‘Permanent’ Despair: Did Egypt Really Open Rafah Crossing?
This will be the author’s last article regarding his trip back to Palestine for the first time in seventeen years. (JB)
For most Palestinians, leaving Gaza through Egypt is as exasperating a process as entering it. Governed by political and cultural sensitivities, most Palestinian officials and public figures refrain from criticizing the way Palestinians are treated at the Rafah border. However, there is really no diplomatic language to describe the relationship between desperate Palestinians – some literally fighting for their lives – and Egyptian officials at the crossing which separates Gaza from Egypt.

CHURCHVILLE, VA — Is it the “Science Story of the Century” or the best kept American media secret of the year? Just-announced heavyweight new studies from the U.S. National Solar Observatory tell us to expect a long quiet period for the sun—and decades of cooler global temperatures.
Americans, do you still believe that the United States of America is the home of the brave and land of the free? If you do, you are either ignorant, complicit, or both. The vast majority of Americans have been roped, hogtied, indoctrinated/dumbed-down by the suspension of the power to think logically by the public schools, all the while freedom’s gate is in the process of irreversibly being slammed shut.
This is how preposterous the illegal immigration issue has gotten: Mexico and a host of other Latin American countries joined a lawsuit Thursday trying to prevent Georgia’s House Bill 87 from taking effect.
There never was a political organization more corrupt that I could find, than the Roman Senate.