Mrs Amira Hass you were there at the Cairo Bus Station on the 30th Dec, speaking French and awaiting for the Egyptian gvt buses to take the GFM 100 elected representatives to Gaza. You were there but you do not report what you saw. You do not report that the GFM coordinating committee at late night decided finally NOT to accept the EGY gvt offer for sending 100 out of the 1362 activists. They came and announced it there. You saw that the overwhelming majority of the 100 reps GOT OFF the buses.. In their place went 50-60 people from the awaiting lot on their own NOT ENDORSED by the GFM. So the cold reception they received by the Gazan Authorities was the expected one. My view is that they should not have been allowed in BUT when you are a people blockaded, bombarded and systematically killed by the Israeli colonial army for almost 3 years, living in the rubble without the basics THEN you do have to make such concessions.. Alas the Need