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

[Ed Mandel]

I think the American media blackout of this story is not necessarily due to any purposeful censorship. It might be due to the American media's cutback of foreign reporting staff over the years from budget cuts leaving noone available to cover that story. I'm not certain how the majority of Americans are getting their foreign news report--either accidently looking at a BBC website,drudgereport or using their powers of telepathy. --ED

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> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:26:54 +0200
> From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com
> To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Egypt Blocks Americans from Gaza March,	Stops Aid Convoy
> 
> [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
> 
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
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