Image via Friday Lunch Club
Ahmad Shehata taking down the flag from the Israeli Embassy in Egypt.
Video below the fold.
Notice what the people shout. As Egypt goes …
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August 21, 2011
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I’m not sure what the people are shouting…it’s sounds like “yal-lah” which means “let’s go!,” cheering the climber on.
Posted by: JohnH | Aug 21 2011 14:38 utc | 1
France 24 correspondent reporting in Arabic that Brits and Americans among the rebels…
Posted by: JohnH | Aug 21 2011 15:10 utc | 3
‘Gaza’ is was I hear, I think.
Quite a few people there. Much more than what a brief report I read in El Pais suggested.
Posted by: Philippe | Aug 21 2011 15:23 utc | 4
I think it was Gaza, but pronounced in the English way G-long a-z-short a. Not the Arabic way, which is Gh-short a-double z-short a.
That would suggest there were westerners in the crowd. There probably were, including my daughter, who’s there in Cairo.
Posted by: alexno | Aug 21 2011 16:32 utc | 5
there is also this
http://www.berlinbiennale.de/blog/en/news-en/the-jewish-renaisance-movement-in-poland-5514
Posted by: somebody | Aug 21 2011 17:50 utc | 6
This is my second night at the Israeli Embassy demos in Cairo.. There are thousands and I’m sure many people wrote to you already describing the atmosphere, defiance, the Arab flags. But what I want to tell you that’s new and amazing is that people are launching fireworks at the embassy, and the flag, safely occupying the top floor of the building in Gaza. And they are taking aim time after time and the crowd is shouting ilsha3b yureed esqat ilsafeer and 3alquds, rayheen, shuhadaa bilmalayeen.[(The People Want the Downfall of the Ambassador; To Jerusalem We are going, martyrs in the millions)]. It’s like they’re saying if the state won’t fight, we will ourselves with our own weapons. Now we can hear the sound of the security vehicles, my friend says he remembers them from the teargas attacks. And the protests continue in Alex and Sharqiya and all over. More later!”
Posted by: annie | Aug 22 2011 3:00 utc | 7