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Turkey’s prime minister to meet with Egyptian leaders in effort to strengthen ties

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Jewish World Review

 By Jeffrey Fleishman

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mAIRO— (MCT) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to meet with Egyptian leaders today to strengthen strategic ties at a time both nations are experiencing deepening rifts with Israel over military actions and the fate of the Palestinians.

Relations between Turkey and Egypt have been cool for years. But since the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Cairo has embarked on a foreign policy more tuned to regional public sentiment and less beholden to Israel and the United States.

Turkey and Egypt have been Israel’s closest Muslim allies, but recent tensions are altering those dynamics just as the Arab world is in the throes of revolution and political change. Animosities have been further heightened by the Palestinians’ plans to call on the United Nations this month to recognize Palestinian statehood.

Erdogan’s visit comes as Turkey is moving “to convert Egypt’s popular anger with Israel to favor Turkish regional interests,” said Nabil Abdel Fattah, an analyst with Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. “It’s a Turkish attempt build an isolating barrier to Israel’s arrogant policies in the Middle East.”

The Turkish leader, who supports swift recognition of Palestinian independence, was scheduled to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday night in Cairo. On Tuesday, Erdogan is expected to hold talks with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt’s ruling military council, before traveling to Libya and Tunisia.

The rest of this article is available by clicking the link at the top. H/T Richard for the story

 


JOURNALISTS ATTACKED BY VICIOUS EGYPTIAN MOB, FEMALE PRODUCER CALLS THEM ANIMALS

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Amer had few words to describe the terrifying ordeal.
“They were animals,” she said.

Fahmy lay on top of Amer, shielding her with his body.

“I was thinking, how powerless I was because there was no police to save us,” Fahmy said. “I was worried that they were going to rape her.”

At that moment, a student bystander named Mohammed el Banna called out to the journalists and pointed out a nearby car.

Somehow, Fahmy managed to carry Amer to the open door of the public television crew’s car, where two of her female colleagues were waiting just a few feet away.

The mob pounded on the windows and tried to reach into the vehicle as the panicked reporters fumbled and struggled to get behind the steering wheel.

When Margaret Warner, a correspondent with the PBS program “Newshour” managed to get the vehicle moving away from the crowd, men threw stones at the departing vehicle.

Amer had few words to describe the terrifying ordeal.

“They were animals,” she said.

More here.

France 24 report on storming of Israeli Embassy in Cairo

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This is an interesting report from France 24. I find the omission of reporting, or showing, the burning of the Israeli flag as well as the interview of the person who took it off of the building (and presumably burned it) where he says: “They must all die” (at around 22 seconds), presumably referring to Israelis, as interesting. Clearly the propaganda campaign against Israel and Jews for the past several decades in Muslim nations has paid dividends.

Jerry Gordon on the Israel-Egypt crisis

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Friday, 9 September 2011
Egyptians Ransack Israeli Embassy in Cairo
by Jerry Gordon

