{"id":8644,"date":"2009-06-02T08:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2009-06-02T08:57:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:57:54","slug":"ipa-obama-urged-to-go-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8644","title":{"rendered":"IPA: Obama urged to go to Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Institute for Public Accuracy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/accuracy.org\/newsrelease.php?articleId=2001\">June 2, 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama is scheduled to meet with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and to make a speech in Cairo on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMJAD SHAWA<\/strong><br \/>\nShawa, the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization Network coordinator for Gaza, said today: &#8220;Gaza is still under siege &#8212; there&#8217;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&#8217;s virtually impossible to get goods in or out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pngo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Information<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANN WRIGHT, PAM RASMUSSEN<\/strong><br \/>\nWright and Rasmussen are part of\u00a0 &#8220;a 66-person delegation, including Americans from 18 states&#8221; now in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>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:\u00a0 &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/accuracy.org\/newsrelease.php?articleId=2001\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2fq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}