Comrade Reem sent me those dispatches from Cairo (I cite with her permission): "Just two hours later I was lucky enough to watch wonderful Ahmad al-Shahat climb
the embassy building and liberate it (!) Immediately the people who were firing
the rockets switched to a proper fireworks display. Lots of young military men
ran to watch Ahmad too by the way, no difference between them and the protesters
for those few minutes - I'll attach a photo. As we left, we made victory signs
to the rest of the military police sitting in the four or five tanks along the
length of the bridge and many of them answered, I think they must be so torn.
Lots of the protestors kept talking to them, telling them 'ento masryeen, ento
masryeen..' Ill be heading to tonight's suhur at the embassy, I couldn't get
reception late last night but will email what I can if possible this time.
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!"
