CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, who wrote "The Color Purple," is traveling to Gaza along with other female activists to highlight the devastation of the Israeli offensive on Gaza's residents.Aw gee, what a shame she doesn't have the courage to voice her concerns about how Muslims in Gaza or elsewhere raise their children for jihad. No need to waste time on this naive anti-warrist's works then.
"I feel that what is happening in the Middle East is very important because the situation is so volatile," said Walker, speaking by telephone Saturday from the Rafah border crossing as her group waited to travel into Gaza. "I love people, and I love children and I feel that the Palestinian child is just as precious as the African-American child, as the Jewish child."
Walker is part of a group of about 60 women going to Gaza to deliver aid and meet with NGOs and residents. The trip, organized by the U.S. anti-war group Code Pink, is intended to push both Israel and Egypt to open the borders into Gaza, said Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink who helped organize the trip.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Alice Walker walks herself right off my list of recommended authors
Actually, I can't say I've ever read any of her books, but those with common sense, her current intentions should raise some eyebrows. From the AP/LeHigh Valley Express-Times:
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What they are seeing is the devastation of arab rejectionism, a rejectionism born in the quran attitudes towards, not Zionism, but JEWS.
Alice Walker has a Jewish, African-American child. In that sense, she is connected more closely to the Jews than to the Palestinians.
If there is any sense in the phrase, "speak globally, act locally", than she is doing what she can, to try and convince her people to change behavior she finds repellent.
I am a liberal, but often find myself being called a troll at liberal blogs, when I point out examples of hypocrisy engaged in by other liberals. I am told I should not speak out against liberals but against conservatives.
But I am more motivated and able to change the bad behaviors of my fellow liberals than I am to change the bad behaviors of conservatives.
I hope Ms. Walker's efforts are productive.
Google Alice Walker's daughter and you will be appalled at how badly this young woman was raised. There is no love lost between the two.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032902320.html
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