One year after Israel's deadly siege on Gaza, over 1400 international solidarity activists descended on Egypt under the banner of the Gaza Freedom March with the plan of marching into Gaza and breaking the blockade that is exacerbating Gaza's humanitarian crisis. That the ensuing conflict between the Egyptian government and these activists happened at precisely the moment that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Cairo to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak underlined Egypt's compromised position. Just a couple of weeks earlier, Israel escalated its targeted campaign of suppression by arresting yet another high-profile grassroots leader, Jamal Juma' of the West Bank-based Stop the Wall Campaign. Ziad Abbas, a longtime grassroots organizer from the West Bank's Dheisheh refugee camp, talks with host Tammy Bang Luu.
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[1] http://www.thestrategycenter.org/sites/www.thestrategycenter.org/files/Podcasts/2010/2010-01-05