[Peace-discuss] Ralph Nader on Obama & Israel

[Jenifer Cartwright]

  Well Ralph, we're all hoping Obama'll do as you say if/when he's elected. (I have a long long list of things I'm hoping he'll do better on when it's "safe" for him to do so). But he's not gonna get elected by running on that particular platform (as well you should know), so that's why he's keeping quiet on the issue, discretion being the better part of valor. ("Liberal evangelist"... excellent!)
   --Jenifer

"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
  "...Senator Obama is a person of substance. He's also the first liberal 
evangelist in a long time. He's run a brilliant tactical campaign. But his 
better instincts and his knowledge have been censored by himself. And I give 
you the example, the Palestinian-Israeli issue, which is a real off the table 
issue for the candidates. So don't touch that, even though it's central to our 
security and to the situation in the Middle East. He was pro-Palestinian when 
he was in Illinois before he ran for the state Senate. Now he's supporting the 
Israeli destruction of the tiny section called Gaza with a million and a half 
people. He doesn't have any sympathy for a civilian death ratio of about 
300-to-1; 300 Palestinians to one Israeli. He's not taking a leadership 
position in supporting the Israeli peace movement, which represents former 
Cabinet ministers, people in the Knesset, former generals, former security 
officials, in addition to mayors and leading intellectuals. One would think he 
would at least say, 'Let's have a hearing for the Israeli peace movement in the 
Congress,' so we don't just have a monotone support of the Israeli government's 
attitude toward the Palestinians and their illegal occupation of Palestine."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23319215/
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