(pic: members of the Asia Aid Convoy arrive in Gaza in January this year - why no Egyptian convoy allowed?)
The Egyptian military has made all the right noises with regards Gaza, such as announcing its intention to permanently reopening the Rafah crossing, but its inaction in that regard is disappointing. The limits of the regime's solidarity is shown today in their banning of the convoy from going to Gaza. It will will be the Egyptian revolutionaries that will have to force the pace. From Egypt's former Mubarak mouthpiece, Ahram online:As planned, hundreds gathered on Saturday in Tahrir Square with the aim of heading to the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah. However, organisers say, the ruling military council ordered tourism offices not to send the buses rented as transport for the convoy as it set a ban on all journeys to the border.
Starting 9am, several hundred stood in Tahrir Square waving Palestinian and Egyptian flags, hoping to march towards Gaza to stage a sit-in on Sunday, 15 May, which marks the Palestinian Nakba Day, or day of catastrophe, in reference to the founding of Israel in May 1948. The convoy was not able to leave Cairo. more
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