HEADLINES FROM THE HEBREW PRESS

HA’ARETZ:1. ENRAGED MOB OCCUPIES EMBASSY IN CAIRO

Six security guards, who were under siege for hours, rescued by Egyptian commandos and saved from lynching. 80 diplomatic staff members flown home. Netanyahu thanks Obama for help in resolving crisis.

 

1. Senior source close to Obama: „We were minutes away from an awful tragedy.”

PEACE UNDER ATTACK

Enraged Egyptian mob breaks into Israeli Embassy in Cairo. One door separated between six Israeli security guards and a lynching. PM managed crisis and enlisted President Obama. Egyptian commandos rescued those inside and prevented disaster.

 

1. Siege in Cairo: Thus the Israeli Embassy fell.

SIX ISRAELIS AGAINST THOUSANDS

For hours, six security guards barricaded themselves in a small room, with only a steel door separating between them and the mob. (…). Only following Obama’s intervention, Egyptian commandos rescued those under siege. Netanyahu: We will work to send our ambassador back to Cairo.

 

1. One door separated between life and death for six Israeli Embassy security guards. Netanyahu: „The peace is important; I will work to send our ambassador back to Cairo.”

„IF THEY BREAK IN – SHOT”

This was the instruction that security guards received after thousands of protestors threatened to lynch them. In coordination with Jerusalem: Egyptian commandos rescued them in dramatic operation.

 

1. EGYPT PERPLEXED: „THEY SHOWED CONTEMPT FOR OUR SOVEREIGNTY AND ATTACKED OUR GUESTS”

Cairo continues to strongly condemn storming of Israeli Embassy. (…).

 

2. SECURITY SOURCE: COORDINATION WITH EGYPTIAN ARMY REMAINS AS IT WAS

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1. REPORT: JORDAN REINFORCING ISRAELI EMBASSY

Day after thousands stormed embassy in Cairo, Jordanians are not taking any chances. Witnesses report armored reinforcements at general security units posted near embassy. Opposition groups calling for expulsion of Israeli diplomats.

 

2. NETANYAHU: WE WILL CONTINUE TO GUARD PEACE WITH EGYPT

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3. KASSAM ROCKET LANDS IN ASHKELON COAST REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA; PALESTINIANS: IDF ATTACKED

 

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Yediot Ahronot discusses the seemingly imminent Palestinian application to the UN for official recognition. The author contends that, „Those responsible are all those Israeli citizens who believed that the world is an idiot. That it would allow the return of Zion to Sebastia, Beit Ur al-Tahta and al-Pokin. That they are smarter than everyone, could trick everyone. And in this fashion the world let us be for about forty years, and now it is about to exact a price.”

 

Ma’ariv suggests that, „In order to destroy the peace between Israel and Egypt there is no need for millions. One hundred with determination will suffice. The problem is that, instead of declaring war on the lunacy, the free world suffers from paralysis. We are in the era in which there is no crime without an intellectual who will find an excuse for it.”

 

Yisrael Hayom reminds us that, „After one decade: Al-Qaeda is still with us.” The authors assert that, „Only a combination of an operational-intelligence struggle together with a struggle of ideas against the violence championed by the Salafi Jihad religious schools, is likely to bring about the termination of the infestation which Al-Qaeda and its followers have succeeded in spreading.”