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.
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. ;-)
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.
Correction: Celtic leftists, like Third World leftists, are not hippies but militant jingo nationalists. Remember that to the "oppressed" leftism/socialism represent militant nationalism and patriotism. Only us "oppressors" are supposed to "move beyond the nation-state."
Is she is Irish born just asking Alouette
Who sneak into Gaza it like sneaking into Compton
“The use of Gaelic is a revolutionary Marxist nationalist tactic. All the Irish Communist nationalist groups extol the Gaelic language.”
Kind of like the use of Hebrew is a revolutionary Jewish communist tactic?
All the Jewish Communist nationalist conspiratorial groups extol the Hebrew language. (sarc)
What have you been smoking?
What have you been smoking?
I am sorry if I left the impression that I am inherently opposed to the Gaelic language or its use. I lament the extinction of any language (except maybe Canaanite and `Amaleqite), including those misused and exploited by Communists for the purpose of encouraging whatever nationalisms they are promoting. However, any study of the radical Irish nationalist movement since the dispersal of the Wild Geese will show that they have seized upon Gaelic as a mark of their "revolutionary nationalism." To this day the most radical Irish leftists use Gaelic names and the Gaelic language as an act of revolutionary defiance. Similarly, they argue that Communism is the authentic ancient Celtic way of life so that Communism is in fact a restoration of a long-lost lily-pure Celtic Eden. As notorious Scottish Communist and nationalist John Maclane said, "back to communism and forward to communism!"
And I don't smoke anything, thank you.
Treasa Ní Cheannabháin is an Irish singer and songwriter. She has another daughter, Roisín Elsafty who is also a singer
They are Sean-Nos singers. It’s an old art of traditional Irish singing, in a solo a capella style. Sean-Nos songs can be very ancient and have been handed down through the generations and from district to district.
Ah, yes, that fine old Irish name...
Teresa Canavan to the sasanachs.
She might make a good tread chock for a D9 dozer. Or not.
Tapadh leat.
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