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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: SJackson

a glimpse into the future..

41 posted on 06/21/2011 7:15:25 PM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: MNnice
Because like Leftists the world over, she hates Jews because they’re capitalists.

Whether my co religionists like to deal with it, they and tiny Israel are a boil on the globalists' @$$es.

Israel, on the one hand, stands in the way of the harmony of the one worlders, and also, on the other hand, stands in the way of the one worlders of the jihadists; i.e., the Muslim Caliphate.

One has to deal with the enemy on is facing it today, and while it may have been the far right (or what was imagined to be the far right) in the past, today it is the Left and they have their own anti-Semitic history to draw from:

Leftwing anti-Semitism. Where does it come from?

"The Israelite religion [is] nauseating."

Karl Marx's letter to Arnold Ruge

"What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest."

"What is the wordly cult of the Jew? Haggling. What is his wordly god? Money!..."

"Money is the jealous god of Israel before whom no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of mankind and converts them into commodities...."

"What is contained abstractly in the Jewish religion -- contempt for theory, for art, for history, for man as an end in himself..."

"The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Jewishness."

From Karl Marx's essay on The Jewish question

"...since the Mensheviks were the faction of the Jews and the Bolsheviks that of native Russians, it would be a good thing to have a pogrom in the Party."

Josef Stalin's remarks reproduced from his 1907 underground newspaper

"In the Doctors' plot [Stalin's final purge to kill the three million Jews of Russia] of 1952-1953, a majority of those accused were Jews, but some were not. The Jewish element was publicly emphasized but it was under the guise of a link with "Zionism...."1 (emphasis added)

1. The Great Terror pp 66

"The Jews are descendents of of apes and pigs."

Arab textbooks directed to little children who later mouth these obscenities

Obscene leftwing, anti-Semitic protests. It's no wonder that even far back as the 1960s that a person who witnessed the Nazi era thought the New Left were the Nazis redux

Zombie time anti-Semitism watch

"Anti-Semitism is the Socialism of fools."

August Bebel (not Jewish btw....)

"Anti-Semitism is the intellectualism of stupid people."

Mary McCarthy

42 posted on 06/21/2011 7:25:06 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: SJackson

Look out for those floating bulldozers!


43 posted on 06/21/2011 7:25:23 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: SJackson

Pack your floaties, Alice.


44 posted on 06/21/2011 7:29:24 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Welcome to the USA - where every day is Backwards Day!)
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To: SJackson

Range 1200 yards..load torpedo tubes 1 and 2.

Fire one. Fire 2.


45 posted on 06/21/2011 7:30:12 PM PDT by lwoodham
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Who knows, maybe you can get some in the color purple, haha, get it?

46 posted on 06/21/2011 7:31:27 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Welcome to the USA - where every day is Backwards Day!)
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To: SJackson

Another reason to hope this fleet is blown out of the water.


47 posted on 06/21/2011 7:37:26 PM PDT by Little Ray (Best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: SJackson

“My mother’s feminist principles coloured every aspect of my life. As a little girl, I wasn’t even allowed to play with dolls or stuffed toys in case they brought out a maternal instinct. It was drummed into me that being a mother, raising children and running a home were a form of slavery. Having a career, travelling the world and being independent were what really mattered according to her.

I love my mother very much, but I haven’t seen her or spoken to her since I became pregnant. She has never seen my son - her only grandchild. My crime? Daring to question her ideology.

Well, so be it. My mother may be revered by women around the world - goodness knows, many even have shrines to her. But I honestly believe it’s time to puncture the myth and to reveal what life was really like to grow up as a child of the feminist revolution.”

—Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker

And we should listen to Alice in Blunderland, why?


48 posted on 06/21/2011 7:46:55 PM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: SJackson

Because stupidity should be painful.

What do I win?


49 posted on 06/21/2011 7:51:19 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: SJackson

Walker is a Castro-loving communist and has been for decades. Beware of those promoting her.


50 posted on 06/21/2011 8:02:12 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SJackson

I hope the Israeli Navy blows Alice Walker and her boatload of misfits and Jew-haters to Hell.


51 posted on 06/21/2011 8:14:57 PM PDT by Astronaut
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To: SJackson

Flotilla Of The Stupid.

Disable their propeller, remove the passengers after raining pepper spray and sink the boat using it as part of a military drill.


52 posted on 06/21/2011 9:15:04 PM PDT by eaglestar
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To: SJackson

“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?”

Translation from pompous literary muckety-muck=ese:

So to do all this I’m gonna run an already broken “blockade” that somehow didn’t prevent anyone in Ghaza from going to the fancy hotel there, or swimming in the Olympic-sized pool 20 minutes after eating all the food for sale in the many grocery stores. But dammit, it’s fashionable, and I haven’t felt real self-righteous about anything since the 1960s, so by gum, this is my last fling with moral stupidity, and I’ll share this with the young. How are they to learn, otherwise?


53 posted on 06/22/2011 12:28:29 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: SJackson

Ezra Pound would have gone.


54 posted on 06/22/2011 12:29:18 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: SJackson

“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”?

So just how is this important to you Alice. You think something has been going on that shouldn’t have? How as a clueless cluck are you going to learn the young what you haven’t yet learned.

Sadly this all took place during your lifetime and you chose to remain uneducated until now, and you are not going to receive the facts in company with those who’s situation has been engineered by their own people.

