Seleucid king of North Stirs Up Trouble in king of the South’s Land,
After southern Ptolemaic kingdom’s Israeli Embassy is Attacked.
Muslim Brotherhood AND Islamic Jihad ARE Using Arab Spring
To end the Israel peace treaties signed by Egypt & Jordan,
Paving a Way for War to Likely Begin Twixt 2013 & 2015.
September 12, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile Special Report
Erdogan: Mavi Marmara clash casus belli. Cairo, Amman alert for anti-Israel demos
DEBKAfile Special Report
September 12, 2011, 9:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
While Egypt and Israel acted to cool the crisis in relations sparked by last Friday’s mob attack on the Israeli embassy, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan threatened another inflammatory speech against Israel during his Monday visit, Sept. 12 – this one from Tahrir Square in a bid to buy the popularity of the Arab street.
Jerusalem and Washington are concerned that it will have the effect of stirring up anti-Israel riots in Egypt and Jordan, Israel’ second peace partner, as well as encouraging the Palestinian terrorist Jihad Islami lurking in Sinai to proceed with its threatened cross-border attack.
Sunday, Sept. 11, the military rulers of Egypt instructed the local media to tone down their coverage of the mob attack on the Israeli embassy Friday night. They announced that 130 rioters would be put on trial. Israel too made every effort to play the episode down by focusing attention on the “courageous stand” taken by the six security guards “only a door away from death” in order to distract attention from the absence of an Israeli ambassador in Cairo after thirty years of normal relations.
DEBKAfile’s sources report that while Israel and Egyptian report efforts to reinstate the envoy soon, it will be some time before the next Israeli ambassador Yakov Amitai takes up his post. First, Israel will have to build a fortified embassy building like US and British premises in Cairo and other world capitals, for which the necessary Egyptian permission cannot be taken for granted.
Political sources in Washington and Jerusalem are profoundly concerned by four fraught developments unfolding this week – all capable of sending Israel’s ties with Egypt and Turkey into another perilous tailspin:
1. The Turkish prime minister’s Tahrir Square speech Monday afternoon.
His anti-Israel campaign has drawn from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood an enthusiastic welcome and the promise of a mass turnout. The MB declared the mob attack on the Israeli embassy a legitimate protest operation in defiance of the Egyptian government’s position.
Above all, Erdogan will not stand for the Arab League foreign ministers’ session in Cairo on the same day – to approve the Palestinian bid for UN membership, tealing the thunder of his official visit to Egypt. Concern about the coming speech was heightened when the full, unedited text of the Turkish prime minster’s interview to the Arabic television station Al Jazeera Thursday, Sept 8 reached Washington and Jerualme and was compared with the adulterated version circulated by Ankara and TV channel.
It reveals that Erdogan actually called Israel’s interception of the Mavi Marmora in May 2010 (during which nine armed activists were killed) an Israeli casus belli for Turkey and extended his threat of aggression to the off shore oil and gas wells of Israel and Cyprus.
According the original text of the speech, Erdogan declared that Turkey will never accept the accord Israel and Cyprus concluded last year marking out their maritime zones for exploration. What Israel is doing, he said “will not happen” – a phrase he repeated with great determination.
The adulterated version released by Erdogan’s office Friday, Sept.
9, the day after the interview read: “As long as Israel does not interfere in the freedom of navigation, we do not plan on sending any warships to escort humanitarian aid ships.”
This is termed by DEBKAfile’s sources no more than a play on words leaving the first threat to have Turkish warships escort aid vessels to the Gaza Strip and visit the eastern Mediterranean fully in place. The potential for a Turkish-Israeli clash at sea appears to be low but remains credible.
He knows Israel is determined not to lift the naval blockade on the Gaza Strip – certainly not after the UN pronounced it legal and necessary. He also knows therefore that his warships cannot avoid running into the Israeli Navy. His purpose remains provocative, because Turkey is free to consign unlimited humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through Egypt – not to mention Israel.
DEBKAfile’s sources disclose that this “amended” statement was produced in response to heavy pressure from NATO leaders to quit his belligerent stance against Israel.
2. The Turkish prime minister said Sunday that his campaign against Israel has five stages of which only two have been implemented.
