On March 31, 2008, Israel began taking down some of the 50 West Bank roadblocks it pledged to remove during Rice's visit. Israel still maintains more than 500 checkpoints and roadblocks, claiming "security" - euphemism for total control of the indigenous people's right to move and export their goods; another reason the Palestinian economy is in ruins.
Senator Obama had the audacity to say, "What this country needs is a President who won't just do what's right when the politics are easy, but will stand up when the politics are hard."
The policies the United States has pursued since the Six Day War have failed to secure Israel, and have been an injustice unto Palestine.
All we the people hear from our politicians is the same failure to lead in the way of equal human rights and international law. All we the people hear is an increasingly fervent repetition of the status quo and bankrupt policies that have brought us to the point in time where 'civilized' white people openly consider unleashing the terror of another nuclear bomb.
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On January 23, 2008, Senator Obama sent a letter to Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, about a proposed Security Council resolution on the situation in Gaza.
Obama focused on condemning Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel, but made no mention of the ongoing Israeli bombardments and raids that have killed hundreds of innocent residents of Gaza, as well as the calculated Israeli policy of denying the necessities of life - food, clean drinking water, medicines, medical care, school supplies, and the energy needed to power sewage treatment plants and hospital operating rooms - to all 1.5 million open air prisoners, of whom more than half are children.
Obama wrote that "Israel is forced to do this." Obama denounced Hamas as a terrorist organization, and ignored its repeated offers of a long-term truce with Israel - offers the Israeli government has repeatedly immediately rejected, although polls show that more than 60 percent of Israel's own population favors negotiations with Hamas.
Not Obama, not McCain and not Clinton have offered even a word of criticism of Israel, or of sympathy for the people of Gaza.
This is not "change we can believe in" or a change that can begin the world again…might this time we see that the world is our country, that all man and woman kind are our sisters and brothers. Might we all do good; be merciful and just, as our religions inform us of. Might our media seek to ask the questions too many of we the people, do not even know to ask. Might our politicians be beholden to we the people and to no other government.
1. http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=855&Itemid=198
2. 4 Corners TV Show: 30 Mar. 2008: A Land Grabbed
http://www.presstv.ir/pop/wmp.aspx?id=49658
3 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9430.shtml
4. IBID
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Senator Obama had the audacity to say, "What this country needs is a President who won't just do what's right when the politics are easy, but will stand up when the politics are hard."
The policies the United States has pursued since the Six Day War have failed to secure Israel, and have been an injustice unto Palestine.
All we the people hear from our politicians is the same failure to lead in the way of equal human rights and international law. All we the people hear is an increasingly fervent repetition of the status quo and bankrupt policies that have brought us to the point in time where 'civilized' white people openly consider unleashing the terror of another nuclear bomb.
On January 23, 2008, Senator Obama sent a letter to Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, about a proposed Security Council resolution on the situation in Gaza.
Obama focused on condemning Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel, but made no mention of the ongoing Israeli bombardments and raids that have killed hundreds of innocent residents of Gaza, as well as the calculated Israeli policy of denying the necessities of life - food, clean drinking water, medicines, medical care, school supplies, and the energy needed to power sewage treatment plants and hospital operating rooms - to all 1.5 million open air prisoners, of whom more than half are children.
Obama wrote that "Israel is forced to do this." Obama denounced Hamas as a terrorist organization, and ignored its repeated offers of a long-term truce with Israel - offers the Israeli government has repeatedly immediately rejected, although polls show that more than 60 percent of Israel's own population favors negotiations with Hamas.
Not Obama, not McCain and not Clinton have offered even a word of criticism of Israel, or of sympathy for the people of Gaza.
This is not "change we can believe in" or a change that can begin the world again…might this time we see that the world is our country, that all man and woman kind are our sisters and brothers. Might we all do good; be merciful and just, as our religions inform us of. Might our media seek to ask the questions too many of we the people, do not even know to ask. Might our politicians be beholden to we the people and to no other government.
1. http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=855&Itemid=198
2. 4 Corners TV Show: 30 Mar. 2008: A Land Grabbed
http://www.presstv.ir/pop/wmp.aspx?id=49658
3 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9430.shtml
4. IBID
5. IBID
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