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2009-02-19 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by mhw 2009-02-19 07:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Make that three...

Bethlehem Maan Three US members of Congress made a rare visit to the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the first of its kind to Gaza in at least four years.

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry arrived in the coastal enclave shortly after members of Congress Brian Baird of Washington and Keith Ellison.

Listening to Jawn drone on for a couple of hours should really make them want to kill Americans...

Speaking at the rubble of the American International School in Gaza, which was leveled by and Israeli airstrike in January, Kerry said, We have no meetings with anyone from Hamas and we will not change our political program. We are here to take the first hand the facts on the ground.

Kinda like when ya didn't meet with the North Vietnamese in Paris, right, Jawn...

The three visited the Izbet Abed Rabo area, which was devastated by shelling during Israels three-week offensive on the Gaza Strip in December and January. They also held a meeting with UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen Abu Zayed.

Psssst...you guys wanna buy a bag of rice? How about a 500 pound bomb? Get ya a good deal. I know some people...

Ahmad Yousif, a former political advisor to de facto Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh welcomed the visit saying, This visit does not have political dimensions but rather purely humanitarian aiming at checking the disastrous facts caused by the Israeli war on Gaza.

I thought you guy's won?

This visit is similar to previous visits of parliamentarians to the area, he added.

Yousif said that he would not oppose meeting with the Americans, although no meeting is scheduled. We do not mind holding a meeting with him in case he wants to work of communicating the image to America on the vision of the movement [Hamas].

Yeah. "Vision". Democrats love "vision"...

Kerry, a Democrat, was the runner up in the 2004 US presidential election.

Or, as we say in this country, the "loser"...

Ellison is the first Muslim member of the US House of Representatives. He was elected in 2006.

Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney attempted to travel to Gaza by sea in December, but the ship was rammed by an Israeli gunboat and diverted to Lebanon.

Believe me, they did you a favor...

In 2008, former US President Jimmy Carter was denied permission to enter Gaza by the Israeli government. Carter did meet Hamas officials in Syria and Egypt.

...and he'll be ready to jump on a plane whenever you give the word.

Posted by tu3031 2009-02-19 09:50|| 2009-02-19 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 That would be the honourable Representative Ellison (CAIR, MN). I wonder what the FBI knows about him that his voters don't... or perhaps, given who he represents, they don't care.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-02-19 10:09|| 2009-02-19 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 What's the big deal, TW? Ellison's just visiting his constituency.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-02-19 10:13|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-19 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 That would be the honourable Representative Ellison (CAIR, MN).

No, tw. That would be the honourable Representative Haji Ellison (CAIR, MN).

Posted by Seafarious 2009-02-19 10:14|| 2009-02-19 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Corrections accepted with thanks.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-02-19 10:31|| 2009-02-19 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Ellison is, in a sense, doing a Haj because some of his constituents identify him as a Fatah Stooge when they want him to be a Hamas stooge.

Posted by mhw 2009-02-19 10:41|| 2009-02-19 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Wouldn't it be nice if they just stayed there?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-02-19 13:53|| 2009-02-19 13:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry

Yo - Massachusetts, representin'...

Posted by Raj 2009-02-19 15:31|| 2009-02-19 15:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Kerry's going to Gaza, has it ever snowed in Gaza before now?

Posted by Rednek Jim 2009-02-19 20:40|| 2009-02-19 20:40|| Front Page Top

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