An 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who gave a wonderful interview for Democracy Now about her planned trip to Gaza as part of the Gaza March had made it known that she is pissed at the way the Egyptian government have been treating her and follow activist who came in support of Gaza. American activist Hedy Epstein and other grandmothers taking part of the Gaza Freedom March have now began a hunger strike in Cairo Today to protest against the government of Egypt’s indifference and refusal to green light their solidarity march to head to Gaza as planned. Ms. Epstein was quoted by AFP saying:
“I’ve never done this before, I don’t know how my body will react, but I’ll do whatever it takes,” as she sat on a chair surrounded by hundreds of protesters outside the United Nations building in Cairo. There is also another protest being staged on the Street of the French Embassy in Cairo by few hundred French citizens who are part of the march.
The Egyptian foreign Ministry through its spokesperson had said they would not allow any of the 1,300 protesters who have come to Egypt from 42 countries to take part in the march to enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, the only entry that bypasses Israel. Not sure why does Egypt insist on giving themselves all bad publicity in the world, by both insulting hundreds of international activists and telling the people of Gaza to simply die quietly. The authorities of Egypt have restored to name calling games, accusing the march and its organizers of using “sick”, “cheap” tactics. But perhaps the biggest insult came to light when the Egyptian government and its newspapers have been labeling the besieged and starved people of Gaza as “drug smugglers”, and “weapon dealers” in an attempt win the support of the Egyptian people.
Turkey another non-Arab actor sent an official on Saturday to try to convince the Egyptian government to to allow Viva Palestina to go through the Red Sea port, but Egypt insisted the convoy can only enter through El-Arish, on its Mediterranean coast. The fun started with the Foreign Ministry claimed that they will never allow the people of Gaza to starve and argued that they in the government have made sure that Gazans get their medications and food. This is a whopper and most people in Egypt are not going to buy that. It’s known that the tunnels–not the Egyptian government bring most of the goods that Gazans use daily.
I want to understand Egypt’s position I honesty want to, but it is hard to see their motive. First, they are mad the the Hamas leadership in Gaza (the botched prisoner swap, and the failed unity agreement), this is something many Palestinians understand. But why punish the people of Gaza and starting a pissing match with activist who only want to support Gaza in their struggle. If Egypt really wanted to punish Hamas Perhaps a better way to punish Hamas, is to ban their leaders from coming in and out of Egypt like a Vegas Casino and not denying the populace of Gaza freedom of movement. If readers comments on Egyptian news websites were an indication of the rage the people of Egypt have over their own governments tactics, the government and its slick spokesperson have not done a good job when lying through their teeth. I How Will Egyptian historians look at this incident and justify it to their coming generations? or do we not care about what our children think about us?
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Maybe the brave and noble and non-sectarian Arab resistance will attack Egyptian security forces, or maybe they will bomb one of the 24 Starbucks in Egypt: http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2009/12/starbucks-i…
The brave mujahideen will soon liberate Falastin, right after they liberate Iraq. I can feel it!
http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2009/12/12-times-as…
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | December 28, 2009, 5:56 pmYour concern troll Arab sock puppet routine is getting old, Eagle. Give it a rest.
Posted by Sean2009 | December 29, 2009, 1:09 amMy concern is for my relatives, imbecile. Half of my relatives still live in the hell hole of the country whose markets and public places have been bombed repeatedly by the 3arab jarab who mass murder Iraqis in order to fight "occupation" and make Sunni slime happy. I will not give it a rest, moron.
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | December 29, 2009, 2:44 amYou're not fooling anyone, Eagle. "Iraqi_Mojo" showed up just as you disappeared, and there's a link to "his" blog on your blog. You have the same writing style as your sock puppet and use the same style of hasbara. Both you and your puppet invariably respond to any mention of crimes by Israel by invoking crimes of Arabs states elsewhere and accusing kbf of being indifferent to them, all in a deliberate attempt to divert attention away from Israel. It's a common and transparent hasbara technique and I can't imagine any Arab who isn't an apologist for Israel feeling any need to employ it.
Your alleged relatives would not be any less dead if killed by an American soldier, but you seem fixated exclusively on Arabs.
How stupid do you think people are?
Posted by Sean2009 | December 29, 2009, 3:14 amDumbass, I continue to write about the injustice in Palestine, despite the stupidities and incredible ignorance and hypocrisy of the 3arab jarab.
For example, Iraqi Mojo wrote not long ago: Israel steals Palestine's water: http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2009/11/israel-stea…
Obama: suffering of Palestinians "intolerable": http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-suffe…
In June I wrote: "The relationship between Iraqi Shia and Palestinians has deteriorated over the last two decades. In 1990 Yasser Arafat expressed his support for Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. After 2003 this relationship deteriorated further, especially after Saddam was hanged. Current relations between the Iraqi Shia and the Palestinians does not change the fact that Palestinians have been wronged for the last 60 years. What happens in Iraq does not change the origin of the Palestine-Israel conflict and it does not justify Israeli expansionism and oppression of the Palestinian people."
http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2009/06/origin-of-p…
You're such a schmuck, Sean.
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | December 29, 2009, 3:25 amWell, it appears that for once, you have actually proven me wrong. Eagle might put up a pro-Arab piece or two for plausible deniability's sake, but he would never link to the "Origins of the Palestinian Conflict" which powerfully refutes most Zionist arguments and is written by anti-Zionist Jews. There is an obvious connection between you guys, though, and you have a similar modus operandi. Maybe just coincidence, maybe not.