Word has reached Jerusalem that Erdogan is preparing more sanctions against Israel to be enforced in days. They include cutting off diplomatic ties, a ban on Turkish trade with the Jewish state and acquitting Turkish businesses and industrialists of their contractual obligations to Israel firms, including debts totaling $400 million.
3. Israel’s government and military leaders worry that the Palestinian Jihad Islami terrorists lurking in Sinai for the past three weeks will choose this moment to strike – whether to kidnap Israelis still vacationing on its beaches or a cross-border attack in Israel. The gunmen have met no Egyptian military interference and they will no doubt be encouraged to take advantage of the incendiary climate generated by the Turkish prime minister and Cairo mob’s sacking of the Israeli embassy.
The Palestinian group’s Iranian and Hizballah sponsors will not miss the chance of further undermining Israeli security. Sunday night saw the first indications of trouble when an Israeli border patrol north of Eilat came under fire from Egyptian Sinai. No one was hurt but Israeli troops guarding that precarious border are more on their toes now than ever.
4. The Muslim Brothers, Hamas and other radical Palestinian organizations in Jordan have used Facebook to rally “a million-strong march” on the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital of Amman for Thursday evening, Sept. 15, to push for the expulsion of Israeli Ambassador Danny Nevo.
5. Jordan security forces are on alert to prevent the Israeli embassy sacking in Cairo from being repeated in Amman.
Excerpt 2 – Washington Post
Israel Requests U.S. Help after Protesters Attack Embassy in Cairo
Michael Birnbaum and Ingy Hassieb
Israel airlifted its ambassador home and sought U.S. intervention with Egypt to help secure its embassy in Cairo on Saturday, hours after thousands of Egyptian protesters besieged the building. They knocked down a 12-foot concrete wall that had been built last week to protect the embassy, which is near the top floor of a 21-story residential building.
Irsraeli officials described tense hours Friday night during which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke by phone with President Obama to seek help in protecting the embassy and extricating six Israeli security guards trapped inside when a mob broke through an outer door into the public reception and consular affairs area.
Netanyahu was also in contact with the Egyptian chief of intelligence, Gen. Murad Muwafi, a member of the ruling military council. “The rioters were literally a door away” from the security guards, said one Israeli official. “There was very real concern for their safety and their lives.”
After tear gas was used to disperse the protesters, the Israeli guards were eventually extricated by Egyptian commandos and escorted to the airport, where they flew back to Israel on an Israeli air force plane. An Israeli official said “we know” that American intervention with the Egyptian authorities helped “stabilize the situation and get our people out.” Diplomats in Cairo voiced concern, wondering whether their own embassies were secure. (Washington Post)
Excerpt 3 – The IPT Blog
For The Record – The IPT Blog
Brotherhood Justifies Assault on Israeli Embassy
by IPT News
September 11, 2011 at 10:32 am
Egyptian commandos helped rescue six guards inside the Israeli embassy in Cairo early Saturday morning, after dozens of people among thousands of protestors stormed
the building. The crowd had smashed through a newly-erected security wall and was separated from the Israelis by one metal door.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s 80-year-old Islamist society which is poised to gain considerable power in upcoming elections, blamed Israel for the violence and breach of sovereign diplomatic ground.
“The slowness and negligence about the rights of our martyr soldiers killed by the Zionists at the border, the not adopting a decisive stand, wavering on the withdrawal of the Egyptian Ambassador, and the Zionist arrogance in refusing to even apologize, as well as the building of a big concrete wall to protect the Embassy were most important reasons that led to the explosion of national sentiment in the hearts of the Egyptians,” a statement on the Brotherhood’s website said. “The remedy for that lies in the authority, whether the interim authority now or the coming civil authority, responding to the will of the people and respecting their dignity.”
Israel did apologize for the deaths of six Egyptian soldiers killed after being caught in the crossfire last month after terrorists fled from a coordinated attack near Eilat in southern Israel. Gaza-based terrorists were blamed for the attack, which killed eight Israelis, but an investigation also found at least three Egyptians were involved. Egyptian press outlets accused Israel of being behind the attacks, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed concern over the attack on his country’s embassy, but tried to strike a calmer tone. In a speech, he thanked the United States for helping urge the Egyptian army to intervene, and he thanked the commandos
for rescuing the Israeli citizens.
