“….Israel will have to pay.”-Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister
Turkey is still waiting for Israel to at least apologies for killing nine Turkish citizens in 2010. The Turkish citizens were trying to get aid to Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has blockaded Gaza for years.
Israel refuses to even apologize. Turkey used to be one of Israel’s strongest supporters in the region, but not anymore.
Egyptians in the city of Alexandria have joined those in Cairo in protesting Israel, and calling for action against the zionist country.
In Cairo one protestor climbed onto the Israeli embassy and torn down the Israeli flag, replacing it with the Egyptian flag.
In Jordan people have surrounded the Israeli embassy. They are demanding Israel stop attacking Palestinians.
“The Arab League received a request from the Palestinian state … and after negotiations it decided to host an urgent meeting on the level of the permanent representatives at 12 PM [Sunday].”-Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Arab League spokesman
The Arab League is holding an emergency meeting concerning the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza. This is in response to reports that Israel will increase attacks. The Arab League has 22 member countries.
The Israeli media is reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an emergency meeting, to discuss plans for escalating Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.
Egypt has already demanded Israel stop its aggression. The people of Egypt are demanding military action against Israel.
The Israelis say they must escalate attacks after one Israeli was killed in the early morning of August 21. This after Israel killed dozens of Palestinians and several Egyptians (and that doesn’t count people Israel killed in recent weeks, before this latest violence). I’ve said this before “Cry me a river Israel!!!”
International observers, tasked with the job of observing compliance with the 1979 peace treaty, between Israel and Egypt, say Israel has violated that treaty.
The 1979 peace treaty was mediated by the United States, and requires that Egypt and Israel do not attack each other. So far, after all these decades, Egypt has kept its promise. But now MFO (Multinational Force and Observer) officials say Israel broke the treaty.
MFO officials say not only did Israel attack Egyptian forces, but Israeli forces crossed into Egypt and fired on Egyptian forces from within Egyptian territory.
In related breaking news Egypt just issued a demand that Israel stop bombing the Palestinian territory know as Gaza: “Egypt denounces the use of force against civilians in any circumstance and strongly advises Israel to immediately stop its military operations against Gaza.”
“Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel until there is an official apology.”-Egyptian government statement
Egyptian officials say Israel killed at least five of their military personnel, who patrol the Israeli/Egypt border on a regular bases.
Egyptians are still protesting outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo: “This protest will not end as long as the Israeli embassy still has a place in Egypt. We will not leave here until they do, and if that fails, we will go back to Tahrir.”-protester
Egyptians also said they wanted relations with Israel ended, permanently. One protestor said Israel has killed Egyptian border troops before, and that the former Mubarak government always looked the other way. The protestors say they will no longer look the other way when Israel goes on the war path.
Live reporters in Gaza say all Palestinian factions have united and are retaliating against Israeli air strikes by launching rockets into Israel.
Officially Israel says they’ve launched 4 air strikes against Gaza, but live reporters said they counted at least 15 air strikes.
For the second time in less than two days, Israel has attacked Egyptian troops on the Gaza border. One soldier was killed, another is in a coma.
The first attack left at least three Egyptian troops dead.
Israeli officials have been heard saying they do not consider the border with Egypt “safe” and that they will shoot anyone moving near the border.
Reports from Cairo saying Egyptians have surrounded the Israeli embassy, demanding the Israeli ambassador leave. Israeli planes bombed Egyptian forces on the Gaza border. Three Egyptians were killed.
For several weeks Israeli air forces have been bombing Gaza and West Bank, the U.S. media ignored it. Israeli ground forces have conducted several raids into Lebanon, the U.S. media ignored it.
Then Israel say eight Israelis were killed in an attack on a bus, carrying Israeli soldiers and civilians, north of the Red Sea resort of Eilat. They use that attack to justify their current escalation of attacks against Gaza. They claim it was Hamas who attacked the tour bus. The U.S. media was all over it.
Here’s the problem, Gaza is nowhere near the resort of Eliat. Secondly, those who were attacked say the attackers were Egyptian soldiers, not Palestinians.
U.S. media went along with Israeli claims that the attackers were from Gaza. Again, an Israeli media interview with the driver of the tour bus, said that the attackers definitely came from an Egyptian border post, and were wearing Egyptian army uniforms.
Israel killed dozens of Palestinians in their attacks prior to the August 18th attack on the tour bus, and Israel has killed dozens more since they launched their “retaliatory” attacks on Gaza. Many of those killed by Israel are women and children.
The latest reports say that Israel has also attacked Egyptian troops, killing three. The report was made by the Egyptian government.
Of course Palestinians are now responding with their own rocket attacks against Israel. International journalists in the area say it looks like it could escalate into a full blown war. Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak is vowing a “full force” attack against Palestinians.
Just last week, I posted that Israeli officials stated they were going to go to war in September, to stop Palestine from becoming a recognized member of the United Nations, and to attack Syria.
When you look at the casualties that Israel has suffered, compared to the casualties Israel has caused, you’ll know who the real terrorist is. Cry me a river U.S. media, cry me a river Israel!!!
Israeli military industries have long had cooperative relationships with Chinese military industries. Now the Israeli government is making big moves towards wooing the Chinese government.
On August 14, General Chen Bingde, of China’s People’s Liberation Army, met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, in Tel Aviv. Barak visited China two months ago.
The Israelis are trying to win increased support from the Chinese. Possibly they realize the United States government is flat broke, and can’t continue to give Israel billions of the U.S. taxpayers’ money.
A Jewish commentator, Eran Shayshon, stated, on the same day that General Chen showed up in Israel, that Israel must adopt an “open tent” policy towards the BRIC economies. BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China. They’re the only countries with good economies.
This is the first time a Chinese military official has visited Israel. General Chen will be there for the next three days.