Last week, some 4,000 participants from over 40 countries demanded humanitarian aid access to Gaza, via Egypt’s heavily fortified border crossing at Rafah. An advance group of 200 (including a number of Canadians) was stopped by Egyptian police, indifferent to emotional pleas for their cooperation on behalf of their Gazan “brethren.” The incident ended with casual brutality meted out to some, others detained or deported.