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| Alice "Color Purple" Walker in Gaza in full throat sympathy for Hamas |
| 2009-03-11 |
| Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. author Alice Walker says a catastrophe has befallen the Gaza Strip and that she hopes she and others can make President Barack Obama more aware of it. Hamas showed her the Greenhouses and told her the Zionists destroyed them and Alice believed them Walker, best known for her novel The Color Purple, toured Gaza this week, including an area destroyed in Israel's recent war on the territory's Islamic militant Hamas rulers. Several neighborhoods along Gaza's border with Israel were leveled by the Israel Defense Forces during the three-week offensive, which ended Jan. 18. Israel says Hamas is to blame for the destruction because its fighters used civilians as shields and operated from crowded areas. About 15,000 houses were destroyed or damaged, displacing thousands of Gazans. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #7 I Vote "Just nuts" and if she disappears, good riddance. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-11 12:41 |
| #6 I don't get it. Bush is out of office so she can't blame it on him. Why is she doing this? She gonna write a best seller about the poor Gazans? Or is she just nuts? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-03-11 12:10 |
| #5 Coming up next: Guy from Milli Vannilli that's not dead visits Gaza... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-11 11:51 |
| #4 I suppose it was to dangerous for her to visit Sedrot - what with all the rockets and all. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-03-11 11:17 |
| #3 It is OK for her when Arabs genocide Blacks in Darfur. |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-03-11 11:01 |
| #2 Code Pink, huh? I guess Cindy Sheehan's yesterday's news? Not to say Alice isn't. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-11 10:59 |
| #1 All righty, then - another moonbat writer whose books I shall never open again - right up there with Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood and Antonia Fraser. Pity about Jane, though - MOO was a hoot - but I make the sacrifice cheerfully. BTW, if any Rantburgundians are in the fair city of Austin, Texas this coming Sunday, I will be doing a talk at the old German Free School at 3:00 about the local history that I worked into the Adelsverein Trilogy. Come on down, y'all! They've promised punch and cookies afterwards! |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2009-03-11 10:14 |