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Alice Walker: Why I'm sailing to Gaza
CNN ^ | 6-21-11 | Alice Walker

Posted on 06/21/2011 6:21:55 PM PDT by SJackson

Editor's note: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker will join an international flotilla of boats sailing to Gaza to challenge Israel's blockade of the territory. Here, Walker, best known for her 1983 novel "The Color Purple," explains why she will be taking part.

Why am I going on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza? I ask myself this, even though the answer is: What else would I do? I am in my sixty-seventh year, having lived already a long and fruitful life, one with which I am content.

It seems to me that during this period of eldering it is good to reap the harvest of one's understanding of what is important, and to share this, especially with the young. How are they to learn, otherwise?

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1 posted on 06/21/2011 6:21:57 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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To support the little palestinians learning to kill big and little Jews.

2 posted on 06/21/2011 6:23:08 PM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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To: SJackson
Dear Israel,

Please sink these boats.

3 posted on 06/21/2011 6:25:06 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: SJackson
Alice Walker: Why I'm sailing to Gaza

Uh, because you are an idiot?

4 posted on 06/21/2011 6:25:38 PM PDT by doc1019 (You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.)
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To: All

67 and still stupid...


5 posted on 06/21/2011 6:26:05 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: SJackson

Her books suck. An affirmative action “author”.


6 posted on 06/21/2011 6:26:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
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To: SJackson
Maybe the IDF will create some new artificial reefs.

Ok, I can wish, can't I?

5.56mm

7 posted on 06/21/2011 6:26:42 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: SJackson
Pulitzer Prize Affirmative Action-winning author Alice Walker...

CORRECTED!

9 posted on 06/21/2011 6:27:15 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: SJackson
Torpedos running!

They won't be missed.

10 posted on 06/21/2011 6:27:57 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: SJackson

A fashionable liberal who just can’t bring herself to believe that the Muslims of Gaza do what they do out of a centuries-old narrative of hate, and that modern Israel is trying to seal it off as humanely as possible for such an implacable enemy. If Gazans wanted to leave this “hell hole” en masse for some more accommodating Islamic region of the world, Israel would bid them well and supply them with everything needed for the trip. But, not even their Islamic brethren want them.


11 posted on 06/21/2011 6:28:44 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m having another dream about the IDF and this “flotilla” ...


12 posted on 06/21/2011 6:29:13 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Quien vive? JESUS! Y a su nombre? GLORIA!)
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To: pnh102

If there is any justice in this world, she will go down with the ship.


13 posted on 06/21/2011 6:29:36 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: SJackson
“During this period of eldering...” = I getting early Alzheimer's behavior patterns.
14 posted on 06/21/2011 6:31:16 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles, Kill the EPA!!!)
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To: Venturer

Alice Walker was so horrified that her daughter
would do so backward and un-PC a thing as
to have a child of her own, that she
thenceforth refused to speak with her daughter,
or to see her (new) granddaughter.

‘nough said.


15 posted on 06/21/2011 6:32:21 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Maverick68

Wishes to go out with a bang? May her wishes come true.


16 posted on 06/21/2011 6:32:38 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (VOTE out the RATS! Go Sarah!)
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To: SJackson

Because like Leftists the world over, she hates Jews because they’re capitalists.


17 posted on 06/21/2011 6:34:13 PM PDT by MNnice (Showing fresh signs of liberalitis, the strain of the orbital muscles due to excessive eye rolling)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“during this period of eldering”

Still can’t write in correct English.

Why is it that liberals love to turn nouns into verbs; “parenting, dialoguing, birthing, eldering,”, etc?

Flake.


18 posted on 06/21/2011 6:34:21 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
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To: elcid1970

No, she’s flaking.


19 posted on 06/21/2011 6:35:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: SJackson
"Alice Walker: Why I'm sailing to Gaza"

You hate Jews?

And want to help find a final soultion?

20 posted on 06/21/2011 6:36:10 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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