[Peace-discuss] Egypt Blocks Americans from Gaza March, Stops Aid Convoy

[Robert Naiman]

[Note that the contact info is given here for NYT, WaPo, NPR...]

Cairo - The government of Egypt is taking a spectacularly hard line
against international solidarity efforts in support of civilians in
Gaza on the one-year anniversary of the Israeli invasion, blocking
peace marchers from the U.S., Canada, and Europe from even approaching
the Egyptian border with Gaza and blocking an aid convoy that has the
support of the Turkish government from entering Egypt at Nuweiba.
[...]
Meanwhile there is largely a U.S. press blackout of these striking
developments. A search of the New York Times and the Washington Post
only turns up a tiny AP story on the websites of the Times and the
Post.

As has frequently been the case, Agence France-Presse [AFP] pays more
attention to these developments. On Monday, AFP reports that Hedy
Epstein and other members of the Gaza Freedom March have begun a
hunger strike to press the Egyptian government to allow them to enter
Gaza...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/egypt-blocks-americans-fr_b_404959.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/28/115052/52

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/441

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