Comic Alexei Sayle lends backing to celebrity protests against Israeli attacks
Jan 3 2009
Liverpool Daily Post
LIVERPOOL-BORN comedian and writer Alexei Sayle joined a line-up of celebrities calling on American president-elect Barack Obama to speak up against the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Last night Israel allowed hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports to leave besieged Gaza.
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But it kept up attacks for a sixth day, and ex-model Bianca Jagger, singer Annie Lennox and the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, joined the campaign to end the violence.
Ms Jagger called to president-elect Obama to speak up, and said: "We must appeal to him to ask for the immediate cessation of the bombardment of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip."
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