Erdogan ups the ante: For a guy who doesn’t want to go to war, he sure is talking all warlike and all that. Funny how he always says this on al Jazeera, and when called on it says he was misquoted. Like when he said Turkish naval vessels would escort the next flotilla. Or how he said he would visit Gaza when he visits Egypt this month but then backed off.
Egypt, the Iran wannabe: Decision time for Egypt. Ignore international precedents and laws and allow your Islamist, genocidal mobs to try to murder Israeli embassy staff and destroy the embassy, or join the civilized world and protect them from the rabid mob? You decide. Arresting some of the mob is a good start. Not letting them into the building in the first place would have been better.
How long before Obama calls in this favor? While I don’t agree with the people who think that Obama is anti-Israel, as shown by his critical help in stopping the Egyptian mob from killing Israeli security guards, I’m sure that he won’t let this opportunity pass to then pressure Netanyahu into agreeing with something bad for Israel. Wait for it. Oh, P.S.: If you’re the titular head of a country, and your mobs are endangering other nations’ embassies, you should probably answer your phone. Asshat.
The New York Times: Always finding new ways to blame the Jews. It makes you wonder if they were writing editorials in the thirties blaming German Jews for bringing down the Nuremberg Laws on themselves. Today’s editorial? It’s Israel’s fault that Mahmoud Abbas is trying to get the UN to unilaterally declare a state. But then, coming from the paper that pays the man who said we should be ashamed for our reactions to 9/11 and that George W. Bush “cashed in on the horror” (yes, exact words, see for yourself), nothing the Times prints anymore can surprise me.