Israeli Arabs against Mubarak: Learn from Israel

[The face of Jacob]

Israeli Arabs against Mubarak: Learn from Israel

Relatives of Sinai accident casualties hold demonstration opposite Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv, claim that Egypt authorities failed in treating injured, protest lenient sentence handed to bus driver

Avi Cohen Published: 09.13.06, 13:08

Some 100 Israeli Arabs held a rally Wednesday outside the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv in protest of what they perceive as the country's failed handling of the traffic accident in Sinai which left 12 Israelis dead.

The demonstrators also protested the lenient sentence handed to the bus driver involved in the accident, who will serve only one year in prison.

Mubarak invited to Israel (Photo: Avi Cohen)


"Learn from Israel what human dignity means. Human dignity is a primary value in Israel," the protesters shouted.

Participants in the rally held up signs saying, "12 killed, 12 months in jail – justice Egypt-style," and "State of Israel – don't abandon injured and killed citizens."

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One of the protesters was a woman whose son was wounded in the accident and who died later because he was not evacuated to the hospital in time. Assad Gaban from the community of Mazra'a lost his brother Najub in the accident. His daughter was seriously injured and is still hospitalized. Gaban called on President Hosni Mubarak to come to Israel and "learn from the Israelis what value for life means."

"I tell the Egyptians that they should be ashamed of themselves. They didn't send any letter of condolences. We want Israelis to learn from this not to go to Egypt or to Sinai. If anything happens to them there, they will not receive any treatment," he stated.

Some of the families claim that the incident was not a traffic accident, but a terror attack. According to Gaban, "unfortunately, from the testimonies we've heard, it appears that it was an attack. From the beginning of the ride the driver was rude to the passengers and drove recklessly and in a manner that endangered the passengers."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...303434,00.html

[coral100cor]

As usual egyptians also didn't let israeli ambulances to get in and evacuate the wounded.

[oki]

was it an accident or was it the drivers fault? one year prison for an accident seems a bit harsh..

[coral100cor]

Originally Posted by oki

was it an accident or was it the drivers fault? one year prison for an accident seems a bit harsh..

If I'm remember right he was driving too fast, and there was many victims.
I'm getting an impression that for a place like Egypt he did went out easy, but "I don't know" probably knows better.

From the other side, as I remember from my visit to Egypt, the traffic rules are not even a "recomendation" overthere, but this was long time ago.

Israeli arabs also are not exactly obediant to those rules.
It allways amuses me to see how my husband, that grow up in the north, is completaly calm, when he is driving in arab town and every driver there is doing exacly as they pleased, like on some computer game, and that's when he getts real angry if somebody is disturbing him in for example, Tel-Aviv...

[I don't know]

To call this a terror attack seems very far fetched Granted, the average Egyptian certainly doesn't have much left over for Israelis. Most bookshops here will gladly sell you a copy of the protocolls of the elders of Zion, and hand you a copy of the Torah to read with it.

But things move slowly in Egypt, both because of African time and because of the incompetent government.

The traffic must have improved since coral was here last, though. I've seen people follow the rules a couple of times at least!

[coral100cor]

Originally Posted by I don't know

The traffic must have improved since coral was here last, though. I've seen people follow the rules a couple of times at least!

If it was in Alexandria - it doesn't counts

[The face of Jacob]

I heard in the radio couple of hours ago that some of the passengers in the bus said that when they asked the bus driver to drive slowly he told them that they are traitors and collaborators with Israel and that they don't have the right to say anything.