"Israel is behind the refusal – what other excuse could there be? "
How bout that you're a filthy treasonous gasbag who deals in the lowest of human emotions.
Posted on 12/31/2009 1:28:58 PM PST by patriotgal1787
“We hope the Egyptians get so annoyed they just want to get rid of us.” Jodie Evans, Cairo, December 29, 2009
Top President Barack Obama funder Jodie Evans and her terrorist sympathizing group Code Pink have provoked a violent crisis in Egypt over an attempt to deliver ‘humanitarian aid’ to Hamas-run Gaza to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s response to repeated provocations by Hamas terrorists. Evans was joined in Cairo by Obama pals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn, both former terrorists with the Weather Underground.
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Jodie Evans appealed to Egypt’s First Lady Suzanne Mubarak for help after the Egyptian government refused to allow the nearly 1400 leftist activists from a reported forty-three nations gathered in Cairo to cross into Gaza through Egyptian border crossings to join the so-called Gaza Freedom March scheduled for December 31st in Gaza. 1400 was the number of Palestinians reported killed in Israel’s defensive operations in Gaza last December.
Jodie Evans blamed the Israeli government for Egypt’s refusal.
It’s obvious that the only reason for it is to make Israel happy. Israel is behind the refusal – what other excuse could there be?
After first accepting the government’s offer to allow 100 select activists and aid to cross that came through the intercession of Mrs. Mubarak, the activists rejected the offer and have engaged in protests that have brought a strong reaction from the government.
After much internal struggle, a group of about eighty activists crossed into Gaza on Wednesday. They met up with Palestinian activists at the Israeli border where they were addressed via the cellphone of an Israeli Knesset Member, Talab El-Sana, by Hamas ‘Prime Minister’ Ismail Haniyeh.
Haniyeh told the crowd, “We have managed to overcome the occupation plans and we will surely meet at the al-Aqsa Mosque and in Jerusalem, which will remain Arab and Islamic.”
As noted by the blog Mystical Politics, there was no mention by Haniyeh of Code Pink’s delivery of humanitarian aid or the plight of the people in Gaza.
When Code Pink last visited Hamas in June, they were given a letter addressed to President Obama from Hamas.
A press release issued by “Gaza Freedom March” claimed the activists left behind in Cairo were being attacked by the Egyptian government.
Members of the Gaza Freedom March are being forcibly detained in hotels around town (Lotus, Liala) as well as violently forced into pens in Tahir Square by Egyptian police and additional security forces. Reports of police brutality are flooding a delegate legal hotline faster than the legal support team can answer the calls. The reports span from women being kicked, beaten to the ground and dragged into pens, at least one confirmed account of broken ribs, and many left bloody.
The press release went on to describe the activists’ purpose for being in Egypt.
The marchers had planned to enter Gaza through Egypt’s Rafah Crossing on Dec. 27, then to join with an estimated 50,000 Palestinian residents to march to Erez Crossing into Israel to peacefully demand an end to the siege. However, the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced just days before the hundreds of delegates began arriving in Cairo that the march would not be allowed to go forward. It cited ongoing tensions at the border. When marchers demonstrated against the decision, the government cracked down, often using heavily armed riot police to encircle and intimidate the nonviolent marchers.
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Code Pink’s initial acceptance of Egypt’s offer exacerbated divisions among the leftists.
On first arriving we had a legal ban placed on us. Europeans have organised on a basis where we do not take any notice of the law. Codepink have used those activities to put pressure on the Egyptian authorities.
The French for instance – around 300 – mobilised on the basis of resistance. The Spanish tried to get to al Arish in different ways. Similar actions were taken by others. Some of the activities in Cairo have been extremely high risk – for instance at the Journalist’s Syndicate. It was like World War III: riot police everywhere. Meetings have been bust up. Proprietors threatened. Hotel arrests. People being followed everywhere and so on and so on. Whilst the Codepink people have simply put pressure on the authorities to get all the right permission to press on in a tiny group.
The French who have had it very rough have not even had a visit from the Codepink. They have been demonised as though they were the extremists, disrupting things for everyone. I have spent a lot of time with the French and they are simply determined to expose the Egyptian role in this whole business.
What is going on right now is meetings, lots of wind and blaming the Codepink for a lot of the duplicity and betrayal. They have had hell of a job to get enough people to go with them and the Egyptians have exploited their compliance something terrible. So now the media here is full of this story about the moderate, reasonable Americans who are working in complete harmony with the Egyptians whilst the rest of us are extremist anarchists who disobey law as a matter of routine.
Musician Roger Waters issued a video statement urging Barack Obama to intervene:
So I hope Barack Obama will respond to this, and I hope he makes a statement about it. And I hope he will come out and support this march. And I hope he will come out and say, “Listen, this siege of this country is illegal, and we must support—we must support the law. We must support the rights that human beings have under the law.”
Speaking from Cairo, Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada, spoke with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now December 30th about the pressure activists are putting on their home nations’ embassies in Cairo
[J]ust a short while ago, I came from the encampment at the French embassy, where hundreds of French citizens and others are still camped out on the sidewalk in front of the French embassy, absolutely surrounded by phalanxes of riot police in Cairo.