“The Middle East is now undergoing a political earthquake of historic proportions,” he said. “…In the face of this historic turmoil we must act coolly and with responsibility.” It is in Egypt and Israel’s interests to preserve their peace treaty, he added, calling again for direct negotiations with the Palestinians.
“Regarding this negotiation, I believe that many people today in our nation and around the world who see what is happening in our area will understand our justified stance in defending our security interests in any future agreement.”
A small group of protestors returned to the embassy Saturday, the Brotherhood website reported.
“Down, down Israel” and “Down with the State of pigs” were among the crowd’s chants.
Begin Excerpt 4 from the UK Financial Times
Iran Praises Raid on Israel’s Embassy
Najmeh Bozorgmehr
The Islamic regime in Tehran has welcomed the ransacking of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, comparing it to Iran’s takeover of the U.S. embassy more than 30 years ago.
Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader on international affairs, called the Israeli embassy in Cairo “the den of espionage.” (Financial Times-UK)
Begin Excerpt 5 from YNet News
Egypt Arrests 111 over Israel Embassy Riots
Roee Nahmias
The Egyptian military police on Sunday arrested 92 additional people suspected of involvement in the riots at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, bringing the number of detainees up to 111. Senior political sources in Israel said the events “were a test for the Higher Military Council in Egypt. They don’t want to confront the rioters, but they cannot ignore the chaos they created.” “Reinstating the emergency laws are a sign that they know they must gain control over the chaos. Israel is maintaining the defense establishment’s dialogue with Egypt on various levels, on recent events and on other security-related issues, like the situation in Sinai.” (Ynet News)
Begin Excerpt 6 from THE JERUSALEM POST
A Shameful Day for Egypt
Zvi Mazel
The whole world saw that Egypt could not protect the safety and integrity of a foreign embassy and respect the treaties to which it is a signatory. This is not something to inspire confidence or to encourage tourists to visit at a time when Egypt needs the support of the international community for its failing economy.
The Muslim Brothers and the ultra-nationalist movements, long repressed by the previous regime, are controlling the street and dictating their will to the army, with each fighting to shape the country their way.
The naive and fearless youngsters who took to the street on Jan. 25 to dem and change
and better conditions have lost. Hatred towards Israel is the only common ground for the deeply divided forces battling for control in Egypt. The writer is a former Israeli ambassador to Egypt. (Jerusalem Post)
Begin Excerpt 7 from Ynet News
Why Do They Hate Us
?
Tomer Velmer
According to Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a senior research fellow at the Begin- Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, “The peace between Israel and Egypt was illegitimate to begin with in the eyes of the Egyptian people. It was an agreement with the Zionists, and the majority of the Egyptian population is religious, and does not believe the State of Israel has the right to exist.” “Anwar Sadat, who was a dictator, decided to act against the will of his people when he signed the peace treaty, and was assassinated as a result,” Kedar said.
“Since Mubarak was deposed, unemployment has doubled, and so has the frustration among Egyptians, who are desperately looking for a scapegoat…so the Egyptian public turns its anger toward Israel.”
Despite the hatred toward Israel, Prof. Eyal Zisser of Tel Aviv University doesn’t foresee a military clash with Egypt, even if public pressure continues to grow. “The Egyptian army is too preoccupied with instilling order, and has no time or willingness to prepare for war.” (Ynet News)
Begin Excerpt 8 from Wall Street Journal
Arab Spring Increases Uncertainty for Israel
Joshua Mitnick
Israeli leaders are struggling to navigate a Middle East in which its strategic pillar of the last few decades – a three-way axis with U.S.-allied Muslim powers – has crumbled, a day after rescuing its embassy staff from a mob in Cairo. The regional crisis reignited a debate in Israel over whether a peace push with the Palestinians would ease Israel’s problems. But the prevailing opinion in the U.S. government seems to view Israel as more vulnerable and unable to influence the region.
“The main effect of what used to be called the Arab Spring is to introduce a much higher degree of uncertainty in how Israel looks at the region,” said Dore Gold, a former ambassador to the UN under Netanyahu.
“Can anyone guarantee to Israel that most of the regimes surrounding it will be there in five years time?” (Wall Street Journal)
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