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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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To: YHAOS

If she actually tries to mingle with the Muslim barbarians of Gaza, she’ll likely find they’re murderously angry even at her. She might even lose her head.


21 posted on 06/21/2011 6:38:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: SJackson

What was the name of the girl that had a pancake named after her? I remember she was protesting too.


22 posted on 06/21/2011 6:39:50 PM PDT by dc27
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To: dc27

Rachel Corrie, don’t start up the Freepers


23 posted on 06/21/2011 6:40:25 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

“Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”...NY Times headline day after attempted flotilla landing...


26 posted on 06/21/2011 6:44:57 PM PDT by merryberry (was once a sad berry)
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To: SJackson

Torpedo.


27 posted on 06/21/2011 6:47:37 PM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: SJackson

Bigger question: is she coming back? And if so, why? They can keep her....


28 posted on 06/21/2011 6:47:44 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: SJackson

While she’s there, she can volunteer to throw herself in front of a Caterpillar. Lousy writer, terrible mother, and now terrorist supporter.


29 posted on 06/21/2011 6:54:34 PM PDT by lazypadawan
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To: SJackson

Why doesn’t she set sail for Iran or Saudi Arabia and try that stuff? Or better yet Sudan, Yemen..She’d never see 68. Gaza is just too popular for liberal nuts.


30 posted on 06/21/2011 6:54:46 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: CondorFlight

That’s insanity, and yet she feels so sad for those poor Hamas terrorists.

Oh Well, her daughter is better off.


31 posted on 06/21/2011 6:57:17 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.


32 posted on 06/21/2011 6:58:48 PM PDT by sport
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To: SJackson

Big ol funky lesbian.


33 posted on 06/21/2011 7:01:22 PM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: SJackson

Oh I hope she meets her maker because I’ve got an autographed book of hers that I can cash in on when she expires!


34 posted on 06/21/2011 7:02:05 PM PDT by MissMack99 (BO Stinks!)
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Dear Israel, Please sink these boats.

That would make my decade. Sadly, they won't do it.

35 posted on 06/21/2011 7:03:18 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: SJackson

The Icon warns, but they refuse to listen...

36 posted on 06/21/2011 7:03:50 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: SJackson

What color is Kool Aid? Color Purple.


37 posted on 06/21/2011 7:06:13 PM PDT by max americana (.)
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To: merryberry
“Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”...NY Times headline day after attempted flotilla landing...

No, that would be the headline in the NY Post. The NY Times would read.... "African-American Icon Murdered by Zionists, Sarah Palin and the Racist Tea Party."

38 posted on 06/21/2011 7:07:18 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: CondorFlight

Are you serious; she really did that? I have no use for people like that.


39 posted on 06/21/2011 7:07:52 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SJackson

Heh, heh, on FReepers mentioning Rachel Corrie is like mentioning Niagara Falls.

“Niagara Falls!! Slowly I turned, step by step! Inch by inch.....!”

BTW, that Israeli bulldozer driver had no idea she was there. Sad, but true. But it was fun watching that mad Palistinian get iced at the wheel while trying to commit bulldozer jihad.


40 posted on 06/21/2011 7:14:52 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
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