This week, Israel severely restricted Palestinian Arabs from crossing the Green Line for Passover, as it does every year. The chance for terror attacks increases greatly during Jewish holidays, as we had seen in the Park Hotel Passover massacre of 2002 that killed 30, 21 of whom were over 70 years old.
Anti-Israel sites are keen on pointing out how horrible Israel is for doing this, and how especially delicious the irony that Israel seems to celebrate its holiday celebrating freedom by restricting the freedom of Palestinian Arabs.
It just so happens that the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza has been closed since last night and will continue to be closed from now through Tuesday. It is also closing it for a national holiday.
Not one English-language news source is mentioning this story.
And what holiday is Egypt celebrating?
"Sinai Liberation Day", April 25th, is the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from Sinai in 1982.
I guess that irony that Gazans are imprisoned during Sinai Liberation Day (and the days before and afterwards) is not the right kind of irony.
