I wonder did Obama and Bono talk about Gaza?

Lay down your guns
All your daughters of Zion
All your Abraham sons
I don’t know if I can make it
I’m not easy on my knees
Here’s my heart and GAZA broke it
We need some release, release, release
We need
Love and peace
Love and peace

In 1985 Bono joined forces with a group of artists concerned about Apartheid in South Africa. Inspired by his meetings with several of them, he wrote “Silver and Gold”

“Yep, silver and gold.
This song was written in a hotel room in New York City.
‘Round about the time a friend or ours, little Steven,
was putting together a record of artists against apartheid.
This is a song written about a man in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg.
A man who’s sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa.
A man who is at the point where he is ready to take up arms
against his oppressor.
A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while
they argue and while they fail to support a man like bishop Tutu
and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa.
Am I buggin’ you?”

In Honor of King and with Hope for Change I wrote:

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.

In “KEEP HOPE ALIVE”

I began with Chapter One:

THE MORNING AFTER APRIL 4, 1968

“Peace for Israel means security, and we stand with all our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”-Martin Luther King

The Rest:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1166&Itemid=214

Will we join the rest of the civilized world?  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/26/090126fa_fact_gawande