The Free Gaza Movement, having repeatedly sailed into Gaza from Cyprus since their first journey in late August, is now preparing to send an emergency shipment to Gaza. The boat will be loaded with three to four tons of urgently needed medical supplies, as well as four physicians, including Dr. Elena Theoharous, a surgeon and Member of Parliament in Cyprus.
Also sailing on board the boat will be Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate, and Sami al-Hajj, an Al Jazeera reporter and former detainee at Guantanamo.
The Free Gaza movement is reporting: “Dr Khaled from the Shifa hospital ICU in Gaza City told us on Saturday that the majority of cases are critical shrapnel wounds from Israeli gunboats and helicopters, with an approximate 80% who will not survive.” [Free Gaza]
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Couldn’t they get someone other than Cynthia McKinney? The woman is a discredit to every cause she latches onto, and her mental stability is tenuous at best.
Posted by Joe | December 28, 2008, 2:07 pmDoes it really matter who does it?
Posted by nadia | December 28, 2008, 4:41 pmWhy don’t you go Joe?
Posted by Mohammad | December 28, 2008, 5:12 pmHonest, frank answer: I’ve got more important things to do?
My professional life is devoted to making the world a better place, in some form or another. The amount of good I’d do on one of those boats isn’t nearly so big as what I can do elsewhere.
(Most of what I do centers around East Asian foreign policy, not the Middle East.)
That said, Random Joe Schmoe is a better choice than Cynthia McKinney. She’s bad news.
Posted by Joe | December 29, 2008, 5:02 amYou’ve also referenced Chris Hitchens in the past as someone with credibility, but that so shouldn’t be the point.
You work for an NGO I take it?
Posted by nadia | December 29, 2008, 6:10 amYou won’t read this piece of news on mainstream US media. It’s too bad because its great stuff.
Posted by Anonymous | December 29, 2008, 9:49 amI voted for the right person on election day. How many others can say this with me?
If you voted for Barack “No Comment” Obama, it doesn’t mean you can’t change your mind about him now. It’s been 7 weeks and he has proven himself enough.
ENOUGH.
For those of you who will soon be ready, we’ll be waiting for you, here on the right side of history.
Posted by QuiQui | December 29, 2008, 3:44 pmCynthia McKinney is one of the most honorable, humane and courageous people we have had in Congress in the last few decades. She is one of the few that has been willing to put her career on the line to speak out against the American government’s lockstep obeisance to Israel’s barbarism. Now she has put her personal safety on the line to speak out again.
I think it is pretty sleazy to question her mental stability when she is one of the few with the decency and humanity to speak out against the US-sponsored atrocities and brutality that the rest of her former colleagues in Congress support with obsequious and disgusting slavishness. If Cynthia McKinney is mentally unbalanced, than that is the kind of mental imbalance I would like to see in the White House, versus the sociopath we are getting rid of or the self-serving narcissist we are getting in his place.
Posted by Sean | December 30, 2008, 9:42 pm