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Egypt is ending the Gaza Blockade: The Spirit of Rachel Corrie is back in Egyptian territorial waters, its passengers and crew safe.

Monday, May 23, 2011 20:54
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UPDATE, Monday  23 May, at 13.30pm EDT,  20.30pm local time


The Spirit of Rachel Corrie is back in Egyptian territorial waters. The crew and passengers are safe. The Malaysian Embassy in Cairo has advised that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted permission to the ship to berth in the port of Al Arish tomorrow May 24th and unload its cargo. 

This decision by Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Al Arabi, which remains to be confirmed, is of fundamental importance. 

Mr. Al Arabi had indicated almost month ago his resolve to open the border at Rafah and end the Gaza blockade. 

UPDATE Monday 23 May At 8.33am EDT (14.33pm local time) 

The Spirit of Rachel Corrie lifted anchor and started sailing towards Gaza.

UPDATE: 9:53pm EDT, Egypt time 3:53pm  

"The Egyptian Navy is forcing us out of their territorial waters and has asked us to go to international waters. One Egyptian patrol boat is coming very fast from behind with a gun pointing at us." Everyone is calm and steady. We are okay." 

From our latest communication with the ship, it appears that the Egyptian Navy is

collaborating with the Israelis with a view to endangering the security of the ship.

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  • We will all know when Egypt realy has a democracy and thats when Egypt stops helping the zionist.

    Maybe the aid cargo contains weapons like 200 nukes and 5000 tanks just to level the playing field.

    200 Nukes to protext 15m jewish people might sound a lot but remember we are talking about gods people here and its about time the USA took them back else don’t get upset when you are attacked in responce to USrael firing off one of these nukes.

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