News quiz: What American politician denounced the ‘unspeakable events in Gaza’?

by on February 13, 2009 9

No politician. A student at University of Rochester, where they organized an occupation. The failure of our leaders to denounce unspeakable things as unspeakable things is the reason this groundswell movement is happening among students and grassroots. These kids also say that the actions in the UK are spreading "like wildfire" in the US, that non-Muslim kids are excited to join demonstrations with Muslims, and that the occupation of Palestine exposes the whole war on terror. (Thanks to John Dickerson)

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  1. Dan Kelly says:
    February 13, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    This is a great time for activism and non-profit stuff, too, because with the economy in the dumps, kids who otherwise wouldn't look to get involved in these endeavors may well decide to, since the usual American way of "get out and make as much money as you can" does not have nearly as many doors open as it used to.

  2. Glenn Condell says:
    February 13, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    'The failure of our leaders to denounce unspeakable things as unspeakable things is the reason this groundswell movement is happening among students and grassroots.'

    Yes, it's the recognition of a contemptible lack of backbone in their representatives, the fact that their country is 'led' by appeasers who by their silence make the US complicit in ethnic cleansing.

  3. chris berel says:
    February 13, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    I believe out leaders denounced the palestinians firing missles into civillian population areas of israel.

    What Hamas is doing is unspeakable.

  4. dance says:
    February 14, 2009 at 12:27 am

    I agree with you Glenn, especially when, in our case, our governments have signed United Nations Resolutions.

  5. cogit8 says:
    February 14, 2009 at 1:39 am

    to Chris Berel's "What Hamas is doing is unspeakable."

    What are you going to call it when a serious rocket (not a bottle-rocket made out of garbage-dump parts) guided by GPS coordinates lands on Tel Aviv?

    I would call it a proportionate response to a similar rocket that landed in Lebanon. In 1982.

  6. chris berel says:
    February 14, 2009 at 7:54 am

    I'll call it the general palestinian suicide pact.

  7. Citizen says:
    February 14, 2009 at 10:17 am

    chris berel needs to take Etiology 101 as soon as his mama will let let him. Same goes for the USA congress–their mama is AIPAC.

    Those crappy Palestinian rockets are the symptom, zionist occupation the root disease.

  8. Sword of Gideonthe point. says:
    February 14, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    I'd like to see a crappy palestinian rocket stuck up your ass

  9. Citizen says:
    February 15, 2009 at 2:51 am

    Go back to your coloring book Soggy–try for once to stay inside the lines.

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