Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Well, the Egyptians have been doing fairly well overall on giving the Gaza marchers a lesson in reality: Egypt cracks down on foreign protesters heading to Gaza Strip. Sadly, they are, apparently, caving slightly by allowing 100 fabulous furry freaks across the border: Egypt to allow 100 protesters into Gaza
Protest leaders stranded in Cairo accepted an Egyptian offer on Tuesday to allow only 100 out of about 1,300 protesters into blockaded Gaza after the activists staged demonstrations and a hunger strike.
The decision split delegates from more than 40 countries who came to Cairo planning to reach the Palestinian enclave, which shares the Rafah border crossing with Egypt...
...Separately, organisers of another aid convoy trying to reach Gaza -- Viva Palestina led by British MP George Galloway -- said it would head to Syria en route for Egypt after being stranded in Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba for five days.
They had planned to drive to Gaza from the Red Sea port of Nuweiba -- the most direct route -- but Egypt insisted the convoy could only enter through El-Arish, on its Mediterranean coast.
Let's face it, the Gaza Freedom Freaks have failed absolutely miserably in scoring a propaganda ax to the head of arch-enemy The Zionist Entity. Instead they've managed to highlight, as no advertising campaign could, that Gaza shares a border with another country, Egypt, and that they are every bit as responsible for that border as Israel is. Smoooooth.
Meanwhile, via Harry's Place, Congressman Brad Sherman has become the latest person (OK, a couple of weeks ago) to call for an investigation of George Galloway's Viva Palestina group: Did Group Raise Funds for Hamas on Campus?
A U.S. congressman is the latest to call for a Justice Department investigation into whether a pro-Palestinian group has been raising money on college campuses for Hamas.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) urged a probe into Viva Palestina USA, a humanitarian aid convoy led by British lawmaker George Galloway that brought medical supplies to Gaza last July.
Both the Zionist Organization of America and the Anti-Defamation League in recent months have urged Holder to investigate reports about the convoy's links to Hamas.
The groups made their requests after Galloway and other Viva Palestina USA members appeared and reportedly raised funds at some college campuses in the spring and summer.
"Clearly, people and organizations in the United States cannot be allowed to solicit funds for foreign terrorist organizations," Sherman wrote in his letter to Holder.
"That such solicitation is occurring during the middle of the day at a public university is truly frightening," he said, referring to the University of California, Irvine.
Could an investigation of Code Pink and the Gaza Freedom Fools be far behind? We can hope (and the question is begged as to whether Eric Holder will even actually investigate Viva Palestina).
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The lovely folks of Code Pink staged a "hunger strike" in front of the Egyptian consulate in San Francisco this week. They wore giant puppet heads and carried bloody dolls, upsetting children in the residential area, and causing at least one mother to call the police.
Interestingly, they were joined by an Israel advocacy group, offering Israeli chocolates and hummus in case any of them felt faint from their fast.