The daughter seems stupid, but doesn't look particularly guilty....
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.
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.
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