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Titolo: Israel's 'Diplomatic Tsunami' Has Arrived, As Ambassadors Are Forced to Leave Turkey and Egypt

ROTFL!  Prima spernacchiano pubblicamente Obama, facendosi forti del 
loro ascendente sul Congresso, e poi chiedono il suo aiuto quando le 
cose si mettono male.
 
Comprensibilmente, Obama si è limitato a fare una telefonata formale.
 
Questi sono leader viziati, violenti e mollicci, avvezzi ad essere 
coperti sempre e comunque, a non rispondere mai delle loro azioni.
 
E' una brutta situazione, ma non si tratta di una situazione dovuta ad 
una sfortunata congiuntura: è piuttosto il frutto del pervicace impegno 
di una diaspora miope, accecata dal nazionalismo.
 
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Israel's 'Diplomatic Tsunami' Has Arrived, As Ambassadors Are Forced to 
Leave Turkey and Egypt
Posted by Tony Karon Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 12:30 pm
 
As a raucous mob of protestors on Friday stormed past passive Egyptian 
policemen, breaching the wall around Israel's Cairo embassy and sacking 
the unsecured parts of the building, Israel turned for help to the Obama 
Administration. Looking to the U.S. to shield it from international 
opprobrium has become a familiar pattern for Israel in recent years, but 
the result was telling: President Obama got on the phone with the 
Egyptians and ensured a restoration of order that allowed the safe and 
orderly evacuation of the Israeli embassy. But nobody expects the 
ambassador, who flew home late Friday on an emergency flight, to return 
to Cairo any time soon. The best Washington was able to was to 
ameliorate the damage -- just as it had tried (but failed) to do amid 
mounting tensions between Israel and Turkey that led Ankara to expel 
Israel's ambassador last week. And, of course, the U.S. has also failed 
to bully or bribe the Palestinians into stopping their bid for 
recognition of statehood at the U.N. later this month in what would be 
an international vote of no-confidence in the U.S.-led peace process.
 
The wave of people-power rebellion that has swept across the Middle East 
over the past year has left Israel increasingly isolated as newly 
empowered Arab publics reject the passive tolerance of Israel's 
treatment of the Palestinians and acceptance of U.S. regional authority 
that had been hallmarks of the regimes like that of President Hosni 
Mubarak. Even before the Arab rebellion, Turkey -- its own government 
more responsive to public opinion than any in modern Turkish history -- 
had taken a lead in breaking with the Oslo-era consensus, under which 
European and Arab nations tacitly accepted that the Israeli-Palestinian 
file was the exclusive preserve of the United States. Ankara had 
challenged Israel's collective punishment of the Palestinians of Gaza, 
to the point of backing a flotilla to defy the blockade of the 
territory, which culminated in the Israeli raid on the Maavi Marmara in 
which nine Turks and a Turkish-American were killed. Israel's refusal to 
apologize for those deaths prompted Turkey to downgrade diplomatic ties 
last week.
 
Turkey's move, and its promise to mount an aggressive diplomatic 
campaign in support of the Palestinians' U.N. bid for statehood in 
September had seemed to signal the arrival of the "diplomatic tsunami" 
that Defense Minister Ehud Barak had warned was bearing down on Israel 
in September. (Barak, of course, had been trying -- in vain -- to warn 
the Netanyahu government that forestalling the deluge required urgent 
and dramatic concessions on Israel's part to restart the peace process.)
 
It had been widely predicted that Egypt -- whose interim military junta 
is under pressure from mounting public anger over the pace and content 
of the post-Mubarak transition, and which has sought to relieve that 
pressure through symbolic concessions such as putting Mubarak on trial 
-- would find it difficult to resist popular demands that it follow the 
Turkish lead. While the Egyptian military is likely to resist any 
pressure to repudiate the 1979 Camp David peace treaty with Israel, it 
looks increasingly unlikely to maintain Mubarak's tactical alliance with 
the Israelis. But even before the generals could decide whether a 
diplomatic downgrade was another of the symbolic concessions it could 
make to its ever-restive public, the crowd that gathered outside 
Israel's embassy -- outraged by Israel's recent killing of Egyptian five 
border guards during a hot-pursuit action against militants who had 
staged a terror attack across the Egypt-Israel border, and by what they 
saw as the generals' feckless response -- decided to force the junta's hand.
 
The U.S. by virtue of its annual stipend to the Egyptian military can 
ensure that they keep the peace, but it can't persuade Middle Eastern 
governments responsive to the will of their own citizens to follow the 
U.S. diplomatic line on Israel. Still, Egypt's interim rulers can't 
afford the spectacle of chaos and the violation of international law and 
diplomatic norms on display in Friday's embassy storming, and the "state 
of alert" declared by the generals on Saturday may portend a wider 
crackdown on protest action.
 
But for Israel, it's a harsh reminder of Washington's diminishing 
ability to protect it from the diplomatic consequences of its own 
domestic political surge to the right over the past decade. An 
eleventh-hour Obama Administration effort to prevent the breakdown with 
Turkey by brokering an agreement that would involve an Israeli apology 
for the deaths aboard the Maavi Marmara was scuppered when Netanyahu was 
dissuaded from apologizing by his right-wing foreign minister, Avigdor 
Lieberman. And Netanyahu has given Washington and the Europeans precious 
little to work with in their efforts to forestall a diplomatic 
confrontation at the U.N. later this month. That's why many Israelis 
worry, with good reason, that the departure of their ambassadors to 
Cairo and Ankara in the space of a single week are a grim portent of 
things to come -- and the fact that the U.S. may not be able to much 
more for them diplomatically than FEMA had done for the residents of New 
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
 
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/09/10/israels-diplomatic-tsunami-has-arrived-as-ambassadors-are-forced-to-leave-turkey-and-egypt/#ixzz1XaG3Myjw
 
 
-- 
Sostieni Rete ECO
 
http://rete-eco.it/it/sostienici.html
 
 

 Comprensibilmente, Obama si è limitato a fare una telefonata formale.
 
O probabilmente no.
La scomposta rosicata del pirla antisemita resta anche per questo
assolutamente impagabile.
 
(Bello e sereno il discorso di Bibi, BTW)
 
 
 
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recoil is insignificant when there is a tiger on the head of your elephant

 di una diaspora miope, accecata dal nazionalismo.
ecco, adesso, tutti insieme, cacciamo i cattivi dalla classe.

 No. Attaccare una ambasciata e' un crimine.
 
anche ammazzare 5 poliziotti egiziani è un crimine.

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e attaccare una ambasciata, in retaliation, e' quindi giusto?