Jan 11 2009
Protesting Israel Aggression and Vote for Peace
This was a little-covered protest in Washington, a protest asking President Obama to change U.S. policies towards Gaza and the Israel Palestine conflict.
President Obama needs to realize that people see him as the man who will end unnecessary wars and overt aggression, as we are seeing in the Gaza strip, and we expect him to do that. Peace marches against Israeli violence and American violence are valuable for a lot of reasons. They are a perfect example of Citizen Power! Today, Sunday, there was a small peace protest for Palestinians, outside a Solidarity with Israel event in Minneapolis. I wish I could have been there with them. We are sick of war and that includes this slaughter of Palestinians going on in the Gaza Strip right now.
There is widespread support for Israel’s anti-peace acts of aggression, as seen in my local media, including TV stations. Yes, I know they don’t know their back ends from their brains, but they are still sitting in those anchor chairs telling everyone that my state supports Israel no matter what dumb idiotic thing they do. They did this tonight on their “news” broadcast. They showed a “solidarity” event “packed to standing-room only” and of course the solidarity was with Israel and their “right” to “defend themselves”. Nevermind that this “defend itself” excuse is BS.
