Re: Cynthia McKinney Refuses To Bow To Israeli Pressure To Self-Incriminate & Thus Validating A Lie
Bible Bob
>In Israel, former US lawmaker remains imprisoned
>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:51:09 GMT
>
>Cynthia McKinney was captured by Israeli forces aboard a
>relief boat en route to Gaza.
>
>Former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney and several other human
>rights activists remain in an Israeli prison after refusing to
>sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating.
>
>In a press release from McKinney's Green Party, she said the
>form states that the their relief boat carrying 21 activists,
>medial supplies, cement, olive trees and children's toys en
>route to Gaza, was violating the Israeli blockade and
>trespassing its territorial waters.
>
>She, however, insists the Spirit of Humanity, the Greek-
>flagged relief boat, was in international waters.
>
>"We were in international waters on a boat delivering
>humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when the Israeli Navy ships
>surrounded us and illegally threatened us, dismantled our
>navigation equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship," she
>said in a statement, adding that they were immediately taken
>into custody."
>
>"Immigration officials in Israel said they did not want to
>keep us, but we remain imprisoned," she said.
>
>On Tuesday, The Israeli Navy detained McKinney and 21 other
>human rights activists on board a relief boat outside Israel's
>territorial waters as they were heading to Gaza on a
>humanitarian mission.
>
>Meanwhile, the 54-year-old former US congresswoman has accused
>Tel Aviv of violating the international law by seizing an aid
>vessel in international waters.
>
>"State Department and White House officials have not effected
>our release or taken a strong public stance to condemn the
>illegal actions of the Israeli Navy of enforcing a blockade of
>humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians of Gaza, a
>blockade that has been condemned by President Obama," McKinney
>said.
>
>Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in
>the Palestinian territories, said Thursday that the seizure of
>the boat was unlawful.
>
>The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned of
>dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying 1.5 million
>Palestinians living in the coastal sliver are 'trapped in
>despair' due to the continuing Israeli blockade on the
>territory.
>
>The humanitarian agency said that 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=99666§ionid=351020202
They ought to put her in prison for a while.
BB