Israeli embassy in Cairo under attack
So much for that "Arab Spring". So much for the glorification of the Egyptian revolution. This is a breaking story.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/09/09/egyptians-ransack-building-housing-israel-embassy/?test=latestnews
How long will it be before our own embassy in Cairo gets stormed? And what will the current administration do if it happens?
I wonder what Jimmy Carter is thinking right now as his one achievement goes up in smoke.
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There goes Gary again with his totalitarian categories. A mob ranging from hundreds to a few thousand perpetrates a violent outrage, and that's it for democracy in a nation of tens of millions of people.
Let's see, after the lynching in Sikeston, Missouri in 1942, it was all over for American democracy, and people realized that Hitler was the real hope for the world. Oh, and the lynchings and mob rioting in Omaha Nebraska around 1900, that didn't end until the army was called in, everyone knew the American experiment in democracy had failed. Soon after, the territory of the failed revolution was merged with Canada by the returning British officials.
No, no, says Gary, that's too long AFTER the revolution to be analagous. OK, how about the Continental Army being on the verge of taking over what passed for a national government, because they were angry at not getting paid?
This kind of heightened hostility toward Israel is the result of two factors:
1) The government isn't delivering on the changes people demanded in the first place, so anger is bursting in all kinds of directions, Israel being a natural lightning rod, and,
2) The U.S., Israel, and Israel's so-called friends, are so busy being afraid of how things MIGHT go in Egypt without the reliable Mubarak dictatorship, that the people consider all of the above with growing hostility.
When a spontaneous popular uprising happens, those who are concerned about what direction it will take get out in front. It is a losing strategy to sit on the sidelines and carp about how badly it will go.
One might say that this attack in the Israeli embassy is your fault Gary, if I thought you had any real influence on world events.
Only Siarlys could take an incident in Egypt in 2011 and relate it to Omaha, nebraska in 1900.
PS: Actually, I may have goofed. My top photo may actually be that Longshoreman union riot in Washington state.(LOL)
Egypt will be taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood. They have hijacked the Arab Spring for Egypt and are inserting themselves into position to bring about an Islamic Republic in Egypt.
This is just one sign that they are calling the shots. The other is the systematic attacks on the Copts. (Remember Egypt has gotten rid of its Jews.)
Israel does have a reply to the Egyptian attacks on its Embassy: A message to the Egyptian people
I do hope someone with some intelligence and understanding listens to that message and does the right thing.
Add Findalis to the misanthrope list. She is so determined to be right that she would rather see Israel go up in flames than see democracy burst forth in Egypt. When the Muslim Brotherhood take over, she will feel vindicated, rather than remorseful.
P.S. Only Gary could take the reasoning of a Supreme Court justice for restraining police from arresting couples engaged in private consenting homosexual conduct, and relate it to the danger of "creeping Shariah."
I've been saying this a lot lately: what makes sense all depends on whose foot the shoe is on.
"P.S. Only Gary could take the reasoning of a Supreme Court justice for restraining police from arresting couples engaged in private consenting homosexual conduct, and relate it to the danger of "creeping Shariah."
I've been saying this a lot lately: what makes sense all depends on whose foot the shoe is on."
Siarlys, you must have three feet. Or are you on the wrong thread?
Siarlys,
Who is talking about cops busting gay couples here? But since you brought it up, you might check out shariah's punishment for homosexuality.
@ Siarlys:
In 1979 the Iranian people threw off the shackles of the Shah. And for 30 days there was the great hope of democracy in the land.
After 30 days, Ayatollah As-Sayyid Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini returned to Iran and took control of the country (against the wishes of the majority of the people). We know how that worked out.
The nation of Egypt didn't even get 30 days before the Muslim Brotherhood came out of the woodwork.
The history of the Middle East is filled with such things. To have a democracy you first need a tradition of democracy. No Muslim nation has ever had such a tradition.
Dear, dear, Gary, you've lost track of your own thread. YOU were the one who ranted about Supreme Court justices willing to be guided by foreign legal precedent. Nobody has taken more flak over that from what pathetically passes for "conservatives" in this nation than Justice Anthony Kennedy. In no case did he take more of this flak than Lawrence v. Texas, which established that states have no business criminalizing private consenting homosexual conduct. If you are going to attempt sophisticated argument, you really ought to read up on the material relevant to your position.
But moving on to more interesting aspects of the Arab spring, I just read that Qadaffi has relatives in Israel who have invited him to come join them there! Gita Boaron lives in Netanya, a village of Libyan Jewish immigrants. The founder of a center that promotes Libyan-Jewish culture in Israel remembers that Qadaffi used to attend Jewish weddings in the 1960s. A widow sipping her macchiato in one of the town's Libyan cafes remarked "After all, he's a Jew." It is good to know that there is so much diversity among the world's Jewish population, and even in Israel.
Siarlys,
This thread is about the Israeli embassy in Cairo not to do with anything about the US Supreme Court and other laws. Different post.
I hadn't realized you were schizophrenic Gary. I had assumed, silly me, that a consistent set of principles animated ALL posts at Fousesquawk, and that what you wrote on one post would be, at least in your own mind, consistent or, not in direct conflict, with what you wrote on another post. I must have missed out on how compartmentalized your mind is.
At the very least, I thought a post about the dangers of "creeping Shariah" and a post about how the revolution in Egypt is endangering Israel, might have spring from a common thought process. Are there two of you? Three? Five?
And I suppose that a post about the Arab Spring in Cairo has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the Arab Spring in Libya, which every UC Santa Cruz community studies major KNOWS is on the other side of the world from Egypt! Too bad... the article had such a cute cartoon of a Jewish mother beaming with pride at her prodigal son come home from Libya...
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