Just days after rhetoric and threats escalated between the Turks and Israelis, Egypt is now under a state of emergency as protesters successfully breached the Israeli embassy in Cairo forcing the Israeli ambassador to flee the country.
From the report at The Telegraph:
The Israeli ambassador and other diplomatic staff were forced to flee the country after the attack in which petrol bombs were met with tear gas from the security services as demonstrators stormed the embassy, throwing documents from the windows and burning Israel's flag.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, called the mob attack a "serious incident" and an unnamed official warned it was a "painful blow to peace" between Egypt and the Jewish state.
In the night-time attack, protesters lit tyres in the street and at least two vehicles were set alight near the embassy, located on the upper floors of a residential apartment block overlooking the Nile.
The embassy attack was the worst since Israel established its mission in Egypt after becoming the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state in 1979. Jordan followed suit in 1994.
Mansur al-Eissawy, Egypt's interior minister, declared a state of high alert, cancelling all police leave, while Essam Sharaf, the prime minister, called an emergency cabinet meeting.
The attack came as about 1,000 protesters marched from Tahrir Square where thousands had gathered on Friday to press Egypt's military rulers to keep promises of reform after the revolt in January and February led to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak.
So, the Egyptian police and military couldn't have stopped a mere 1,000 protesters? Hmmm....seems to me this sounds like the embassy was probably half under fire before any police or security even showed up. And it probably took half a dozen phone calls to get an Egyptian military team in to escort the Israeli ambassador and staff out.
My other observation is this - 3 months ago Barack Hussein Obama is heralding the overthrow of Mubarek and applauding this natural case of "democracy" in Egypt and now he's on the phone with Israel's Netanyahu saying he is outraged by the embassy attack. Yeah right. The Marxists in America have the Egypt they wanted now and of course, not a single one of them will ever admit that the Middle East is now officially on a permanent state of emergency because they were fooled by the lying islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt on high alert after deadly attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo
The Israeli ambassador and other diplomatic staff were forced to flee the country after the attack in which petrol bombs were met with tear gas from the security services as demonstrators stormed the embassy, throwing documents from the windows and burning Israel's flag.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, called the mob attack a "serious incident" and an unnamed official warned it was a "painful blow to peace" between Egypt and the Jewish state.
In the night-time attack, protesters lit tyres in the street and at least two vehicles were set alight near the embassy, located on the upper floors of a residential apartment block overlooking the Nile.
As dawn broke, about 500 demonstrators remained and a few threw stones at police and army vehicles and personnel. But police gradually pushed them further away and secured the area.
It was the second big eruption of violence at the embassy since five Egyptian border guards were killed last month during an Israeli operation against gunmen.
Barack Obama, the US President, asked Egypt to protect the embassy, and Alain Juppe, France's foreign minister, expressed concern over Egyptian-Israeli ties.
President Obama spoke to Mr Netanyahu by phone and expressed "great concern about the situation at the embassy, and the security of the Israelis serving there," the White House said.
The Israeli official said Ambassador Yitzhak Levanon, other staff and dependants had all left Egypt but a senior diplomat remained behind.
"We left the deputy ambassador to keep up contact with the Egyptian government," the official told AFP in Jerusalem on condition of anonymity.
He said six embassy staff were led to safety by Egyptian commandos.
"It was a painful blow to the peace between us and a grave violation of diplomatic norms," the official said.
The embassy attack was the worst since Israel established its mission in Egypt after becoming the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state in 1979. Jordan followed suit in 1994.
Mansur al-Eissawy, Egypt's interior minister, declared a state of high alert, cancelling all police leave, while Essam Sharaf, the prime minister, called an emergency cabinet meeting.
The attack came as about 1,000 protesters marched from Tahrir Square where thousands had gathered on Friday to press Egypt's military rulers to keep promises of reform after the revolt in January and February led to the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak.
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I find it strange that the Egyptians have forgotten how badly the Israelis defeated their army in the past. Egyptian children are taught that they won the 1973 war and that the US forced Egypt to surrender. (For the record the Israelis surrounded the Egyptian 3rd Army.) This with the official anti-Semitism is a disaster for Egypt and will lead to massive causalities.
The Israelis have a response to the Egyptian people:
A message to the Egyptian people from an average Israeli
I do hope someone with intelligence in Egypt listens carefully.
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