Marchers To Gaza Gather In Cairo, Egypt Says Few Can Cross Border

nytimes.com:

CAIRO -- More than 1,000 people from around the world were gathered here on Tuesday for a solidarity march into Gaza despite Egypt's insistence that the Gaza border crossing that it controls would remain closed to the vast majority of them.

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Comments

[rissole]

04:16 AM on 01/08/2010

Egypt, Israel's lap dog.

[Kontessa]

02:24 PM on 12/31/2009

I would like very much to join in that protest!

Unfortunately, in America there is a complete and total blackout of news about the Palestinian Holocaust, all news, anything about this ongoing brutal Israeli occupation of Palestinians is subject to complete and total censoring by the American media.
Israels brutal invasions and assaults and stealing of Palestinian lands will never be seen nor heard about from media cuckholds such as CNN.

[juicyju]

04:17 PM on 12/31/2009

WHat America are you living in?

[skialethia]

04:21 PM on 12/31/2009

The one that funds and enables the theft of land of the West Bank to the tune of $3 billion a year.

[juicyju]

08:35 PM on 12/30/2009

I wonder if poor Hedy Epstien realizes that Hamas refuses to teach the Pal children about the holocaust.
Calling the UN's request for such a thing, a War Crime. poor Hedy.

[thrdr]

12:36 AM on 12/31/2009

I think that Hedy Epstien recognizes that Palestinian children in Gaza are the victims of a newer holocaust perpetrated by the Israeli government and the IDF.

[kpjojai]

01:31 AM on 12/31/2009

I agree with thrdr, I think Israel has created a durable ghetto in Gaza similar to the ghetto created during WWII in Kraków. They are not hauling them out, just starving them in place.

[amalfedup]

01:22 AM on 12/31/2009

I think the Palestinian children are too busy living in their own holocaust to worry about what you see as significant at this moment!

[skialethia]

11:48 AM on 12/31/2009

Hedy was humiliated when searched by guards at the Izrli Airport. How sad that Izrl stoops to picking on little old ladies now and 'juicyju" can’t resist ridiculing an old woman with a tragic past.

There is a double-standard when you consider that Isrl banned references to "Nakba" the "Catastrophe", in books destined for Palestinian children and prohibited events marking the massive cle'nsing of Pal stinians from the territories when Isrl was created and millions of Pa stinians became refugees.

[skialethia]

08:00 PM on 12/30/2009

Read what Mr. Neta yahu recently commented on Iran's leadership:

"Iran is silencing all sources of information," said Netanyahu. "Using the power of the Internet and of Twitter against the Iranian regime is a tremendous thing that the United States can do."

Watch how the pot called the kettle black:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpLpOv6MCBQ&feature=related

HAHAHA! Neta yahu feigns concern for Iranians accusing their leadership of controlling the media, but no one does it as well as Iz ray el!

[GZLives]

11:53 PM on 12/30/2009

Are you HIGH??
HAHAHAHA

[baffy]

02:57 PM on 12/31/2009

She picked it up from juicy.

[TheLonelyGod]

02:07 PM on 12/31/2009

Learn how to spell.

It's Israel. And Netanyahu.

[baffy]

02:58 PM on 12/31/2009

israel has a "small" i and natanyahu a "small" n.

[skialethia]

03:20 PM on 12/31/2009

But admit it, you couldn't find anything better to reply? Ouch! The truth hurts! Hahaha!

[guytaur1]

05:17 PM on 12/30/2009

Israel has agreed to a two State solution. That means a Palistinian State complete with an effective military.
So instead of a blockade Israel should be helping to sustain a proper police and military. Like the US has done in Iraq

[CigarGod]

05:56 PM on 12/30/2009

Yikes!
Drones and such?

[baffy]

02:59 PM on 12/31/2009

Link please on israel agreeing to a Palestinian military.

[ZenJu]

03:31 PM on 12/30/2009

How's about these do-gooders getting a grip on reality and working to help the Palestinian Arabs dump their fanatic Hamas "leadership," get rid of the corrupt and duplicitous Fatah, and establish a viable self-government body that will declare peace with and recognition of Israel, disavow violence, accept the best deal they can reasonably expect with Israel, invite international aid, and start actually BUILDING a viable future for their people? Not a future predicated on Jihad, racism and rockets, but one based on creating infrastructure, jobs, education, housing, and prosperity? Now that would be useful, not George Galloway's political grandstanding and these dramatic go-nowhere gestures that do absolutely nothing to help the Arabs.

