Skolnick, a supporter of the trip and member of the Movement Building working group that is organizing it, explained that last week's NYPD raid derailed their plan, before violence swept engulfed Tahrir Square. As the Occupiers were in the process of nominating two to three representatives from the movement's six working groups to send to the Egyptian organizers who were to select the final delegation, the forced eviction wasted valuable time that they needed to prepare for the trip, and outstanding proposals needed to make the arrangements couldn't be passed. Over the course of about 30 hours of discussion some organizers in New York suggested delaying the trip, and in the last 24- or 48-hours, protesters on the ground in Cairo weighed in definitively. "A few Egyptian organizers told us, 'Just wait. Don't come yet,'" Skolnick said, who is not one of the original organizers of the delegation and hasn't been in direct contact with the Egyptians. "Personally I'm disappointed, but I know this is just the beginning. We're definitely going to have future delegations not only to Egypt but to other places. This is a global movement."

After Tuesday night's General Assembly meeting, Matthew Cappiello, who identifies himself as a co-organizer of the delegation but says he can't speak for the entire working group, told The Atlantic Wire, "The project has certainly been postponed to a date later than the November 28 stage of the elections. At this point, we are unsure of the rest of the details. The tickets have not been bought. The project has not been cancelled, however, nor has the funding been removed."

The longer term future of the trip and the fate of the funding is unclear. Skolnick says there will be a meeting tomorrow to discuss the next steps, and meanwhile, there's a contentious debate going on within the Movement Building working group over whether or not Tuesday night's vote should count. The Egyptian expedition has been contentious from the start. As The Atlantic Wire's Adam Martin reported after the initial proposal for funding passed, some people who had donated to the Occupy movement weren't happy that their money was going towards a trip to the Middle East. (Of course, with an estimated $500,000 in the bank, they have the finances for such projects.) It certainly didn't help when an Egyptian state television anchor pointed to the Occupy movement as justification for the violence in Tahrir. As prolific Arab Spring tweeter Sultan Al Qassemi recorded it, the anchor said on Saturday, "We saw the firm stance the US took against OWS people & the German govt against green protesters to secure the state." And on Tuesday, three college students were arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails, providing the military-controlled government a propaganda boost as they claimed it was proof of foreign agitaors fomenting the recent unrest.