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A handful of pro-Palestinian activists protested outside President-elect Barack Obama's vacation home on Tuesday and urged a new approach to the Middle East.
"We feel there's a great need for change. We need to stop giving Israel a blank check to do what it's doing," said Margaret Brown, a 66-year-old Honolulu resident who held a handmade sign that read "Yes we can change U.S. policy toward Israel and Palestine."
"We just gave them a blank check to oppress the Palestinians, and this is the result," she said.
"Gazans need food, medicine, not war," read one sign carried by an activist to the Obama vacation retreat. "Free Palestine," read another. A third: "No U.S. support for Israel."
Brown said politicians need to speak what they believe, not what is expedient.
"It's political suicide to challenge Israel in this country," she said.

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Barack Obama remained silent over the violence in Gaza as Israel today threatened to continue its attacks for weeks. Instead, the President-elect is continuing his 12-day Christmas holiday in Hawaii and was seen enjoying a round of golf. He joined a group of friends at a private club near his rented, beach-front holiday home yesterday.