Egyptian Mobs ransacking Israeli Embassy in Cairo

Fox News reported Friday that  Egyptians assaulted and ransacked the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. The Israeli Ambassador  his family and staff  fled escorted by police, driven to Cairo airport where a military plane took them home to Israel.  The embassy  was torn apart, documents scattered by the huge mob of protesres  who  assaulted and pierced the high security wall with sledghammers. All while Egyptian police  stood by watrcing  not lifting a finger  to quell the rampaging mob or make arrests.  It is not lost on many of us, that the ruling Supreme Military Council is either indifferent or simply following the course of least resistance since the eruption of the Arab Spring and downfall of the Mubarak government..   Every Friday, Salafist preachers in Cairo  stoke hatred  of Jews and Israel. They demand that the 1979 Peace Treaty between the two countries be torn up ending the Cold Peace -a reference to the lack of support by  ordinary Egyptians..  Given the recent  terrror attacks at  Eilat and  accusations that Israeli  forces while in pursuit of the terrorists  may have  shot and killed accidentally  five Egyptian border police  during the action tensions have risen dramatically in Cairo and other major cities in Egypt.  As a result, the Egyptian interim government called home its Ambassador in Tel Aviv.  That riggered mounting portests at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.   Egypt is still holding Ilan Grapel, a dual American-Israeli citizen who was arrested in June while touring Egypt and accused of spying on behalf of the Mossad..  Egypt,  with the condonment of Israel, sent more than 2000 troops and tanky scouring the Sinai Peninsula seeking  alleged Al Qaeda terrorists. Israel has deployed troops to the border with Egypt and has contracted for the construction of a virtual 120 mile long wall separating the two countries. The irony is that deep in the Sinai peninsula is a Multi-National Force and Observers  group (MFO) that was to act as a trip wire to avoid  possible conflicts. Among the  MFO contingent are US service personnel. That aspect of the  Egyptian Israeli peace treaty may have been voided  to allow Egyptian troops into the Sinai  as part of the hunt for al Qaeda and Palestinian terrorists. Egypt has also  arrested  four  Israelis sent to  guard commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aqaba.  Many have asked  whether the US-orchestrated peace treaty may have compounded the problem when it forced Israel to give up control of the Sinai peninsula, making Israel’s southern border increasingly vulnerable.  The Cold Peace appears to be heating up.

 

According to the FoxNews report, Israel’s Minister of Defense Ehud Barak contacted US Defense Secretary Leon Panetti asking for assistance to secure.the embassy,  Given the crowds of several thousand engaged in protests and ransacking the Israeli Embassy, the Egyptian military police were finally forced to send in troops, tanks and fire tear gas to disperse the mobs.  The Obama White House, which had high hopes for the Arab Spring in Egypt is now caught in the dilemma  of its own making trying to  resolve the untenable situation. This latest development comes just days before the looming unilateral declaration of Statehood for Palestine at the UN General Assembly sessions in Manhattan. .  However in Cairo things have spun out of control of the Supreme Military Council chief Tantwai, who succeeded the dethroned Mubarak. Now, he is the object of scorn by the mobs in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

 

The Cold Peace appears to be  rapidly heating up.

Looking for video on the storming of the Israeli embassy in Cairo today.

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News is rough for Israel. Add this to the open and irrational hostility from Turkey.

I suppose Obama did promise hope and change. I guess we should have asked for who.

I will add videos as I find them below:

Tearing the Israeli flag down at the embassy in Cairo Sept 9 2011

Thanks for the YNET news tip. Lots there, I have a long video from Al Jazeera but it will take me a bit of time to process.

The burning of the Israeli flag to chants of ‘Allahu Ackbar’

Egyptians storm Israeli embassy in Cairo

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 Please click over to the Google news link to see the rest of the images

By AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press – 8 hours ago

Some hundreds of Egyptian activists demolish a concrete wall built around a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, to protect it against demonstrators, as they raise their national Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Some hundreds of Egyptian activists demolish a concrete wall built around a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, to protect it against demonstrators, as they raise their national Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egyptian activists demolish a concrete wall built around a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, to protect it against demonstrators, Friday, Sept.9, 2011. Arabic reads " liberation of Palestine begin from Egypt" (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egyptian activists demolish a concrete wall built around a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, to protect it against demonstrators, Friday, Sept.9, 2011. Arabic reads " liberation of Palestine begin from Egypt" (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

CAIRO (AP) — A group of about 30 protesters broke into the Israeli Embassy in Cairo Friday and dumped hundreds of documents out of the windows, Egyptian and Israeli officials said.

Hundreds of protesters had been converging on the embassy throughout the afternoon and into the night, tearing down large sections of a security wall outside the 21-story building housing the embassy. Egyptian security forces made no attempt for hours to intervene.

Just before midnight, a group of protesters reached a room on one of the embassy’s lower floors at the top of the building and began dumping Hebrew-language documents from the windows, said an Egyptian security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

In Jerusalem, an Israeli official confirmed the embassy had been broken into, saying it appeared the group reached a waiting room on the lower floor. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to release the information.