But I admit I was wrong and apologize for confusing you with Eagle.
Posted by Sean2009 | December 29, 2009, 4:10 amArabs and Arab Americans have been conflating Palestine with Iraq for a few years now. Americans are not kicking Iraqis out of their homes and annexing Iraqi land and making sure the annexed land maintains a Christian majority. Iraq is not Palestine. Understand the differences. There are many.
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | December 29, 2009, 4:14 amWell, it appears that for once, you have actually proven me wrong.
Sean, you get proven wrong all the time. You're just too dumb and stubborn to notice, usually. I confess to being a bit surprised by your level of stupidity in this particular instance, though, because Mojo is one of the better known Iraqi bloggers and has been for years, and you talk about Iraq all the effing time as if you actually know something about it. And besides that, there's the little issue of you not even bothering to click on his name and check out his blog, or even to do a Google search on him, before you came out with those asinine accusation. How did you manage to get through college? Seriously? Were you on a "special needs" program, or something? You claim to have grown up poor so I doubt you had a rich daddy pulling strings for you like GW did
Posted by programmer craig | December 30, 2009, 2:17 pmblah, blah, blah, blah.
Posted by Sean2009 | December 30, 2009, 2:36 pmGreat rebuttal. Really refuted my main point, which is that you are an imbecile…
Posted by programmer craig | December 30, 2009, 2:38 pm"You're not fooling anyone, Eagle. "Iraqi_Mojo" showed up just as you disappeared"
Mojo has been blogging for years…you should visit his site.
Posted by C.H. | December 29, 2009, 3:38 amOne particularly grotesque hypocrisy of the "resistance" his how they willingly enlist Iran's help in the liberation of Palestine…through Hamas and Hezbollah. Hassan Nasrallah is regarded as an Arab hero, while Nouri Al-Maliki is an "Iranian puppet". In the eyes of the Mujahideen, Iraqis are legitimate targets for suicide bombers but Palestinians aren't. I don't recall any instances of Gaza restaurants being blown up because Hamas is a "puppet government" of Iran. Why do they hate Iraqis so much?
Posted by C.H. | December 29, 2009, 2:01 amThe Arabs are mentally handicapped. They have never really cared about Iraqis.
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | December 29, 2009, 2:47 amMaybe I should not generalize about Arabs, and maybe I should not be so hard on them. After all, they just want to liberate Palestine, and they think all was good in Iraq before 2003, cuz they simply did not understand, and I should not expect them to. I apologize to Arabs who haven't a clue about Iraq. But Sean and Khalid are definitely retarded.
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | December 29, 2009, 3:13 amMuch respect to Hedy Epstein, I had the honor of meeting her a few years back. A truly remarkable woman.
Posted by Um Falastin | December 28, 2009, 7:03 pm"I want to understand Egypt’s position I honesty want to, but it is hard to see their motive."
uhhhhhhhhh … succession is coming now and Mubarak wants to insure his son becomes president so he's groveling to Israel and US …. duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Posted by Ali Amro | December 28, 2009, 11:21 pm"I want to understand Egypt’s position I honesty want to, but it is hard to see their motive."
$4 billion a year from the US to do what Israel demands. Not too hard to understand. It's America's motive in financing this nonsense I'm having a hard time understanding.
Posted by Sean2009 | December 29, 2009, 1:25 amI'm re-posting a comment i made on another thread because i feel it's just as relevant here then anywhere…
/Egypt is a disgrace to the Arab and Muslim world.
Every Egyptian is embarrassed to identify himself as one, to a fellow Arab. Even tough foolish Egyptians secretly think their American Zionist masters will pat them on the head when they try to walk through US Immigration Counter.
Egypt's compliance to Israeli diktats just bolsters anthropologists' claims to the Egyptian national character of cowardice and lily-livered men who can't stand up to their women.
Such embarrassment; and to think that Egyptians were the only army in history to have stopped Genghis Khan's horde. Oh wait a minute… that accolade must go to the Mameluke Slaves. Who were Turks.
The only silver lining to Egyptian manhood, I guess, must go to its formation of the Muslim worlds first and still influential, dynamic Islamic political party, The Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood still calls the shots, in the Middle East. Alas it's own people, the Egyptians, have been its (Egyptian manhood aka. TMB) most brutal opponents./
Posted by OooKhalid | December 29, 2009, 4:19 amA Holocaust survivor protesting against Zionists, the self proclaimed savior of the Jewish people.
Must feel like a slap on the face, for Zionutters (Jewish n Christians).
Posted by OooKhalid | December 29, 2009, 4:28 amVery nice sectarian murder talk by "Mojo". I get it, he hates Shi'is; or Sunni's, I forget which.
Oh yeah, that is a real "solidarity" activist.
If he keeps it up, maybe he can re-start the civil war in Iraq. That should keep his imaginary family REAL safe.
Posted by Lick Your Wounds | December 30, 2009, 1:29 pm"I get it, he hates Shi'is; or Sunni's, I forget which. "
You must be one of the educated non-sectarian Arabs. LOL
Posted by Iraqi_Mojo | January 1, 2010, 6:34 pm