It is their own, who steadfastly refuse to end this charade, who prefer owning the bank account to making the tough decisions and spending the billions of dollars in donations to extend the misery instead of providing humanitarian relief.

Meaning, a fix for what they themselves have wrought through the years independent of anything the nation of Israel has done. The Palestinians are pawns in a ruthless quest to literally exterminate the Jews, and you and others like you are just aiding the cause.


55 posted on 06/22/2011 2:43:55 AM PDT by wita
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To: Our man in washington

I love my mother very much, but I haven’t seen her or spoken to her since I became pregnant. She has never seen my son - her only grandchild. My crime? Daring to question her ideology.

One wonders how such ideology produced a Rebecca in the first place, and in the final analysis, how Alice is going to respond to the same question. It is obvious that somewhere over the rainbow there is a giant disconnect.


56 posted on 06/22/2011 3:00:18 AM PDT by wita
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To: SJackson; tarawa; neverdem; cripplecreek; KC_Lion

It hit me last night that this Sunday is all coordinated:

June 26th...

“June 26Th: Churches Across America Opening to Islam!”
June 2, 2011
http://loganswarning.com/2011/06/02/june-26th-churches-across-america-opening-to-islam/

” FAITH SHARED
Uniting in Prayer and Understanding
Sunday, June 26, 2011
A Project of Interfaith Alliance and Human Rights First”
http://monmouthpresbytery.net/Events.asp?cmd=view&id=1189

“The Final Great Awakening - An Endtime Revival”.
http://greatawakening.blogspot.com/2011/06/shocking-chrislam-apostasy-sweeping.html

Gateway To Divine Mercy; Sun 26th June
http://www.gatewaytodivinemercy.com/

Windows to Islam
http://ibrahimlong.com/2011/05/23/windows-to-islam-a-look-inside-islam-this-june-2011/

“Witness Gaza”
http://witnessgaza.com/about/

Tuesday, May 10, 2011
“Organizers of Gaza flotilla say they will sail in June, more than 1 year after deadly raid”
Washington Post
http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/05/organizers-of-gaza-flotilla-say-they.html

“OBAMA INSPIRED SHIP, Funded By Obama’s Pals, Sets Off to Join Jew-Hating Leftist-Islamist Gaza Flotilla II” Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, June 4, 2011, 9:32 AM
gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/06/obama-inspi...
• Found exclusively on: Bing (cannot find story anymore)

“Code Pink/Audacity of Hope/US Boat to Gaza gathering in Austin TX this Sunday...”
Facebook ‘friend’
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:49:50 PM by tarawa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2738014/posts

June 28th this year is Isra/Mi’raj (The Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey and Ascension) (supposed death/ascension—ordinarily listed as June 8th)
http://islam.about.com/od/otherdays/a/isra-miraj.htm

The Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday Celebration (month)
“The month of Rabi’ al-Awwal (the First Spring Season) of the Islamic Calendar is well known in the entire Muslim world as Shahr al-Mawhid (the Month of Birth) of the Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h. The precise date of his birth is disputed among the historians, but 12 of Rabi’ al-Awwal is acknowledge in Indonesia to be the date and it is officially stated as a national holiday. This year that date matches June 26, 1999.”
By: Dr. Rifyal Ka’bah
http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/Muhammad/Birthday/Birth_Celebration.htm

June 26th Tuesday 1804 Lewis and Clark set out (US)
http://www.infoplease.com/t/hist/lewis-clark-journal/day44.html

“The official Saudi-embassy website reported exactly one year ago, on June 26, 2002, “The delegation of the Muslim World League (MWL) that is on a world tour promoting goodwill arrived in New York yesterday, and visited the Islamic Center there.”
http://www.islamdaily.org/en/wahabism/3195.wahhabism—islam-in-the-us.htm

“Wahhabism & Islam in the U.S.”
Stephen Schwartz
Wed 13 Jul 2005
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the text of testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security on Thursday, June 26, 2003.
http://www.islamdaily.org/en/wahabism/3195.wahhabism—islam-in-the-us.htm


57 posted on 06/22/2011 5:14:29 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Nachum

Also see my previous post.....
I forgot to mention...

“The Charter of the United Nations is the foundational treaty of the international organization called the United Nations.[1] It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, United States, on 26 June 1945, by 50 of the 51 original member countries”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Charter

“The United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - 26 June is held annually on the 26th of June”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_in_Support_of_Victims_of_Torture

“The Western Schism or Papal Schism was a split within the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417. Two men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope.” (”the problem by electing another antipope, Alexander V. He reigned briefly from 26 June 1409, to his death in 1410”)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism


58 posted on 06/22/2011 5:22:21 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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Jun 26, 1948:
“U.S. begins Berlin Airlift”
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-begins-berlin-airlift

Legends and Lore for June Part Two
June 26
“According to ancient Icelandic legend, every year at noon on the date, the tip of the shadow of Mount Scartaris points to the secret entrance of “Centre Earth”, in which dwell giant humanlike creatures and prehistoric monsters.
Salavi, the Spruce Tree Rain God, is honored annually on this day by a Native American corn-ripening ceremony. This day is also sacred to the Corn Mothers and the Kachinis.” (wicca)
http://thebookofshadowsblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/legends-and-lore-for-june-part-two.html


59 posted on 06/22/2011 5:30:22 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

Yippie another executive order. (Shorelines and great lakes.)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2738196/posts


60 posted on 06/22/2011 6:07:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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