Hello,
We are back in Cairo and under heavy guard. Our bus dropped us last night from the point where we started and the cops coaches asked us to return to our respective hotels soon descended. From our side we have taken advantage of this downtime to restore us (excellent fish) near the hotel and send out our daily.
The next day at breakfast tables of information rustle of the night the campers from the embassy spent their second night on the sidewalk framed by a double cordon of police, 500 U.S. attempted a sit-in outside a building UN Netanyahu arrives in Cairo on an official visit and different manifestations of the Egyptian opposition are planned, it is about to join but the Egyptian organizations are reluctant to welcome us into their ranks ...
we let the rumors and leave on foot to join our group at the second hotel (the joker of the elevator). Around 11, an SMS informs us that the meeting was delayed until 14:30.
This leaves us 2 hours to visit the Egyptian Museum before which we stand.
In the crowded bus and the crowd of tourists, we surf between cars to cross streets that converge on Tahrir Square when a man approaches us.
He spotted our French accent and drowns in a few words from which emerges logorrhea his stay in Grasse to form in perfumes, art family, the marriage of his daughter the next day which we are invited, and the Egyptian hospitality that makes us come into his store of memories and in the perfume of his mother. We come away after having dropped a few hundred pounds. Got to run local business ...
The visit is fast, sarcophagi statues, we retain the right eye and noble, the simple dignity and strength of Khafre seated in majesty enveloped the nape of the wings of Horus .
In the hotel room became a meeting room, the atmosphere is concentrated, or even serious. It became clear to all that will not enter Gaza. If this dream was cherished by many, we knew it would face difficulties, but perhaps not as quickly. Now the possibilities for action from Cairo are nil or insignificant. The options available to us are all unsatisfactory: go home without glory, without being able to remain in Cairo to come together, trying to reach El Arish by other means ...
In the group, a young lawyer of human Man recalls the objectives of the international market and the geopolitical context:
Firstly we are in a foreign country and the attitudes of donors Lesson of Western democracy are often viewed as neo-colonialism.
Then it does not describe the Egyptian government as responsible of the blockade (what would tend to do encircled the embassy) but Israel is causing the problem and that would be too happy get rid of the problem on its Arab neighbor, while continuing to pull the strings.
Finally, we must guard against the outbreak of the movement that we face and the many organizations and nationalities favors. Communication is key in this business is why we must maintain the pressure.
To our friends stayed in France, we ask to sign and sign the petition online at:
http://www.urgence-gaza.net/content/petitionGaza
In parallel, continue to call your representatives, mayors, representatives and personalities ... and see the media who follow us: France 3, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, MBC, RFI (interview Florent), the Associated Press ...
soon, Ali
Patrick and Patrice
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