Seven Italian activists have been repatriated by Egypt and 36 others released after Fermi in Cairo. They tried to join the Global March to Gaza to ask for the opening of the Rafah pass. The Egyptian government, between international pressures and diplomatic fears, has decided to expel Western activists to avoid tensions.
In this chaos, seven Italian activists were also repatriated by Egypt and 36 others were released after being stopped in Cairo with strong ways, as seen by many online videos. Many of them wanted to join the #globalMarctogaza, an initiative in coordination with the Sumud terrestrial caravan and the mission of the Madleen ship. These activists aim to obtain the opening of the Rafah pass, at the border between Egypt and Israel, through negotiations with the Egyptian authorities, involving NGOs, diplomats and humanitarian institutions. Two Turinese students said: “They told us that the march is not authorized but we are free to shoot in Cairo.”
The Holden school, founded by the writer Alessandro Bariccoexpressed solidarity with the two boys who are part of the group that occupied in Turin with curtains and barriers Piazza Castello and Piazza San Carlo renamed “Piazza Palestina”. They probably thought they were going to Egypt and being able to do, perhaps near Rafah, the one they did in Turin, but what in Italy – in the grip, according to them, to a political repression of a fascist nature – is allowed to do, in the Democrat Egypt is not allowed. An activist and journalist, two days ago, speaking from a bus from Cairo, said in a video: «It was a difficult night. All Italians have been stopped, deprived of the documents and expelled “and added -and here he caught the sign -:” The western westerners are repatriating to avoid accidents “.
Now, how the organizers and activists of the Global March to Gaza could think That Egypt could allow them to meet to try to put pressure from there and get the green light to continue the journey to the Rafah pass? This was explained by the journalist who cited above with a few words. The Egyptian government fears negative consequences from a diplomatic point of view. To Sisi For some time he has been trying to satisfy everyone: Israel, the United States, and also his fellow citizens in favor of the Palestinian cause. It is evident that, by confining with Israel, he fights on two fronts, Egypt certainly does not want to take a position by promoting the entry into Israel of Pro Palestine activists. This also understands a child: the countries of the area tend to keep away from an in flame area, also because the conflict with Iran, as the same said Netanyahuis not a military operation but a war.
With all due respect to all the demonstrators who beat the law (and not fucking as often happened in Italy), this story reminds us of the two activist girls, Greta Ramelli And Vanessa MarzulloItalian volunteers kidnapped to Aleppo in the north of Syria (where a complicated and bloody civil war had been underway for more than three years). They were reported in Italy on the night between 31 July and 1st August 2014, after being freed in circumstances never completely clarified. Well, Vanessa stated that he would not return to Syria for the moment because the situation over there, as he had realized, was unsustainable. With all the respect for the good intentions of the two twenties, it was not necessary to go to Syria to make it. It was enough to watch television, listen to the radio or read some newspaper.
It seems to me that the situation in Egypt is not dissimilar, as for the perception of reality. Who can think today to bring a contribution (keeping, for heaven’s sake, a certain degree of understanding of good intentions) to the solution of the problem of Gaza trying to go from Egypt? Those who do not know that international graduates engaged for an attempt to find roads, at least lightening the conflicts in progress, struggle to also deal with ensuring the freedom and life of activists who go to the land of To Sisi Thinking of making an effective contribution to the cause of Gaza? Everyone has the freedom to demonstrate in favor of those who consider the oppressed against the oppressor, but realism cannot give way to an evident and ineffective unit, if not harmful, to the cause they would like to defend.