No one answered the phone at the embassy late Friday.

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Israeli embassy in Egypt now has 2.5 meter wall.

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From AGI.IT

(AGI) Cairo – The governor of Cairo’s Giza district informs that protective barriers at the Israeli embassy have been completed. Tel Aviv’s representation in Cairo has been completely surrounded by a 2.5m high protective wall. The work was completed within the space of a week. . .

Egypt’s Brotherhood declares war on the bikini

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As noted before on Vlad, Islam means real history and archeology will suffer greatly. Islam considers all history of an area before it became Islamic as ‘the time of ignorance’ and often puts real effort into destroying archeological evidence of pre-Islamic civilizations in order to make the observations fit the fetishized pronouncements of the faith.

More often though, they just simply fail to do any research which is why it took a Frenchman to decode the Egyptian Hieroglyphs when Egypt was full of Coptic people’s who could have done it had the Islamic masters not considered them heresy of a false religion.

During the recent Tahrir square uprisings, we saw people entering museums and destroying ancient Egyptian artifacts and so on. This of course will become the norm soon and as the world, thanks to modern Western civilization, has the technology to destroy large things I predict the utter destruction of the pyramids and the sphinx once Islamists are firmly in control. After all, it would be no different than the massive stone buddhas in Afghanistan, once actually a Buddhist country and by choice.

From The Jerusalem Post

By DAVID E. MILLER / THE MEDIA LINE
08/28/2011 11:59

“Freedom and Justice” party leader: “We must place regulations on tourists wishing to visit Egypt.”

 

Sunbathing in Alexandria may soon be a thing of the past, at least if some Egyptian Islamist politicians have their way.Egypt’s tourism industry has suffered a severe blow since the outburst of anti-regime demonstrations in January. But that did not stop the Freedom and Justice Party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, from demanding stricter regulations over what tourists can do and wear while visiting the country. The party is urging officials to ban skimpy swimwear and the consumption of alcohol on Egyptian streets.

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“Beach tourism must take the values and norms of our society into account,” Muhammad Saad Al-Katatny, secretary-general of Freedom and Justice, told Egyptian tourism officials on Monday. “We must place regulations on tourists wishing to visit Egypt, which we will announce in advance.”

The call for new strictures on tourists comes as Egypt debates the role of Islam in the post-Mubarak era. Freedom and Justice is competing in elections scheduled for this autumn for parliament and opinion polls show a majority of Egyptians favor a greater use of Islamic law and mores. But a vocal minority worries that Egypt risks becoming an Islamic republic.

“This is how things began in Iran,” Hani Henry, a psychology professor at the American University in Cairo, told The Media Line. “The moderate youth wanted to implement changes, but the Mullah’s hijacked the revolution. The same thing is now happening here in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood. It makes me sick to my stomach.”

Along with Suez Canal tolls and energy exports, tourism is a major source of foreign exchange for Egypt. But with protests, strikes, and continued violence in the cities and Sinai Peninsula months after President Husni Mubarak was forced to step down, foreigners have hesitated to visit the country, which offers some of the world’s most spectacular antiquities as well as beaches and scuba diving. Continue Reading →

Interview with recently released terrorist and Islamic Brotherhood leader, Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato, on the future of Egypt

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Thanks Asaad Elepti for sending this link to quite a revealing MEMRI transcription of what may prove to be a very important interview, a portion of which is below and the rest can be read at MEMRI.ORG:

 

Senior Official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad: If We Come to Power, We will Launch a Campaign of Islamic Conquests to Instate Shari’a Worldwide: ‘The Christian is Free to Worship His God in His Church, but if the Christians Make Problems for the Muslims, I Will Exterminate Them’

 

On August 13, 2011, the Egyptian daily Roz Al-Yousef published an interview[1] with Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato, a senior official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), who, on March 23, 2011, was freed from prison in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. He was imprisoned in 1991 upon returning from a three-year sojourn in Afghanistan.

