no no no no
I have neither the time nor the inclination to do a 101 with you.
If you can't see that this protest in Egypt is the very same action(s) that the activists are so critical of the west for. Colonising the ME, the Muslim lands, the land of "the other", through their support of Israel, and the invasions of Afghanistan/Iraq, by doing what amounts to exactly the same thing.
It's Egypt's decision, as a sovereign nation, as how to control their borders and we have activists flying over specifically to interfere.
I figure the activist community loves this IvP fight. It gives them a focus to try and undo, in a symbolic sense, the colonisation of the Americas by voicing their objection to what they perceive as an invasion of the ME by the evil white capitalist west.
I'm saying it's more about the activists themselves and their patting themselves on their backs about how much more moral and ethical they are than any real concern for the people of Palestine. If these activists were really concerned, they'd be urging the Palestinians to surrender, give it up, declare a state of non belligerency and everybody go off and have a nice life.
But no, activists urge the fight on knowing there's no way for the Palestinians to win. That's why they dismiss the rockets fired from Gaza as "toy" rockets, as ineffectual and not deserving of an armed response.