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Posted on 02/06/2008 11:56:57 AM PST by Alouette
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - An Irish woman who crossed a breached border into Gaza with her daughter said Wednesday that border guards were preventing them from returning to Egypt.
Treasa Ni Cheannabhain said she and her daughter, an Egyptian national, entered Gaza on Saturday, more than a week after Hamas militants knocked down the border wall.
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flooded into Egypt, Ni Cheannabhain, 56, said she sneaked into Gaza with her 19-year-old daughter, Naisrin el-Safty, to distribute money to needy Gazans.
Egyptian guards resealed the border Sunday, ending the 12-day breach. Ni Cheannabhain said she had not heard warnings that the crossing would close.
The pair tried to return to Egypt late Tuesday, but were stopped by Egyptian border guards.
"I admitted I entered illegally, but we want to come back in legally," Ni Cheannabhain said in a telephone interview from the border town of Rafah.
Ni Cheannabhain is married to an Egyptian physician.
Ireland's Foreign Ministry is trying to help but only Egypt can authorize the pair's return, a ministry spokesman said.
"The Egyptian authorities apparently are refusing to let her cross back over to Egypt," said the spokesman on customary condition of anonymity.
Words. Just. Fail. Me.
Heh. Keep her in there.
The thing is, she’s still raising the average IQ over there.
And Ireland will ask Israel to help her out and Israel will.
This is a bit off topic, but, what kind of Irish name is that, and how is it she has an Egyptian daughter, complete with wild Egyptian name and “national” status?
Wonder if this family is related to Rachel Corrie? Sounds like kissin’ cousins.
She probably fell for her Egyptian doctor husband when he was in Ireland or the UK, and stupidly followed him back to the sandpit. The daughter’s probably an Egyptian citizen by birth, would be my guess, or perhaps because her father is one (since, after all, women don’t count in Islam).
Although, I’m amused to see that even the Gaza Palestinians apparently have an illegal alien problem (of two whole people) and need a border fence! ARE YOU WATCHING, PRESIDENT BUSH?
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Who sneaks IN to Gaza?
It would be like sneaking into Beirut in 1982.
She’s Irish with a daughter who’s an Egyptian National?
Is this Irish as in ethnicity or Irish as in Nation of Passport?
Stupid is as stupid does. No sympathy here.
Treasa Ni Cheannabhain
The Irish are as bad as American Blacks at picking weird names from their roots to demonstrate their "otherness" from "The Man."
Gaelic?
She's a crazy lefty.
“I see stupid people everywhere”..
.....Words. Just. Fail. Me.....
How about “She’s smarter tham Rachel Corrie”
Note Mr. Chomsky’s name there, too.
carolyn
No she's not, she couldn't even find an IDF bulldozer to stand in front of.
They are in Paradise. Why would they want to leave?
The daughter seems stupid, but doesn't look particularly guilty....
Where do I start? Probably standing in front of a bulldozer interfering with soldiers anti-terrorist mission was her fatal stupid mistake, but there were many others that led her to her early death. She was a rabid America hating leftist from an America hating leftist family. (hence my original comment)
There’s a wealth of stories about her vitriolic stand against America and Israel here in the FreeRepublic archives and available for perusal by using “Google” or any other internet search engine.
Carolyn
possible Darwin nominees in the short term future?
Can’t answer the daughter part, unless the daughter is married, converted and then chnaged her name but the Irish name is Gaelic.
There are a lot of Irish names that use the Gaelic spelling.
Siobhan
Ciarran
Etc.
Got bulldozed. Her fault. OSHA was pissed.
I had thought she was a Christian missionary or something similar.... I doubt she was Christian, or she wouldn’t have been allowed there.
I wish the Corrie family and this one profiled in the article were closer to the Lord. Rachel would probably still be alive and the Irish gals wouldn’t be in the predicament they find themselves in.
I wonder how much money these two intend to distribute to the victims of Gazan missile attacks on Israel. Nah, let’s just pump funds into Gaza so they won’t be moved toward recognizing the utter futility of their continued violence against Israel, and agree to live in peace.
P J O’Rourke, “Holidays in Hell.” Fabulous book, in which he documents his “holiday” in Beirut. Helped prepare me for my short tour in that war zone during the summer of 2006.
I noticed someone from the "Humanists of Greater Sacramento" or some such. Hmmm. It seems that these "freethinking" humanists oppose some religions more than they do others.
But then, the International Left supported Khomeini (mach shemo!) from the beginning.
Ni Cheannabhain roughly translates as “Not the same river” in Gaelic.
These leftists live in their own universe, but occasionally reality intrudes.
Ni Cheannabhain, 56, said she sneaked into Gaza with her 19-year-old daughter, Naisrin el-Safty
Gotta get Safty to safety :o
Hey, give her a break. She’s 19, raised by a aging hippie mom.
It would be like sneaking into Beirut in 1982.
I was thinking about sneaking into Tehran.
For vacation.
Think maybe that's a bad idea? ;-)
My ex-girlfriend told me that Tehran (especially the north side) is a nice city, as long as you have family/friends to guide you around. It more difficult for a foreign woman, however.
They make no bones about having COMMUNIST connections.
More proof about the left.
If it’s a Christian missionary you are thinking of, I bet it’s Corrie ten Boom - author of The Hiding Place. She was Dutch, and incarcerated in one of the worst of the camps because her family hid Jews from the Nazis during WWII.
I've heard the same...I have friends who lived there and in Esfahan as "Bell Helicopter Brats" and I have an Iranian friend whose family escaped in 1978 when he was a teenager.
Who knows? If things keep getting hotter between us and Iran, I may live there at some point. ;-)
Only if you’re a pregnant woman eating a ham sandwich and carrying a stuffed teddy bear named moo-ha-med.
Or a Jew. Either way, you’d better duck. Often.
:)
Many Irish have Irish names, rather than the angelicized versions of those names. The Irish language is still taught in schools; it is the official language, along with English, of Ireland, and is still spoken in several areas of that country.
So your statement is blatantly incorrect.
Exactly. It is an Irish name.
All I can say is: “LMAO”
Well, reviewing the situatoiin, it appears she has chosen to be one of them - too bad.
Ah, yes, that fine old Irish name...
"The Irish are as bad as American Blacks at picking weird names from their roots to demonstrate their "otherness" from "The Man."
Many Irish have Irish names, rather than the angelicized versions of those names. The Irish language is still taught in schools; it is the official language, along with English, of Ireland, and is still spoken in several areas of that country. So your statement is blatantly incorrect.
The use of Gaelic is a revolutionary Marxist nationalist tactic. All the Irish Communist nationalist groups extol the Gaelic language.
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