Thursday, January 15, 2009

Restaurant in Dar es Salaam

Everytime I catch a glimpse of the news here in Tanzania it is reporting on the war in Gaza. I'm not sure if it is because of the large Muslim population or because it is an objective, uninvolved country, but the sympathy for Palestine is clear. I can't help but wonder how the U.S. media is portraying this fiasco. According to the Al Jazeera news that I am watching, the death toll is over 1,000 people in Gaza and 13 people in Israel. This is a massacre. One third of these were just children. Bolivia and Venezuela have cut diplomatic ties with Israel. How long with the U.S. stand by and let this happen? Will any of our politicians apologize for their blind and unfaltering support of an oppressive nation? Will this conflict ever end?

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