There will be no national mourning for this kid.
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Aid convoy or flying circus?
Al-Youm Al-Sabe3’s website quotes Dr. Arafat Madi, of the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza, saying: “The security authorities in Port Said provided to the European convoy all the facilitation, working on directives from President Mubarak that stem out of his (Mubarak’s) belief in the Palestinian cause and his (yes, Mubarak’s) hard efforts to provide the aid to the people of Gaza.”
Dr. Arafat Madi, are you kidding me?! I strongly urge the European and Western activists to re-think this whole strategy of sending convoys via Egypt in such manner, especially after Galloway’s latest flying circus. The Egyptian regime is happy with this propaganda, handed over for free by the pro-Palestinian Europe-based activists, strengthening Mubarak, providing him with more political capital to continue the siege.
You are not helping this way, I’m sorry. You’ll please the Gazans for one day with your aid which will be brought into the strip amid a state run media extravaganza about “Mubarak’s love for the Palestinians,” but you are providing the political capital for Mubarak to starve them for the rest of the year and to crack down on his pro-Palestine critics domestically. I repeat: You are hurting, if not sabotaging, the efforts of pro-Palestinian activists in Egypt.
Hypocrites!
Give me a break! I can’t take this bullshit anymore!
Mubarak’s grandson died? I’m heartbroken, but to declare three days of mourning at the State TV and private satellite channels, stop broadcasting films and songs, and just keep playing religious tunes and Quran on private and public radio channels?!! That’s just too much! Oh, and not only that, the Muslim Brothers, Ayman Nour and the opposition were also quick to send condolences and express their devastation over hearing the news of the tragic event. Film screenings are canceled and the Cairo Opera House is in “chaos.”
Excuse me, Who is Muhammad Alaa Mubarak? A government official? A national hero? Who is he to put the state on hold for three days?
Why didn’t we have this national mourning when the kids in Duweiqa died? Everyday there are children who die in Gaza because of Mubarak’s insistence on strangling the strip by closing the Rafah crossing, No national mourning for that? What about the Mahalla children who were abused by Mubarak’s police in April 2008- No mourning for them?! What about those children who get whipped by Mubarak’s police in custody, no mourning for them?! No national mourning for the Shaha kid tortured by the police by electric shocks to death?!
Hypocrites!