{"id":8708,"date":"2009-06-04T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2009-06-04T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T19:33:09","slug":"medea-benjamin-hamas-delivers-peace-letter-to-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8708","title":{"rendered":"Medea Benjamin: Hamas Delivers Peace Letter to President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Medea Benjamin, CommonDreams.org, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2009\/06\/04\">4 June 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hamas government in Gaza reached out to President Obama on the occasion of his visit to the Middle East, announcing that Hamas was willing to talk to all parties \u201con the basis of mutual respect and without preconditions.\u201d CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin, who carried the letter out from Gaza, said that the letter represented a significant development and an effort by Hamas to present a new face to the Western world. \u201cWhile Osama bin Laden used the occasion of President Obama\u2019s visit to deliver a scathing attack, Hamas reached out to a feminist U.S. peace group to deliver a letter to Obama urging dialogue, mutual respect and adherence to international law,\u201d said Medea Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Hamas urged Obama to visit \u201cour ground Zero\u201d in Gaza and bring about a \u201cparadigm shift\u201d in the Israel-Palestine conflict based on enlightened world opinion and international law. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2009\/06\/04\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Medea Benjamin, CommonDreams.org, 4 June 2009 The Hamas government in Gaza reached out to President Obama on the occasion of his visit to the Middle East, announcing that Hamas was willing to talk to all parties \u201con the basis &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8708\">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-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8711,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}