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The graph is apparently how
At the bottom, in French: "Sauvons les Palestiniens de la noyade!" - "Let's save the Palestinians from drowning!"
Algerians and Egyptians engaging in minor skirmishes
I tried to explain they were fighting the wrong fight, I did. That
That there were better ways to help Palestinians than yelling in a mic after Friday prayer.
They wouldn’t listen.
I told them that if they really wanted to demonstrate, they should do it in front of the Israeli embassy instead.
One of them muttered “we welcomed you with roses, and in return you burned our flag”.
They just wouldn’t listen!
The Algerians will be demonstrating in front of the Egyptian embassy in
Am considering hosing them down. In this weather, they’d die of pneumonia in 72 hours.
11 comments:
Our governments cannot take their own decisions. Should we sympathize with them? I don't think that the average Egyptian citizen agrees with the blockade of his own gov on Gaza. They should demonstrate against their own Government.
Here in Palestine, a lot of people has already demonstrated by encouraging the Algerian National team when they played against Egypt.
Khaled,
the answer to your question is taking place in Cairo as we speak. The demos in Egypt against the wall we're building, the marches in support of the Gaza Freedom March (from which Egyptians and Palestinians were excluded by order of the Government, as was agreed by the GFM (which is something that Ann Wright, Egypt coordinator of the March, told me on the phone))
But to claim that Egypt wants to drown Gaza with water from the Mediterranean? And to do so on Friday, immediately after the prayer? That's ludicrous.
It's interesting to see that Egypt is now being protested (although, obviously, for the wrong reason.) Have there been previous cases where Egypt is being protested for its role in building the Palestinian wall?
So you don't think that pressuring the Egyptian government by carrying demonstrations here and there would help? What would happen in case this wall was built?
Hamas & the Gazans would probably end up carrying suicide attacks against Egyptian soldiers or firing Qassams towards Egypt???
BTW, This captcha thing is new here isn't it?
What despicable behavior. It makes me absolutely sick to see all the Arabs blaming everything on Egypt. So suddenly Egypt is the Great Satan and the cause of the Palestinian people's plight? Not Israel?
These people should be protesting at the Israeli embassy; the real cause of the blockade.
How pathetic that Palestinians should be blaming Egypt now for all their problems. I don't agree with the wall, and neither do most Egyptians, but for everyone to be putting all the blame on Egypt is disgusting.
Happy 2010 everybody.
It's distressing to see ignorant people destroying the already fragile image of Arab unity for no good reason. I would suggest taking steps on both sides to stress common heritage or something that unites rather than divides. For example, what's about holding a friendly soccer match between the two countries in one of the capitals?
Why is it not OK to blame Egypt but very OK to blame Israel?
Egypt and Israel have the same common interest against the HAMAS government which is exporting terrorism to their countries.
The only sensible solution is to demonstrate against the HAMAS which is the cause of all of this.
John
Vicky -
Well, there is currently a giant mess in Cairo - with the Gaza Freedom March being stopped from going into Gaza. So there have been demos for the past several days, and the interesting part is that there are nearly 1400 foreigners taking part...
But as far as i know, no, this week's the first time people have demonstrated. (then again, news of the wall are only a couple of weeks old..)
Khaled -
The wall will be built. But deeper tunnels will be dug. The only real repercussion will be that the goods coming from those new deeper tunnels will cost more money. They're just increasing the price of goods for the end consumer in Gaza.
(as for the captcha: yes, I added it after several spam messages left on the blog...)
Egyptblogger -
I did suggest they go protest at the Israeli embassy. They didn't like it.
You know, had it come from Palestinians, I would understand. Those were Algerians. Nas 7afya w maskeen microphone. 7aga weskha.
Nobody -
Reading the kind first 2 lines of your note i knew there must be something snarky coming up.
And, yes, good idea. I suggest Cairo stadium.
Anonymous (John) -
It's okay to blame Egypt for its sins. Not for Israel's. And not for a fabricated story of Egypt attempting to drown Gaza in the Mediterranean. How's that?
As for Hamas being the common enemy -- hmm, nope. The enemy of the Palestinian people is Israel, not Hamas.
Nobody -
Reading the kind first 2 lines of your note i knew there must be something snarky coming up.
And, yes, good idea. I suggest Cairo stadium.
Sounds just right. Or you can go for the capital of some friendly and neutral brotherly Arab nation, lets say Khartoum or something.
Egypt Could have built it's own Erez crossing, if it wanted to, and get in provisions into Gaza without compromising security and decapitating the tunnel economy all at once. Israel would bleat about it, but secretly encourage it - since Israel has been trying to "push" Gaza onto Egypt for some time now.
But Egypt, like most Arab regimes and some of the Palestinians themselves, is rather comfortable with Palestinian suffering as long as it serves the goal of Israel bashing (though not too effectively).
Algerians are no different except now they hate Egypt enough (over football, for heaven's sake!) to bash Egypt for it. And you probably dislike them for the same reason (football).
I do pity the Palestinians. With support like this, things do look glum for them in the foreseeable future.
G
hmm soccer hmmm
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