Yesterday we were at the US embassy for many hours, surrounded by police. But I think really the responsibility in that situation has to lie with the US embassy and the United States, which absolutely stonewalled and was unresponsive to the demands of its citizens to speak to their representatives. And when we finally did get a meeting, it really became very clear, from the US representative that we met, the senior political officer at the US embassy in Cairo, Greg Legrefo, that the United States was not going to do anything to support our effort to break the siege, that the policies of the United States remain unchanged.
And Mr. Legrefo did confirm in that meeting that the United States Army Corps of Engineers is providing technical assistance to Egypt to build an underground barrier along the border with Gaza to prevent the digging of tunnels, which have become the last lifeline for people of Gaza in circumventing the siege.
Author Philip Weiss wrote of witnessing Ayers and Dohrn getting caught up in the debate over whether to accept Egypt’s offer for a small number of activists entry to Gaza.
The people staying on the buses leaned out the doors to say that the Gazans wanted them to come so as to to join their march to the Israeli border on the 31st. But they wavered. Indeed, you saw some of the most resolute activists on the planet—Bernardine Dohrn, the law professor and former member of the Weather Underground; Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada; and Donna Mulhearn, an Australian woman who was a human shield during the beginning of he Iraq war, board the bus and get it off it, and then board it again and get off it, and on and on.
“Members of the Gaza Freedom March are being forcibly detained in hotels around town (Lotus, Liala) as well as violently forced into pens in Tahir Square by Egyptian police”
Wish we could do that them here...
Medea was right there with her pal, Jodie.
From the article:
“Meanwhile, Medea Benjamin, Kit Kiteredge, and Ali Abunimah were meeting with an embassy official and stressing that we intended to go to Gaza on a non-violent, humanitarian mission,...”
Why doesn’t someone put these attention-seeking pathological agitators out of their misery, and really detain them!!!!
or stick them in gaza forever
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the commie rats!
I’ve seen some nasty parts of Egypt. That would be a hell of place to get locked up or “disappear” from.
Isn’t humanitarian aid supposed to go to humans?
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“BERNARDINE DORHN =
The Most Dangerous Woman in America”
(Per then FBI Director J. EDGAR HOOVER)
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BILL AYERS =
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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For the Enemy is now within,
...and always has been.
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Please let them go and then have them stay. They will fit really nicely with the Pals, Hamas...
You won't catch me mourning.
"Israel is behind the refusal – what other excuse could there be? "
How bout that you're a filthy treasonous gasbag who deals in the lowest of human emotions.
Code Stink is at it again...
Israel: KILL THESE TRAITORS AND JIHADISTS. THEY HAVE MUCH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS AND NEED TO BE PUNISHED BEFORE ANY MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE MURDERED.
JODIE EVANS: Married a rich old fart and got tons of his money to fund communist causes including Code Pink and Global Exchange (the Castro-loving front for Evans and Medea Benjamin and other reds).
Medea Benjamin: another pint-sized red with friends in the White House. Best friend of Castro and Chavez and AYERS.
They didn’t chose the name and color PINK for nothing.
I thought the most dangerous woman in America was Mother Jones. Googling it, I see the sobriquet has been applied to Jane Addams and Emma Goldman, as well.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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“Bill Ayers & B. Dohrn?
Why aren’t these known terrorists and cop killers behind bars?”
Better yet why are they not on the watch list and the no fly list?
Indeed.
They are self-admitted, proud and unrepentant terrorists. Why do they even have passports?
I'll bet you dollars to donuts they don't have near the probing and prodding this white haired ole great granny does when going through airport screening - the funniest part is how thoroughly they feel and squeeze and and poke my hair bun (I have long hair and wear it up.) Really ridiculous.
And last time, without thinking, I wore jeans. The rivets, of course, set them off. They turned down the waist and went inch by inch with their fingers, around and around again, my whole waist. Obviously, they don't mind looking like absolute loons.
I think, henceforth, I shall wear a Burka.
But to get back to these miscreants - why should they expect Egypt to just 'obey' their demands and be complicit in creating an international incident?
Egypt! Do the world a favor. Throw them all in jail. Throw away the key. Lose all records of their existence.
If we had the right people in DC, their passports would be frozen "in situ" and they would not be allowed back in the states.
B-B-But I thought the Lyin’ King didn’t even KNOW any of these people at all, at all!
Grrrrr.
at the very least, every one of these miscreants should have their passports lifted as soon as they return to the states.
Why should they be free to roam the world creating violence and international incidents that impact the US?
at the very least, I hope Egypt puts them on a “do not enter” list.
Couple this with the actions the obummer regime just took to give military arms, support and praise to the Palestinians and we have some very dangerous developments brewing - well, new ones on top of the rest.
time to keep our heads low and powder dry?
After seeing the apathetic nonresponse to their disrespectful and anti-American antics here in the US...this just brought a smile to my face.
I just showed it to my wife and we both went: "Awwwwwwwww."
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