In the interview, Shehato expressed complete opposition to democracy “because it is not the faith of the Muslims, but the faith of the Jews and Christians.” He said that although the youth of the Arab revolutions have not declared the implementation of shari’a as one of their goals, the mujahideen nonetheless identify with their aspiration to overthrow the Arab rulers, whom they had always considered “infidels who must be killed because they do not rule according to the shari’a.” He added, however, that “once Allah’s law is applied, the role of the people will end and Allah will reign supreme.” He went on to say that although he supports Al-Qaeda’s ideology, shari’a law would not be enforced by violence but by da’wa (preaching), whereas violence would be used only against the infidel Arab rulers.

Shehato said that if the mujahideen came to power in Egypt, they would launch a campaign of Islamic conquests aimed at subjecting the entire world to Islamic rule. Muslim ambassadors would be appointed to each country, charged with calling upon them to join Islam willingly, but if the countries refused, war would be waged against them. He also described the nature of the Islamic state to be established in Egypt: there would be no trade or cultural ties with non-Muslims; tourist sites at the pyramids, the Sphinx, and Sharm Al-Sheikh would be shut down “because the tourists come [there] to drink alcohol and fornicate,” and all tourists wishing to visit Egypt would be required to comply with the conditions and laws of Islam; all art, painting, singing, dancing, and sculpture would be forbidden, and all culture would be purely Islamic.

Following are excerpts of the interview:


Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato

The Term “Democracy” is Not in the Arab or Islamic Lexicon; Once Allah’s Law Reigns Supreme, the People’s Role will End

Q: “Do you support the uprising?”

Shehato: “…The [Egyptian] youth rose up for a certain ideal…  They did not rise up in order to put the shari’a into practice, nor did they [complain] that Mubarak’s regime did not rule in accordance with the shari’a… As Muslims, we must believe that the Koran is our constitution, and that it is [therefore] impossible for us to institute a Western democratic regime. I oppose democracy because it is not the faith of the Muslims, but the faith of the Jews and Christians. Simply put, democracy means the rule of the people itself over itself… According to Islam, it is forbidden for people to rule and to legislate laws, as Allah alone is ruler. Allah did not hand down the term [democracy] as a form of rule, and it is completely absent from the Arab and Islamic lexicon…”

Q: “If you do not believe in the rule of the people, why did you go out to Al-Tahrir Square with the slogan ‘he People Wants to Implement the Shari’a?’ Are you exploiting democracy in order to achieve what you want [only] to then abolish [democracy]?”

Shehato: “I am not exploiting democracy, since I have never joined and will never join politics or party activity… We believe that implementation of the shari’a [must be accomplished] far from the political game, though some [other] Islamic streams are willing to participate [in this game] in order to achieve the same goal [i.e., implementation of the shari’a]. We said that ‘the people wants to implement the shari’a‘ because most of the people are Muslims, and also based on [our] reading of the situation on the ground. [At the same time,] we did not make demands for the people’s sake in the people’s name, but demanded the rule of Allah. And once Allah’s law is instated, the role of the people will end and Allah will reign supreme.”

Q: “How do you reconcile your opposition to the will of the people with the notion of shura [consultation] in Islam?”

Shehato: “‘Shura’ in Islam means that alongside the Muslim ruler, there is a steering council comprising the finest of the senior Muslim clerics, to be selected on the basis of their piety and political leadership [abilities]. But there is no consultation with commoners, such as workers and fallahin, nor is there consultation over issues that contravene the shari’a.”

“The Christian is Free to Worship His God in His Church, but if the Christians Make Problems for the Muslims, I Will Exterminate Them”

Q: “What solution is the EIJ suggesting [today], after the revolution?”

Shehato: “…We still espouse the old jihadi ideology that is today the ideology of Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the late Sheikh Osama bin Laden, and Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi… If the revolution was meant to overthrow the tyrant Mubarak, then we have always said that all the Arab rulers, without exception, are infidels who must be killed because they do not rule according to the shari’a. They are apostate infidels, as opposed to infidels like the Jews and Christians, and anyone who doubts that they are infidels is an infidel [himself].”

