Photo Blog by Maggie Osama
Pro-Palestinian activists turned the 100 meters long and three meters high wall surrounding Israel's embassy in Cairo into a site of creative protest. The wall was erected by the Egyptian army last Saturday. The wall replaced an iron fence smashed by protesters last month. The military junta claimed that it was set up to protect public property and not the embassy in particular.
Activists sprayed the wall with pro-Palestine, anti-SCAF and anti-Zionist messages such as "No to reconciliation", " We will not forget Deir Yassin", "No to Israel", "Bethlehem," and finally "the Liberation of Palestine starts with the liberation of Egypt", amid shouts of encouragement by passers-by and cars' drivers. Some of them decided to participate in the event.
After several hours, some army officers and military police showed up demanding that activists & others stop drawing and leave. The military accused protestors of distorting the wall's appearance. "It is a shame to draw over the Egyptian flag the symbol of the country!" they told protestors. Military officers and activists discussed and argued about the action for half an hour until the activists decided to leave.
Pro-Palestinian activists turned the 100 meters long and three meters high wall surrounding Israel's embassy in Cairo into a site of creative protest. The wall was erected by the Egyptian army last Saturday. The wall replaced an iron fence smashed by protesters last month. The military junta claimed that it was set up to protect public property and not the embassy in particular.
Activists sprayed the wall with pro-Palestine, anti-SCAF and anti-Zionist messages such as "No to reconciliation", " We will not forget Deir Yassin", "No to Israel", "Bethlehem," and finally "the Liberation of Palestine starts with the liberation of Egypt", amid shouts of encouragement by passers-by and cars' drivers. Some of them decided to participate in the event.
After several hours, some army officers and military police showed up demanding that activists & others stop drawing and leave. The military accused protestors of distorting the wall's appearance. "It is a shame to draw over the Egyptian flag the symbol of the country!" they told protestors. Military officers and activists discussed and argued about the action for half an hour until the activists decided to leave.
Egypt above all
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Palestine
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No to reconciliation
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Deir Yassin
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Bethlehem
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Sabra and Shatilla
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"the Liberation of Palestine starts with the liberation of Egypt",
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No to Israel
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"... There are those, notably in Israel, who will no doubt regret that it has come to this: Israeli diplomats being protected from an angry Egyptian population that is now as anti-Israeli as anytime since the two countries were at war. They should face the reality: this anger does just stem from the shootings, it also comes the fury at their own government's inaction (or connivence) over the Gaza war, the Lebanon war, the ever-expanding settlements in the last three decades..."
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'Wall to Wall to ...Wall' to protect Israel!
"... There are those, notably in Israel, who will no doubt regret that it has come to this: Israeli diplomats being protected from an angry Egyptian population that is now as anti-Israeli as anytime since the two countries were at war. They should face the reality: this anger does just stem from the shootings, it also comes the fury at their own government's inaction (or connivence) over the Gaza war, the Lebanon war, the ever-expanding settlements in the last three decades..."
Uprooted Palestinian
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