Egyptians Burning Israeli Flag

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Egyptians Burning Israeli Flag

Israeli media reports that almost all the personnel in the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan, has been evacuated following a call of the activists in Jordan to a “million-man march” against Israel on Thursday. The foreign ministry in Israel did not make any comments other that the embassy personnel generally leaves the embassy over the Muslim weekend.

The precaution was taken in order to prevent a repetition of the situation in Cairo, when thousands of Egyptians took it to streets, protesting against Israel’s policies toward the neighbors, especially against the incident at the Israel-Egypt border, where five Egyptian security troops lost their lives as Israel pursued some Palestinian terrorists across the border.

The Egyptians stormed on Monday Israel’s embassy in Cairo an tore down the national flag, throwing it in the street while people were applauding the gesture. The Jordanians called for tearing down the Israeli flag from the embassy just like it happened in Cairo.

Israel seems to have made many enemies out of countries that in the past, that is last year, were in very good relations with it. The new anti-Israeli violent protests in Cairo, in Turkey and in Jordan show that something could be wrong in the foreign policy of the Jewish state.

The Saudi press, which reflects the policy of the Saudi monarch in the largest Arab country in the Arabic Peninsula, identified as fault of Israeli foreign policy the “aggressiveness” towards neighbors.

The Jordan king Abdullah, whose family has a tradition in coexisting with Israel, said that Israel is now in the worst spot possible and that his country and the Palestinian state are much stronger now than the Jewish state.

The king said that he had no intentions to continue to present his country as an alternative state for Palestinians and that consequently he supported the Palestinian bid for a new state.

The scandal with Egypt seemed to have simmered down as Israel presented his evidence that the shooting of the five security officers was by accident. Israel presented evidence that showed that they could have even been killed by the terrorists in the shootout that followed the spotting of their hideout.

Nevertheless, the damage was already done and the people of Egypt retained only that Israeli troops shot five of their people. It was enough to remember that soon after another former ally of Israel felt insulted and betrayed.

Egypt is going through the rough transition that accompanies every ouster of dictatorial rule. The fight between Islamists and secularists is on in order to establish what kind of state they want: a secular one or an Islamic one.

The incident with Israel can only fuel the apprehension of the people, who feel that Israel is the “natural” enemy of the Islamic nations. This could only help parties like Muslim Brotherhood score more points in the elections to come.

Still, it is possible that the future state of Egypt embrace a moderate vision of Islamic state, like Libyans did two days ago. To that a contribution can make the rising political star of the Middle East, the charismatic Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who arrived in Egypt exactly as the embassy of Israel was bullied by angry mobs.

Erdogan was received like an Islamic hero by the people of Cairo, the hope of Islam to fight the Jewish state and help the Palestinians have a state of their own.

He was generous, he spoke of the need to stand by the side of Palestinians, and help them establish a state. His rhetoric about Israel was however toned down a little bit by the pleas of the military council of Egypt not to stir people’s revolt against Israel which is already at maximum quota.

Even so, Erdogan collected the sympathy and the assurances that his country will play a major role in the region. As he delivered his speech at the Arab League, he succeeded in causing long rounds of applauses, as he called the Arabs there “brothers,” even though Turks are no Arabs, and called for unity in the case of Palestinians.

Nothing stopped him this time from lashing out at Israel for the Palmer report and for the fact that the Jewish state refused to apologize for the incident on Mavi Marmara, when nine Turks died at the hand of the Jewish IDF. He said that no normalization of relations would occur unless the Israelis paid compensation to the families of the deceased. No talk about apology or about ending blockade on Gaza. Is that saying something?

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Israel is in a tough spot, with three big conflicts on its hands: the growing conflict with the Egyptians, the downgraded relations with the Turks, and the bid of the Palestinians for statehood by the UN next week.

The worse part is that it seems that Israel draws the negative emotions of the people who are coming out of the Arab Spring as free nations looking for a national identity. Anti-Semite attitude seems to be embedded these days into the political fabric of these emerging states, and Israel will have to deal with it.

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