Ali Abunimah: Inheriting Bush's blinkers over Gaza

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Fri Jan 2, 2009 7:34 AM EST

Article Source: Guardian Unlimited

politics, barack-obama, israel, middle-east, palestine, gaza, palestinian-authority, cynthia-mckinney, silence

Obama has maintained his silence. "There is only one president at a time," his spokesmen tell the media. This convenient excuse has not applied, say, to Obama's detailed interventions on the economy, or his condemnation of the "coordinated attacks on innocent civilians" in Mumbai in November.

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