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.
Carolyn
If she gets out, the list of felony charges will be longer than her chances to escape with her daughter's virtue intact. In the least she should loose custody for smuggling her underage daughter into a war zone. Talk about irresponsible. Would it not be just and fitting that if she excapes into Israel, the bus she rides to the airport is blown up with explosives she paid for.
``The use of Gaelic is a revolutionary Marxist nationalist tactic. All the Irish Communist nationalist groups extol the Gaelic language.’’
I’m neither a revolutionary, nor a Marxist. I am a fluent Irish speaker - and proud of my heritage and language.
Treasa Ni Cheannabhain
That’s the gaelic version of the name Theresa Canavan.
Treasa is Irish for Theresa.
Ni means (daughter of)
Cheannabhain is Irish for Canavan.
Literally translated it’s Therea daughter of Canavan.
Good for you. I have no quarrel with you whatsoever or anyone else who wants to perpetuate the Gaelic language for reason of heritage. But if you will read the various posts among wideawake, ArrogantBustard, and myself, you will see that the Irish language has been adopted by Irish Communists, who (unlike American Communists and like Third World non-Western Communists) are fanatical nationalists rather than self-haters.
"The Irish are as bad as American Blacks at picking weird names from their roots to demonstrate their "otherness" from "The Man."
"The Irish are as bad as American Blacks at picking weird names from their roots to demonstrate their "otherness" from "The Man."
::Sigh:: For over a century the Gaelic language has been used by Irish Republicans (who have been leftwing radicals since the French Revolution) as an expression of a "revolutionary identity." All one has to do is study the history of Irish Republicanism or visit the various web sites of the various Irish Republican organizations, which feature a strange mixture of mystical medieval nationalism and radical modern Marxism. Please see the posts among wideawake, ArrogantBustard, and myself earlier in this thread.
This is similar to radicalized American Blacks adopting Arabic or African names. Arabic and Swahili are particularly inappropriate for a community with roots in west Africa.
REALLY???
And as a frequent visitor to that verdant isle I have seen no evidence of Sinn Féin, or any other 'Marxist' org., attempting to co-opt the Irish language.
Sinn Fein and all the radical Irish Republican organizations do indeed use the Gaelic language and Gaelic names for revolutionary nationalist purposes. However, this does not mean that there is anything wrong with the Gaelic language or Gaelic names.
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