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Revealing Silence at the Gaza-Egypt Border
Pajamas Media ^ | January 2 | Richard Landes

Posted on 01/02/2009 12:11:11 PM PST by AJKauf

At about 1:10 on Sunday, December 28, 2008, the BBC anchor Peter Dobbie found out, along with his audience, that there were 40 Egyptian ambulances ready to evacuate wounded, and lorries full of medical goods sent by Qatar to restock Gazan hospitals, waiting at the border crossing in Egypt. (According to another source there were also 50 Egyptian doctors ready to go into the Strip to help.) Since Dobbie and his audience had heard the repeated complaint from the people in Gaza that the hospitals were overwhelmed by the injured and desperately lacking in supplies, one would have expected the border to be full of purposeful activity. Instead, nothing was happening. The Gazan side lay silent.

A real journalist, someone with a smell for revealing anomalies, would have immediately recognized this as an important story to follow up on.

Why does Hamas victimize its own people? And why doesn't the media call them on it?..

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: gaza; humanshields; islam; israel; jihad; muslimcowards

1 posted on 01/02/2009 12:11:11 PM PST by AJKauf
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To: AJKauf

Because the newspapers are in the tank for Liberals and anti-Israel mobs .....


2 posted on 01/02/2009 12:13:09 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: AJKauf

last time they shot at the palestinians at the border now the want to give them medical treatment?


3 posted on 01/02/2009 12:16:03 PM PST by austrian
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To: austrian

Your posts are very interesting to read.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:austrian/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change


4 posted on 01/02/2009 12:24:28 PM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: AJKauf
The Egyptians could be peacemakers — they need only invite the Gaza dwellers to move into Egypt and become citizens there.
But Egypt does not want peace -— at least not on those terms.
5 posted on 01/02/2009 12:25:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: AJKauf

They also fail to report that Gaza’s electricity and water are provided by the “evil” zionists. Why they provide these animals with water and electricity i will never know.


6 posted on 01/02/2009 12:29:06 PM PST by ChinaThreat
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To: AJKauf
...that there were 40 Egyptian ambulances ready to evacuate wounded, and lorries full of medical goods sent by Qatar to restock Gazan hospitals...

Just as a matter of curiosity, but has anyone from neither side physically looked in to these lorries and ambulances?

7 posted on 01/02/2009 12:33:54 PM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: austrian
There's no such thing as a 'palestinian'. Residents of Gaza are Egyptians.

L

8 posted on 01/02/2009 12:35:21 PM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: AJKauf

Now all that is left is for Hamas to let the lorries and ambulances in all together in a long formation and right before they get to the hospital ambush them, kill all doctors and paramedics and of course, who is to blame?... Need I say more?


9 posted on 01/02/2009 12:37:46 PM PST by GauchoUSA
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To: BenLurkin

Egypt WANTS peace, and that is EXACTLY why they don’t want the palestineans and thier leadership in thier country....

They are much better as useful idiot pawns in the game to keep blaming those evil JOOOooos for all thier problems...


10 posted on 01/02/2009 12:45:44 PM PST by tcrlaf (You Voted DEMOCRAT-You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: BenLurkin
The GAZA residents are the descendants of ESAW which lived in the mountains of EDOM.

They have always been a violent people and cause trouble wherever they are.

No one wants to live near them and that includes the Egyptians.

11 posted on 01/02/2009 1:51:23 PM PST by BillT (Socialism = Equal Poverty for ALL)
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