‘Hello! I am here, living in the Gaza Strip, in a miserable situation, and we need peace. We are a group [working to make] the US people elect Senator Obama. We think he is a man of peace, so please kindly support us by electing him.’
So goes the phone script. Thousands of Americans may have been a little surprised over the past few months to have received a call from one of 24 enthusiastic young Gazans who have decided to give Barack Obama a helping hand in his election campaign. The Media Line reports that the group has been meeting each night to phone random telephone numbers in the United States. Even though 19 out of every 20 calls end with the receiver hanging up on them, the volunteers say that they have completed up to 6,000 successful calls.
