Our 'friends' the Egyptians
As an American citizen, I am free to enter and leave the United States as I please and to travel to most countries around the world (North Korea, Cuba and a few others being exceptions). As an Israeli citizen, I am free to enter and leave Israel as I please, and to travel to most countries around the world (Iran, Syria and some other Arab countries being exceptions). But Egyptians are not free to enter and leave as they please and are not free to travel to all countries with which they are nominally at 'peace.' For example, Egyptians are not free to travel to Israel.Today, Egypt forbade 2,000 Coptic and Greek Orthodox Christians in Egypt from making a pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in east Jerusalem this coming Easter. Egyptian travel agents have informed their Israeli counterparts that the authorities in Cairo have decided not to allow this year’s pilgrimage.
And the reason given was.... NOT due to the uproar in Egypt surrounding the Israeli documentary film "Shaked Spirit" (which alleges that an army unit commanded by former Chief of Staff and Defense Minister and current MK Binyamin (Fuad) Ben Eliezer killed 250 unarmed POW's in the 1967 war), but rather to the arrest of EGYPTIAN Mohamed Essam Ghoneim el-Attar, who is currently standing trial on trumped up charges of allegedly spying for the Mossad.
But let's keep signing meaningless pieces of paper with the Arabs and giving them large chunks of our heart and soul in return....
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:13 PM
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