Fresh out of Washington, where she famously slugged a cop who had the audacity to ask for ID, former (oh, is it so good to see former in front of her title) Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is back in the news today, after performing yet another wacked out stunt.

But, before that, she evidently took a detour and visited Cuba and saw its “President” Castro.  How did this woman ever get elected in the first place?

Now, she’s in the news again. McKinney relief boat hit by Israeli ship.

OK, first, I must say it.  A round of applause to Israel for hitting her boat.  They are obviously just doing the jobs that Americans are refusing to do.

Seems as though this hopelessly misguided soul was on a boat conducting a “relief mission” to Gaza as part of a “Free Gaza” Californian (of course) group. 

A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington described the incident as an accidental “collision” after the aid vessel drew near to an Israeli military craft and was warned away.

“The boat came very close, we called the ship to basically to turn around, we informed the ship that they wouldn’t be allowed to enter Gaza,” said the embassy spokesman, Jonathan Peled. “The ship wasn’t rammed, that definitely wasn’t the idea.”

The Israeli naval craft did, however, prevent the aid ship from landing in Gaza, he said in a telephone interview. “We see all these ships as pure propaganda, they have journalists on them and all kinds of other people who are coming basically to provoke.”

He said the intention was not to deny humanitarian aid to Gaza. In fact, he said, aid arrived there on Tuesday from Turkey, Qatar and Jordan.

“We receive all aid and let it enter Gaza properly so that we can make sure that it’s only humanitarian aid and they’re not smuggling people and weapons and explosives into Gaza,” Peled said.

He said Israeli military craft offered assistance to the aid vessel before escorting it toward Lebanese waters.

“They said that the didn’t need any assistance,” he said. “It passed peacefully, apparently no damage, no wounded, no nothing, but a slight collision.”

She is, of course, outraged.  And has a different story for what happened.  Frankly, I don’t care which story is more correct.  She entered a war zone.  She can’t expect her safety to be guaranteed when she enters a war zone with a boat full of supplies and possible ammo for Gaza.  Israel was within its rights to try to stop the boat.

Michelle Malkin has more.

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