[Peace-discuss] Under International Pressure, Egypt Yields Ground to Gaza Freedom March

[Robert Naiman]

Cairo - Twelve hours before this writing, it appeared that 50,000
Palestinians in Gaza planning to march to the Erez border crossing
with Israel on Thursday in protest of the continuing blockade on Gaza
might not be accompanied by any of the 1400 internationals who had
come to Egypt planning to join the Gaza Freedom March.

But on Tuesday Egypt agreed to let 100 of the 1400 marchers depart for
Gaza Wednesday morning. This came as just the story of the Egyptian
government crackdown on largely Western peace activists was starting
to spill from the Arab media and European media into the US press.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/under-international-press_b_406630.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/29/191822/80

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/442

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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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