yesterday, news broke from <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/32306_McKinney_to_the_Rescue_for_Hamas\" target=\"_blank\">Little Green Footballs<\/a> that Cynthia McKinney had boarded the SS Moonbat and headed for Gaza with supplies on a three hour tour, three hour tour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[S]he\u2019s getting on a boat in Cyprus with a bunch of international moonbat activists (aka Hamas supporters), planning to run Israel\u2019s blockade on Gaza.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/12\/30\/bon-voyage-jihad-cindy-mckinney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> reported last night that the Israeli Navy had turned the yacht around (only McKinney would conduct an amphibious assault in a yacht);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Update 5:22am Eastern. <a href=\"http:\/\/israelmatzav.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/moonbat-mckinneys-boat-rammed-by.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carl in Jerusalem<\/a> reports that the S.S. Moonbat has been turned back by the Israeli Navy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1051224.html\" target=\"_blank\">Haaretz<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Free Gaza Movement told Reuters their boat, carrying 3.5 tons of medical aid with 16 people aboard, was rammed and shot at while in international waters about 70-80 miles off Gaza by Israeli naval vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Palmor denied there had been any shooting although the two ships made &#8220;physical contact.&#8221; He said no one had been hurt and that the Israeli ship escorted the aid boat back to Cypriot territorial waters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/18380032\/detail.html?rss=atl&amp;psp=news#-\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a radio message, the Israelis accused the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity, its captain said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor called allegations that the vessel was rammed deliberately &#8220;absurd.&#8221; He said the volunteer boat was trying to outmaneuver the Israeli vessel when it was struck.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Dignity was headed to Lebanon after the collision.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The boat was taking on a small amount of water after the collision, its captain said. Palmor said the vessel refused assistance after the incident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the pampered Left, every indignity they suffer is some sort of intentional conspiracy against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was snoozing through a Code Pink protest yesterday, news broke from Little Green Footballs &hellip; <a title=\"Ship of Fools turned back [Jonn]\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6592\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ship of Fools turned back [Jonn]<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-liberals-suck","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}