Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Turkish PM: Israel is 'spoiled boy'

Update: http://bit.ly/nDuTSW
Turkey is saying they will escort future aid ships into gaza.

Bout time someone called like it is.
This one is really starting to heat up. An item to keep an eye on. There are sanctions in place. Talk of more to come. And a rumored visit to gaza by the Turk president.

So it seems that the Israeli ambassador to Egypt was chased right out of the country. Protesters in cairo attacked the isreali embassy. Using sledge hammers the broke through a wall and stormed the building. The isreali ambassador and his family had already been evacuated at this point.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/world/middleeast/10egypt.html?_r=1&hp

Now here us what strikes me ad interesting. In recent weeks egypts military. Which for the moment is in total contol of the country. Have very quickly and firmly shut down student demonstration in tahir square. Peaceful rallies. Yet in come troops. Shut it down. Yet here us a violent attack on a foreign dignitary and absolutely no military response. They sat back and let it happen. We are seeing a major shift in power. It seems clear that both turkey and Egypt are drifting away from isreal. And towards their Muslim counterparts. To some degree this is just internal politics. Supporting isreal was never popular with the average egyptian. So the military council gains public support by snubbing isreal.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/09/06/israel.turkey/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

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