Q: “But we Egyptians have never regarded the Christians as infidels. [In fact,] many of us have Christian friends even closer than our Muslim friends.”

Shehato: “As a Muslim, I must support the Muslim and oppose the Christian. If there is a Christian who does me no harm, I will maintain limited contact with him. Islam [discusses] certain degrees of contact with the Christian, namely: keeping promises [that were made him], dealing honestly with him, treating him kindly, and befriending him. The first three are allowed, but the fourth [i.e., befriending the Christian] is deemed dangerous, for it contravenes the verse that says, ‘O you who believe! Do not take my enemy and your enemy for friends: would you offer them love while they deny what has come to you of the truth’ [Koran 60:1]. It is inconceivable that they should serve in judiciary or executive posts, for instance in the army or the police.”

Q: “Are you against blowing up churches?”

Shehato: “Yes and no. The Christian is free to worship his god in his church, but if the Christians make problems for the Muslims, I will exterminate them. I am guided by the shari’a, and it stipulates that they must pay the jizya tax while in a state of humiliation…”

Q: “These positions of yours frighten us, as Egyptians.”

Shehato: “I will not act [in ways] that contradict my faith just in order to please the people… We say to the Christians, convert to Islam or pay the jizya, otherwise we will fight you. The shari’a is not based on [human] logic but on divine law. That is why we oppose universal, manmade constitutions.”

 

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD THREATENS TO KILL ISRAELI AMBASSADOR AS EGYPT CALLS FOR MILLION MAN RALLY AGAINST JEWISH STATE

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There is the smell of blood in the air. The Muslims are getting uppity, like a bunch of orks sliding out of their clay pits, they’re demanding the blood of Jews. The borders of Israel haven’t been this restless since the 67′ and 73′ war. KGS

‘Zionist Envoy, Leave Egypt or Die,” Demonstrators Demand

he Muslim Brotherhood threatens to kill Israel’s ambassador to Cairo if he does not leave the country. “All of Egypt is Hamas.” More here.

Yep, they’re all a bunch of Orcs.

UPDATE: Truthiocity comes up with a better video of the Orcs Hamas.

Egyptians plan million-man rally against Israel

Facebook groups call for mass protest outside Israeli embassy in Cairo, as protesters demand ambassador be expelled, embassy be closed

Roee Nahmias

Egyptian daily al-Youm al-Saba’a reported Wednesday that Egyptian citizens have created groups on Facebook and other social networks calling for “a million-man protest” outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday.

The protesters say the focus of the demonstration will be the demand to have the Israeli ambassador expelled from Egypt and Israel’s embassy in the capital closed.

More here.

Egyptians plan million-man rally against Israel

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From YNET News:

Facebook groups call for mass protest outside Israeli embassy in Cairo, as protesters demand ambassador be expelled, embassy be closed

Roee Nahmias

Egyptian daily al-Youm al-Saba’a reported Wednesday that Egyptian citizens have created groups on Facebook and other social networks calling for “a million-man protest” outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday.

The protesters say the focus of the demonstration will be the demand to have the Israeli ambassador expelled from Egypt and Israel’s embassy in the capital closed.

 

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    The incident on the border stirred a diplomatic crisis between Jerusalem and Cairo. Egypt’s cabinet said on Sunday that an Israeli statement expressing regret for the border deaths was not enough, but it stopped short of saying if it would recall its Tel Aviv envoy. 

     

    The embassy protesters are demanding that the peace treaty with Israel be altered, especially with regards to military presence in Sinai, or completely abolished.

Egypt to withdraw envoy to Israel

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Breitbart

Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israelto protest the deaths of five policemen killed on the border during retaliatory attacks on Palestinian militants, state television said Saturday.”Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel until there is an official apology,” it said. Egypt’s military chief of staff, Sami Enan, headed to the Sinai on Friday to probe the deaths of the policemen killed a day earlier.