Carter speaks to Hamas
Former Knesset Member Uri Avnery, activist of Gush Shalom (The Israeli Peace Bloc), congratulates Jimmy Carter for his wise and courageous decision to meet in Damascus with Haled Mash’al and other Hamas leaders and talk with them on the ways to promote peace in our region. Simultaneously, Avnery sent letters to PM Olmert as well as to Foreign Minister Livny and Defence Minister Barak – calling upon them to terminate the orchestrated campaign against Carter and make use of the former US President's position and prestige in order to end the suffering and bloodshed among both peoples, as well as achieve at last an exchange of prisoners which would restore to their homes and families the captured Israeli soldier Gil’ead Shalit as well as a significant number of Palestinian prisoners.
Source: Gush Shalom.
posted by Iqbal Khaldun @ 8:08 AM
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This is off topic, but I live in Austin, Tx, and have just received word that Riad Hamdan of the PCWF was found dead in Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin yesterday. No details are yet available on how he died or how his body came to be in the lake.
I only found out the horrible news today. Although I did not know him well I knew him through his work and dedication to the Palestinian struggle. His death has really shocked all of us, and I feel for his family. However this happened there is no doubt in my mind that brother Riad is another casualty of Israel's ethnic cleansing.
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