British MP George Galloway arrested
then deported from Egypt after leaving Gaza

Seven other Viva Palestina volunteers threaten with arrest

by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak (at right) with former Israeli prime minister and war criminal Ehud Olmert.

Los Angeles, Alta California - January 8, 2010 - (ACN) President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has reached a new low. After ordering a brutal bloody assault by 2,000 riot policemen on the Viva Palestina humanitarian aid convoy in the port of Al Arish which injured 50 volunteers, 7 seriously, he has now ordered his secret henchmen from the Al-Mukhabarat Al-'Ammah to clamp down on the Viva Palestina volunteers and its leaders as they exit Gaza through Egypt. The Viva Palestina team consists of 550 members from 17 different countries. The humanitarian team delivered tons of much needed medical supplies to the besieged people of Palestine after overcoming a series of obstacles place by the Egyptian government.

Today 25 undercover agents from the Mukhabarat arrested the Member of the British Parliament from Glasgow, England, and principal leader of Viva Palestina,as he left the Rafah Gate into Egypt. He was accosted and forced into a van which then proceeded towards Cairo along with a convoy of other Egyptian security vehicles. In Cairo he was loaded on a plane to London and he was declared a "Persona-Non-Grata" by the Mubarak regime.

In addition, Mubarak has ordered the arrest of seven other Viva Palestina volunteers as they go through the Rafah Gate. The Egyptian regime has charged the seven humanitarian volunteers with inciting a riot in Al Arish even though it was the Mukhabarat who first started throwing rocks and stones at the Viva Palestina members while they were trapped inside the fenced compound surrounding the Al Arish port.

George Galloway taking a much deserved rest at the Al Arish port. MP Galloway is according to Stuart Littlewood, "head and shoulders above the pygmies of the British government when it comes to 'doing the right thing'."

The dictator Hosni Mubarak, on orders from Israel and the US, employed a series of dirty tactics in an attempt to sabotage the aid convoy and break the will of the volunteers. Mubarak refused to allow the convoy vehicles to cross the Red Sea into Egypt from Aqaba, Jordan which was only a few hours from the Rafah Gate. The convoy was forced to retrace its route all the way to the Mediterranean Sea and take an expensive ferry to Al Arish. The convoy lost five days in the detour and undertook massive extra costs. There were promises made to Viva Palestina by the Egyptian government that it would fully cooperate in Al Arish but instead the convoy was ambushed by 2,0000 riot policemen.

Hosni Mubarak is now being heavily criticized by the worldwide media. Journalist Stuart Littlewood of England said, "Mubarak's misdeeds have shamed the Egyptian people and indeed all Arabs, and will be written indelibly into the history of the Middle East." Another British journalist utilized more graphic descriptions of Mubarak. This journalist described Mubarak as a mere "Al-Shawarby Street Rent Boy." There is a street in Cairo, similar to Santa Monica Boulevard near West Hollywood, where, according to the journalist, "men are prepared to do whatever it takes to please." They are called "rent boys" in Egypt. Hosni Mubarak receives about 2 billion dollars per year from Washington. The British journalist goes on to say that "Obama is Mubarak's pimp."

It does appear that Hosni Mubarak is dancing to a USA/Israel tune. He is presently constructing a steel wall along the Gaza/Egyptian border that might mean the death of even more Palestinians through starvation and for the lack of medical resources. The besieged Palestinians are presently surviving by bringing in food and other critical supplies through tunnels they dig under the present fence. The Mubarak steel wall is designed to stop the supply tunnels and has been called the “Death Wall”. MP George Galloway calls it "The Wall of Shame."

On arrival at Heathrow airport, in London, George Galloway said: "It's always been a badge of honour to be deported by a tin-pot dictator and that's what happened this morning."

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Report on the July, 2009 Viva Palestina USA aid mission