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	<title>Comments on: Petition to Barack Obama on the issue of Palestine</title>
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		<title>By: Robin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alice Walker, Afro-American author (The Color Purple) and feminist, who was married (divorced) to Jewish civil rights attorney, Mel Levanthal, and close friend to Howard Zinn, has written an open letter to her "sisters" in support of Obama
http://www.theroot.com/id/45469

She too states there are things she disagrees with with Obama:

"True to my inner Goddess of the Three Directions however, this does not mean I agree with everything Obama stands for. We differ on important points probably because I am older than he is, I am a woman and person of three colors, (African, Native American, European), I was born and raised in the American South, and when I look at the earth's people, after sixty-four years of life, there is not one person I wish to see suffer, no matter what they have done to me or to anyone else; though I understand quite well the place of suffering, often, in human growth.

I want a grown-up attitude toward Cuba, for instance, a country and a people I love; I want an end to the embargo that has harmed my friends and their children, children who, when I visit Cuba, trustingly turn their faces up for me to kiss. I agree with a teacher of mine, Howard Zinn, that war is as objectionable as cannibalism and slavery; it is beyond obsolete as a means of improving life.   I want an end to the on-going war immediately and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and to drive themselves out of Iraq. 

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behavior towards the Palestinians, and I want the people of the United States to cease acting like they don't understand what is going on.  All colonization, all occupation, all repression basically looks the same, whoever is doing it.  Here our heads cannot remain stuck in the sand; our future depends of our ability to study, to learn, to understand what is in the records and what is before our eyes.  But most of all I want someone with the self-confidence to talk to anyone, "enemy" or "friend,"  and this Obama has shown he can do.  It is difficult to understand how one could vote for a person who is afraid to sit and talk to another human being.  When you vote you are making someone a proxy for yourself; they are to speak when, and in places, you cannot.  But if they find talking to someone else, who looks just like them, human, impossible, then what good is your vote?
________________

"He who allows oppression shares the crime." Erasmus.

Hear us Senator Obama, and let your good conscience be your guide. "Si se puede" is for ALL people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alice Walker, Afro-American author (The Color Purple) and feminist, who was married (divorced) to Jewish civil rights attorney, Mel Levanthal, and close friend to Howard Zinn, has written an open letter to her &#8220;sisters&#8221; in support of Obama<br />
<a href="http://www.theroot.com/id/45469" rel="nofollow">http://www.theroot.com/id/45469</a></p>
<p>She too states there are things she disagrees with with Obama:</p>
<p>&#8220;True to my inner Goddess of the Three Directions however, this does not mean I agree with everything Obama stands for. We differ on important points probably because I am older than he is, I am a woman and person of three colors, (African, Native American, European), I was born and raised in the American South, and when I look at the earth&#8217;s people, after sixty-four years of life, there is not one person I wish to see suffer, no matter what they have done to me or to anyone else; though I understand quite well the place of suffering, often, in human growth.</p>
<p>I want a grown-up attitude toward Cuba, for instance, a country and a people I love; I want an end to the embargo that has harmed my friends and their children, children who, when I visit Cuba, trustingly turn their faces up for me to kiss. I agree with a teacher of mine, Howard Zinn, that war is as objectionable as cannibalism and slavery; it is beyond obsolete as a means of improving life.   I want an end to the on-going war immediately and I want the soldiers to be encouraged to destroy their weapons and to drive themselves out of Iraq. </p>
<p>I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behavior towards the Palestinians, and I want the people of the United States to cease acting like they don&#8217;t understand what is going on.  All colonization, all occupation, all repression basically looks the same, whoever is doing it.  Here our heads cannot remain stuck in the sand; our future depends of our ability to study, to learn, to understand what is in the records and what is before our eyes.  But most of all I want someone with the self-confidence to talk to anyone, &#8220;enemy&#8221; or &#8220;friend,&#8221;  and this Obama has shown he can do.  It is difficult to understand how one could vote for a person who is afraid to sit and talk to another human being.  When you vote you are making someone a proxy for yourself; they are to speak when, and in places, you cannot.  But if they find talking to someone else, who looks just like them, human, impossible, then what good is your vote?<br />
________________</p>
<p>&#8220;He who allows oppression shares the crime.&#8221; Erasmus.</p>
<p>Hear us Senator Obama, and let your good conscience be your guide. &#8220;Si se puede&#8221; is for ALL people.</p>
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		<title>By: YallaPalestine.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Petition to Barack Obama on the issue of Palestine &#124; Sabbah's Blog...&lt;/strong&gt;

Dear fellow Americans: Please take 2 minutes to kindly sign this petition (http://tinyurl.com/ytefbp) to Barack Obama on the issue of Palestine....</description>
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<p>Dear fellow Americans: Please take 2 minutes to kindly sign this petition (http://tinyurl.com/ytefbp) to Barack Obama on the issue of Palestine&#8230;.</p>
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