Israeli embassy in Cairo attacked
'Protesters' demolished a wall around the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday. The wall was put up around the embassy after a 'protester' scaled the wall three weeks ago, and took down the Israeli flag from the building. About 30 protesters then broke into the building and into the embassy itself, tossing documents out the window.Let's go to the videotape. This is from al-Jazeera Arabic.
Some 'protesters' have claimed that they beat up embassy employees and went through embassy documents.
Let's go to the videotape.
Mustafa al-Sayyid, 28, said he was one of the 20 protestors who infiltrated the embassy building. He showed the press a clip he took with his cellular phone, in which protestors are seen raiding the embassy and going through documents.Israel's ambassador was flown back to Israel with 80 staff members aboard an Air Force jet early on Saturday. The guards who were trapped inside the embassy returned later. The Egyptians claim that they have caught the 'protesters' and will bring them to trial. But the Egyptians apparently did nothing for hours on Friday, allowing the 'protest' to continue. YNet reports that three protesters will killed and more than 1,000 injured.
According to Sayyid, he and his friends managed to beat up an Israeli worker before Egyptian soldiers intervened. He said the soldiers removed the protestors from the building but failed to arrest them.
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Six security guards and workers, stranded in the building throughout the attack, were rescued early Saturday by an Egyptian commando force and returned to Israel.
The attacks have been condemned by Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States (Is the US leading from behind again? That's the order in which the JPost put the condemnations). But most surprising is this tweet from Bahrain's Foreign Minister.
I guess they figured out it could happen to them too.
So have we demanded an apology from the Egyptians yet? I definitely think we should.
Labels: Cairo, Egyptian regime change, Israeli embassy
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:54 PM
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Bibi: Israel's Ambassador to return soon. Thanks Obama and Egyptian commandoes for efforts to protect Israeli personnel and restore order:
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=237453
I read about this on aljazeera and haaretz already. Isralei relations with its neighbors are getting quite tense.
I am going to follow you. Even though I don't agree with all your views, you do have a nice blog.
How cute, there's someone who thinks that Arab Muslim Maghreb states so much as care what laws are or that anyone on the planet will officially point that out to them and ask them to not be Medieval savages. Well that's silly. How do you think the Army is going to get away with never holding elections? By demonizing all Jews, that's how. Pretty standard Muslim playbook stuff.
Egyptian valley girl calls the embassy wall an Apartheid Wall! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1y09atiSLM
PFacts - You are so right. CiJ runs one of the best blogs anywhere. Re the "tensions" between Israel & neighbors.... Israel is just sitting there, curing cancer. Why don't you just work with them instead of all this "tension" and attacking? Got anything to bring to the braintrust? Bet you do.
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