Welcome to (fascist) Egypt!

Welcome to Egypt visitors. This is the sign you'll find a few hundred meters after leaving the Rafah border crossing with Gaza. Visitors? What visitors??! Maybe they are talking about the few heavily bombed nearly dead Palestinians that are brought to Egyptian hospitals. But I don't think these people are capable of opening their eyes to see this sign of so-called Egyptian hospitality. The Rafah border crossing, operated by the Egyptians is closed and has been closed for a long time. Depriving the already deprived Gazans of yet another right: The right to flee violence and seek a safe shelter. This is not the only conflict in the world and in terms of fatalities not the most severe, but even in the bloodiest conflicts civilians are able and allowed to flee the war violence... whereas the people in Gaza can do nothing else but await the rain of bombs and pray that God will spare them, just for once, making this one of the most detrimental humanitarian disasters in this world.
No-one can go in or out... except for around 30 of the most seriously wounded people each day and a team of 10 aidworkers that got very lucky and was allowed to go in. And for the rest: no matter what a great docter or journalist you are. The doors remain shut.

So yes... welcome to Egypt. In the nearly ten days that I've been here I've been questioned by the Egyptian secret service 4 times and than I'm not even considering all the times I've been questioned at the many checkpoints that are now allover the country (mainly because of the situation in Gaza now... at least so I've been told). I was sent away from the hospital in Al Arish where I wanted to visit some of the victims with an Egyptian nurse that I had met on the beach. The secret service checked my passport, questioned me in detail and then send me away... as if visiting wounded people in hospitals is some terrorist act threatening the security of the state of Egypt.
Ironically, every time after they were done questioning me they told me: Welcome to Egypt! Uh?! You guys don't really make me feel welcome at all.... But indeed: Welcome to fascist Egypt. In such a short time I've met regularly with the true face of Egypt, beyond that of the pyramids, the beaches of the Sinai. This is Egypt as it is... welcome! A true fascist country, where the 'security' of the state is deemed more important than individual lives and any feelings of humanity, especially in the case of severe human suffering, are severely oppressed.
"Yes, people in Gaza are dying...but we need to safeguard the security of our country. This is our land, you know". This is how it was more or less literally said to me several times by different people.