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Spiteful Mubarak succeeds only in creating a PR disaster for Egypt and himself
Stuart Littlewood
January 7, 2010
It has been a bad week for the Forces of Darkness that prey on the Holy Land.
Hosni
Mubarak, President of Egypt, has plumbed new depths and caused deep
offence with his shameful bullying of the Viva Palestina convoy bound
for Gaza, which had driven for weeks and thousands of miles from many
countries to bring medical aid and other relief to women and children
cruelly shut off from the world and under endless lethal bombardment by
Israel.
The dirty tricks resorted to by Mubarak and his
lieutenants, which repeatedly delayed the convoy when only a few hours
away from its destination, forced it to retrace its steps and take a
dangerous and unnecessary sea voyage menaced by Israeli gunboats,
heaped massive extra costs on the mercy mission then confronted it with
2,000 riot police, put him and his rotten regime beyond the pale. In
other words, far outside acceptable standards of decency.
Mubarak’s
misdeeds have shamed the Egyptian people and indeed all Arabs, and will
be written indelibly into the history of the Middle East. Who would
have thought that a man of his experience would visibly stoop so low as
to invite wholesale ridicule and disgust?
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Faced with
all those obstacles the splendid men and women with Viva Palestina rose
to the challenge in fine style and gave real meaning to the anthem "We
Shall Overcome".
They overcame all right. They overcame all the
mean-minded chicanery the loathsome vultures of the Middle East could
throw at them.
And with their generous hearts, human decency and
sense of honour, the Viva Palestina team delivered a master-class in
true grit and cross-cultural togetherness in the teeth of unjustified
hostility.
Impressive too was the
leader George Galloway. The British MP, considered a renegade in
Westminster, once again showed himself to be head and shoulders above
the pygmies of the British government when it comes to 'doing the right
thing’.
They all received sterling help en route from many authorities that co-operated
in exemplary fashion. Egypt please take notes.
Where
does Mubarak go from here? He could begin by asking forgiveness not
only from the humanitarian convoy and the suffering children they were
striving to reach, but from the world community whose eyes have been
opened by this epic, blockade-busting expedition and who now view him
and his kind with contempt.
And by asking forgiveness from God.
The
crowning glory of Mubarak’s evil intent is the construction of the iron
wall along the Gaza border, which threatens the Palestinians’ very
survival and has been dubbed the 'Death Wall’. It would go a long way
to restoring Egypt’s credibility and his own standing if he were to do
a spectacular U-turn and take it down… such a move being a sign of
strength not weakness.
Stuart Littlewood
7 January 2010
Stuart
Littlewood is author of the book Radio Free Palestine, which tells the
plight of the Palestinians under occupation. For further information
please visit www.radiofreepalestine.co.uk
:: Article nr. 61949 sent on 08-jan-2010 06:42 ECT
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