[CigarGod]

04:07 PM on 12/30/2009

Is calling someone a "do-gooder" supposed to be an insult?

[juicyju]

04:33 PM on 12/31/2009

Sarcasm :)

[baffy]

05:45 PM on 12/31/2009

A backhanded compliment I suppose which is a bit of a change. I was not aware that the hasbara manual encouraged compliments.

[fifteen pounds]

04:48 PM on 12/30/2009

hmm, as opposed to those "do gooders" inside the fortress of the Jewish state? Those doo gooders who kill on a whim, destroy houses in order to build apt. houses for their own occupying forces. Get a clue...sooner or later the Jewish state of Israel is going to have to come to terms with its own muslim and Druze minorities and the surrounding millions of displaced and victimized people who see them as invaders and occupiers...you might not like it, but that is the truth....Israel is the greatest mistake of the 20th Century and it is destroying everything the USA once stood for...When the Egyptian govenment falls after Mubarek passes, things are going to be very uncomfortable in that area for everyone....Blaming Hamas is not going to cut it....blame those really responsible for the catastrophe in creating a Eurpean state in a Muslim area....

[CigarGod]

05:57 PM on 12/30/2009

"...blame those really responsible for the catastrophe in creating a Eurpean state in a Muslim area...."

Valid point.

[Adam Jacobowitz]

07:54 AM on 12/31/2009

"The greatest mistake of the 20th century." Are you serious? Give me a break, have you seen what the Chinese have done to the people of Tibet????And the Tibetans don't have suicide bombers or fire rockets, I think they are more deserving of a state of their own.

I am very thankful that there is an Israel. More rights in that tiny strip of land than anything East of the Jordan River. At least the people can demonstrate against their government and hold rallies without being attacked.

[CigarGod]

03:27 PM on 12/30/2009

Great. Comments held in limbo...again.

[thrdr]

07:27 PM on 12/30/2009

Odd how that happens with comments related to Israel. Sometimes there's a delay with articles on other topics, but not nearly as much as one sees with Israel-related articles, where ever squiggle seems to go through a sifter.

[who38]

05:09 PM on 12/31/2009

Some of mine are there as well along with the replies to some of the comments that I posted. I can read them on my reply board but they don't show up here. Weird!

[LiberalMikey]

03:01 PM on 12/30/2009

When people criticize Israel over the blockade, they always seem to forget Egypt's role. If another Arab country is concerned about security in Gaza, that should be enough evidence for Gaza/Palestinian supporters to say, "Okay, maybe Hamas is bad for Gaza."

I remember one of the most iconic photos of last year's war in Gaza was an image of the aftermath. A Gaza man was selling fruit and vegetables amidst the rubble. He had boxes and boxes of food. If you looked closely at the boxes you could see Hebrew. That means Israel brought in or gave that food to Gaza. What kind of country does that to a people it is supposedly committing genocide against?

Even Jimmy Carter now admits that Palestine is not an apartheid state.

Peace in Palestine and Israel is simple: when Palestinians renounce terror and expel the terrorists in their midst, there will be peace. Even Israel arrests and prosecutes it's own terrorists and extremists. Why can't Palestine do the same?

[whoa20]

03:01 AM on 12/31/2009

because then Palestine would be just another state, not the cause celébre it is for anti-Americans , anti-Semites, and extreme leftists it is around the world.

[who38]

06:53 AM on 12/31/2009

Palestinians cannot do the same because they are busy with everyday life activities which have been disrupted by the siege of Gaza. How can Palestinians renounce Hamas as a terrorist group while ignoring Israel's siege of their country? Hamas won the hearts of the people of Gaza by providing them with aid, schools, hospitals and other social services, all those things that Israel continues to deprive them of in their daily lives. Israel and the world need to look at WHY Hamas is the dominant political force in Gaza. It certainly isn't because they used force to control the population.