Institute for Public Accuracy
June 2, 2009
Obama is scheduled to meet with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and to make a speech in Cairo on Thursday.
AMJAD SHAWA
Shawa, the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization Network coordinator for Gaza, said today: “Gaza is still under siege — there’s been no real movement from the U.S. to pressure Israel to allow the people in Gaza to reconstruct after the bombing campaign of a few months ago. It’s virtually impossible to get goods in or out.”
ANN WRIGHT, PAM RASMUSSEN
Wright and Rasmussen are part of “a 66-person delegation, including Americans from 18 states” now in Gaza.
Col. Wright is co-leader of the delegation. She is a retired U.S. Army colonel and a former U.S. diplomat who resigned in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war. Wright said today: “If President Obama can, at the last minute, add a visit to Saudi Arabia to have a private dinner with the King, then he certainly can go to Gaza.”