JoshuaPundit on another Egyptian mob attack on Israeli embassy (UPDATED)

Egyptians Storm Israeli Embassy, Tear Down Israeli Flag For The Second Time

Egyptian mobs assaulted the Israeli embassy in Cairo again, demolishing parts of the wall erected around the building by the Egyptian government to protect it after the last incident, when anti-Israel demonstrators attacked the building and removed the Israeli flag from the roof.

Today's activity was sparked by a Facebook call for Egyptians to gather and 'urinate against the wall of the embassy'. Predictably, it also occurred on Friday, after the mosques preached the expected sermons.

The huge crowd demolished the wall while policemen and soldiers stood by, according to eyewitnesses.

They then stormed the embassy premises and ripped down the flag from the building for the second time in less than a month. Eyewitnesses reported that the protesters threw the flag on the street and trampled it to loud cheers by the assembled mob.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, no embassy personnel were injured, but it wasn't for want of trying. The mob got in to the high rise building where the embassy is located, but were unable to get through the fortified door to the embassy itself.

In view of what's going on in Egypt ( and this is by no means an isolated incident), the Israelis need to face up to a few facts:

1. The Camp David Accords and the Israel-Egypt peace accords are over. The Egyptians have already pocketed the territorial gains in Sinai and have no further need for it, and the only thing that kept in going this long was Hosni Mubarak's hatred of the Islamists who murdered his predecessor Anwar Sadat.

2. Moreover, by giving up the Sinai the Israelis provided 'proof' to the Egyptian street that the myth Sadat and Mubarak told them - that Egypt won the 1973 Yom Kippur War - was true. Winners don't give up territory for peace, especially not in the Arab mind.

3. The elections in Egypt which are scheduled to take place later this month will almost certainly see the Muslim Brotherhood in political dominance. Since Egypt's economic condition remains dire, the traditional use of Israel as a scapegoat and distraction is almost a given. A future war might end of being an extension of this.

Given the inherent nature of Islam and its stance on Jews, real peace between Israel and any Arab nation is a fantasy, at least at this time. This latest demonstration of 'peace', taking place in a country Israel has supposedly had peaceful relations with for over forty years is a good indication of that.

Israel had better plan accordingly. So had the West.

FP: Israel and the West had better, but I'm afraid they won't. Incidentally, also at JoshuaPundit see Soccer Dad's Mideast Media Sampler 9/09/11‏ for the mindlessness of Thomas Friedman.

UPDATE: PowerLine (Hope and Change In Egypt) has posted images and more details from the events:

We wrote here about the first hostile demonstration by Egyptians outside Israel’s embassy in Cairo, and here about the Egyptian government’s erecting a wall around the embassy to protect it from future attacks–claiming, however, that it was acting to protect Egyptian neighbors, not Israelis.

That was only four days ago. It didn’t take long for Egypt’s mob to take matters into its own hands. Today, rioters tore down the wall, invaded the embassy, assaulted Israelis they found inside, and looted the embassy’s contents, all without interference from Cairo’s police:

Egyptian police made no attempt to intervene during the day as crowds of hundreds tore down an embassy security wall with sledgehammers and their bare hands or after nightfall when about 30 protesters stormed into the Nile-side high-rise building where the embassy is located.
Just before midnight, the 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….
For the second time in less than a month, protesters were able to get to the top of the building and pull down the Israeli flag.

This photo shows rioters demolishing the wall:

 

The scene was obviously very dangerous:

The group got into the building through a third-floor window and climbed the stairs to the embassy. They worked for hours to break through three doors to enter the embassy, said the 28-year-old man. They encountered three Israelis and beat one of them.

This was the hellish scene outside the embassy after nightfall:

 

The peril was such that the Israeli ambassador and his family are fleeing the country:

Egyptian airport officials say the Israeli ambassador is at Cairo’s airport waiting for a military plane to evacuate him from the country after protesters broke into Israel’s Embassy.
The officials say other Israelis were also waiting for the evacuation flight to take them back to Israel early Saturday.

Will something good eventually come from the “Arab spring”? I don’t know. But this sort of descent into barbarism does not bode well.

 

FP: There is almost universal  unwillingness to accept what many of us argued it was highly predictable. There is a reason practically all Arab states were dictatorships: they were necessary to stifle all the (unwarranted) hope and change existing only in Western wishful thinking. We said that the PostWest will be a nightmare, and it is.

 

Incidentally, I have a strong suspicion (which I mentioned in the past) that Obama's way to cut out that "wound" in the Middle East, Israel, was to scare Israel into succumbing to his pressure and cave in to the Arabs in order "not to lose America. The "Arab  spring", Turkish Islamization, Palestinian UN statehood, all these are means to achieve that. And with the current leadership in Israel it's not impossible.