Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Alice Walker On Obama Re Palestine: 'Our Job is to help him see . . .'
(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AMY GOODMAN: Alice Walker, can you tell us why you chose to go to Gaza at this time?
ALICE WALKER: Well, because I really love people, and I wanted to be here with the women who have lost so much in their lives. They’ve lost their homes. They’ve lost their children. And they just seem to be people I wanted to spend International Women’s Day with, so I made sure to call up Medea and get on the—in the group.
AMY GOODMAN: And where are you now? What are your travel plans in these days?
ALICE WALKER: I think we will be going to visit more refugee camps. We were visiting one this morning. We also went around and saw a lot of the places that had been bombed. This was, of course, very disturbing, and very disturbing to see the look in some of the children’s eyes. I saw two little boys being held by an older brother. He seemed to be about eight years old, and they were like five and four. And they were—they seemed to me to be children who had lost their parents. And I feel that there are a lot of children in that situation, and this is especially difficult to bear.
