[Peace-discuss] Halliday Urges Irish-Americans to Defend the Rachel Corrie

[Robert Naiman]

Former UN Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday said it was
imperative that the Obama administration supported Ireland's call on
the Israeli authorities to ensure safe passage for the Irish-flagged
Rachel Corrie to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza, the Irish Times
reports. Speaking by satellite phone from on board the Rachel Corrie,
Halliday called on Irish-Americans to lobby the Obama Administration:
"We also feel there is a role for the Irish diaspora here, in the US
and elsewhere to lobby politicians over this continued illegal
blockade of Gaza, which is causing such hardship to the Palestinian
people."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/halliday-urges-irish-amer_b_598924.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/3/872541/-Halliday-Urges-Irish-Americans-to-Defend-the-Rachel-Corrie

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/599


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