Pro-Palestinian Protesters At Obama's Hawaii House

[Purveyor]

By Ross Colvin

KAILUA, Hawaii, Dec 30 (Reuters) - A small group of placard-waving pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's vacation retreat in Hawaii on Tuesday to protest against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

Obama has made no public comment on the strikes, which Israel launched on Saturday. Aides have repeatedly said he is monitoring the situation and continues to receive intelligence briefings but that there is only one U.S. president at a time.

But with outgoing Republican President George W. Bush already viewed as a lame-duck, many people, particularly in the Middle East, are looking past him to Obama, who is due to be sworn in on Jan. 20, for leadership.

Obama did speak out after the attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai in November in which gunmen killed nearly 180 people, condemning them as acts of terrorism.

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Obama did not acknowledge the protesters when his motorcade drove past to take him to play basketball at his old school. He stared straight ahead sipping from a bottle of water.

"The president-elect values citizen participation in our nation's foreign policy, but there is one president at a time, and we intend to respect that," said Brooke Anderson, his chief national security spokesperson.

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REUTERS: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30356444.htm

[firedupdem]

1. oh boy. n/t

[thunder rising]

2. Funny the title uses "Protesters" and the article uses "demonstrators". MSM stirs trouble.

[brentspeak]

3. How about the protesters protest in front of Hamas HQ?

You know, like maybe asking Hamas to quit hurling rockets into Israel?

[Sultana]

4. the same can be said for Israel to stop killing civilians

[msfiddlestix]

8. Demonstrators were Protesting US Foreign Policy

demanding a change in our policy wrt P/I.

[rvablue]

9. Were Arab-Israelis allowed to protest outside of the Knesset about the blockade

of food, medecine and fuel going to innocent civilians.

Highly doubt it.

[Sultana]

5. pssst, he isn't president yet

:crazy:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Good for them.

[FrenchieCat]

7. They forgot to mention that there were only 5 demonstrators.

Gee......they also forgot to count the thousands who demonstrated against the war.
So I guess they are being consistent! :eyes:

[Uzybone]

10. Man, I never saw 5 protesters get more air time than the ones at Obamas vacation home

The MSM never covered the anti-war protests that much. CNN damn near gave them an entire segment.