<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Yeah, and if we're all Irish on St Pat's day to boost booze sales and green presence in pubs and parades, then we're sure as hell all Irish now...<div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 6/3/10, Robert Naiman <i><naiman.uiuc@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Halliday Urges Irish-Americans to Defend the Rachel Corrie<br>To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8:45 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Former UN Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday said it was<br>imperative that the Obama administration supported Ireland's call on<br>the Israeli authorities to ensure safe passage for the Irish-flagged<br>Rachel Corrie to
carry humanitarian aid to Gaza, the Irish Times<br>reports. Speaking by satellite phone from on board the Rachel Corrie,<br>Halliday called on Irish-Americans to lobby the Obama Administration:<br>"We also feel there is a role for the Irish diaspora here, in the US<br>and elsewhere to lobby politicians over this continued illegal<br>blockade of Gaza, which is causing such hardship to the Palestinian<br>people."<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/halliday-urges-irish-amer_b_598924.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/halliday-urges-irish-amer_b_598924.html</a><br><br><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/3/872541/-Halliday-Urges-Irish-Americans-to-Defend-the-Rachel-Corrie" target="_blank">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/3/872541/-Halliday-Urges-Irish-Americans-to-Defend-the-Rachel-Corrie</a><br><br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/599"
target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/599</a><br><br><br>--<br>Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br>www.justforeignpolicy.org<br><a ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" href="/mc/compose?to=naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><br>Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern" target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern</a><br><br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="/mc/compose?to=Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss"
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