Monday, December 28, 2009

Immunity to Facts


Yaacov Lozowick
Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations
27 December 09


Well below the radar of most media, there's a fascinating drama happening in Egypt. Yesterday the BBC did take note, in a telegraphic tone:

Egypt has rejected a request to allow activists to march across the border into the Gaza Strip to mark the anniversary of last year's conflict.

The Egyptian foreign ministry said the march could not be allowed because of the "sensitive situation" in Gaza.

Over 1,000 activists from 42 countries had signed-up to join "the Gaza freedom march" planned for next week.

Egypt warned that anyone attempting the crossing from Egypt would be "dealt with by the law".


Mondoweiss have been on the story for a while, and Phil Weiss has apparently gone to Egypt, perhaps to convince the Egyptians it's bad PR for them to be on Israel's side, I don't know. Recently they posted a letter from the organizers of the march to President Mubarak, which contains a number of fine demonstrations of pure Orwellian Newspeak:

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1 comment:

  1. Its funny to see the moonbat Left beseech the Egyptian dictatorship to allow it to go on with an anti-Israel demonstration. The Mubarak regime is not friendly towards Israel but for its own reasons has no interest in strengthening the Gaza wing of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

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