Imagine if in 1938 German police had stopped the brutal attacks on Jews during Kristallnacht. Think back to these terrible events and you have some idea of the different world we are living in. Just recently, Egyptian police vigorously held back an attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. 353 of the mob were hurt, and one critically. The reason for their rampage? Israel's victory over its aggressors in 1948.
Egypt police fire at rally outside Israel Embassy
BY: AP PHOTO
Demonstrators burn an Israeli flag near the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, May 15, 2011. Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters Sunday along three hostile borders, including the frontier with Syria, leaving several people dead and dozens wounded in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations marking the Palestinian "nakba," or "catastrophe", day of mourning for their defeat at Israel's hands in 1948.
Egyptian riot police fired tear gas and live ammunition overnight to disperse thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, and a security official said Monday that at least 185 demonstrators were arrested over allegations of attacking police and vandalism.
The rally in Cairo followed calls on Facebook for Arabs to march on Israel on Sunday in support of the Palestinians, who were holding annual ceremonies marking the "nakba," or "catastrophe" — the term Palestinians use to describe their defeat and displacement in the war surrounding Israel's 1948 founding.
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