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Mubarak of Egypt was an abusive leader, no question about it, but he did keep demonstrations of hatred in check between Arab nations and Israel. With that being said, however, the Islamic Brotherhood’s involvement with riots in Cairo to remove Mubarak from office, there is nothing in place now to prevent Iran from moving weapons into Israel. As planned by the Brotherhood, without Mubarak in office, there is no buffer to protect Israel from attacks.
The 13-hour rampage deepened Israel’s fears that it is growing increasingly isolated amid the Arab world’s uprisings and, in particular, that Egypt is turning steadily against it after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the authoritarian leader who was a close ally. … www.Foxnews.com
Try to imagine seeing what Israelis’ were seeing and how frightened they must have been? They saw cars burning outside the embassy and were told that six Israeli guards were trapped inside for hours in a steel-doored safe room.
Anti-Israeli sentiment in Egypt is not something new, of course, it’s been going on in that region for decades — children are taught as babies to hate Jews and that Israel must be wiped off the face of this earth. Mubarak’s regime contained the advancement of this hated and from it turning into actions against Israel.
“The ousted leader’s powerful security forces never would have let a protest get near the Nile-side embassy” states the Fox report.
Egypt’s new military rulers, in turn, appear caught between preserving key ties with Israel — which guarantee them billions in U.S. military aid — and pressure from the Egyptian public. Many Egyptians are demanding an end to what they see as too cozy a relationship under Mubarak, who they feel knuckled under to Israel and the U.S., doing nothing to pressure for concessions to the Palestinians.Egyptian security forces did nothing as hundreds of protesters massed Friday outside the Nile-side high rise residential building where the Israeli Embassy is located and tore down a concrete security wall Egyptian authorities erected there only weeks earlier. Many protesters saw the wall as a symbol of the government’s willingness to protect Israelis but not Egyptians, since it was put up to keep back protests after Israeli forces chasing militants accidentally killed five Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula.
Police and military also did little initially when a group of around 30 protesters after nightfall climbed in a third-story window and raced up to the embassy floors, broke into an office and began throwing Hebrew-language documents to the crowd below. The protesters ransacked parts of two floors of the embassy for hours until police finally managed to clear them out in the early hours Saturday.
Frantic Israeli calls to President Barack Obama brought American intercession to help ease the violence.
An Egyptian security official said the ruling military did not order the police to clamp down on the protests outside in order to “avoid a massacre.” They couldn’t move more quickly to clear out protesters inside the embassy because the fervent crowd outside “considered them heroes,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to the press.
But in a Saturday evening television address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu avoided any condemnations and instead stressed the need to maintain its strategic relationship with Egypt, whose peace with Israel — though sometimes chilly — has been a vital peg of stability for the Jewish state.
“We will continue to keep the peace with Egypt it is an interest of both countries,” Netanyahu said.
What more proof do we need that Israel needs our support? Israel needs to know that Americans stand with them, even if our own President doesn’t, and that we will pray for them. Other than spreading the word and asking our associations to do the same, there is not much else we can do as an individual.
In addition,we should be quick to tell Congress and the President that we are very disappointed in their stance against Israel. Siding with Arab nations to recognize a Palestinian State in the United Nations is going to cause all sorts of problems.
