On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Harel Cain <harel.cain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's a matter of convincing people to disregard
their own government's
formal travel advisory (which as I said is very clear about Egypt at
this time; would Americans for example travel to a country that the
State Department strongly advises to avoid?). I know of two local
wikipedians who are still planning to go. We tried organizing a bigger
group at our local village pump but people are naturally rather
hesitant to go to a place where they (justifiably?) feel they might be
at risk, or just feel very uncomfortable or unwanted.
Israel's biggest newspaper Yedioth Ahronot runs an article today about
an organized tour to Egypt of Israelis of Egyptian origin, which got a
very "cold shoulder" from Egyptian authorities.
I don't want to turn this into a political debate about the
intricacies of the Israeli-Egyptian cold peace, though. I just wanted
to put the Egyptian minister's expressions in context.
I still hope to make it to Alexandria.
Harel
Just to be clear, you're saying that Israel has advised citizens not to
travel to Egypt? This makes sense, but I think I misread it and got
confused. Are there any other major countries who advise their citizens not
to travel to Egypt?
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