Conley
09-18-2011, 09:51 AM
JERUSALEM — As summer ends, Israel has become regionally isolated like at no other time in the past 35 years.
Anxiety and alarm seem to define reactions in Jerusalem as Israel momentarily found itself abruptly without an ambassador stationed in the capital of any of its three regional allies: Jordan, Egypt and Turkey, the latter of which expelled the ambassador following Israel’s refusal to apologize for the flotilla raid in which Turkish citizens lost their lives.
Some observers view this moment as a Rubicon from which Israel will not be able to turn back.
AS ISRAEL FINDS ITSELF ISOLATED, DISSENT WITHIN THE COUNTRY GROWS: Demonstrators pack the streets on September 3, 2011 in Tel Aviv, Israel. An estimated 400,000 Israelis protested across the country against rising housing prices and social inequalities in the Jewish state.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/israel-and-palestine/110917/the-end-israel-we-know-it
I didn't know they were having such huge protests there also. Seems every country is protesting / rioting except the good ol U.S. of A. I think that's more due to the fact we just don't do those sorts of things for whatever reason (laziness? the way our country is so spread out? I dunno). I did see 50,000 people showed up to the National Day of Outrage or something like that.
Anxiety and alarm seem to define reactions in Jerusalem as Israel momentarily found itself abruptly without an ambassador stationed in the capital of any of its three regional allies: Jordan, Egypt and Turkey, the latter of which expelled the ambassador following Israel’s refusal to apologize for the flotilla raid in which Turkish citizens lost their lives.
Some observers view this moment as a Rubicon from which Israel will not be able to turn back.
AS ISRAEL FINDS ITSELF ISOLATED, DISSENT WITHIN THE COUNTRY GROWS: Demonstrators pack the streets on September 3, 2011 in Tel Aviv, Israel. An estimated 400,000 Israelis protested across the country against rising housing prices and social inequalities in the Jewish state.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/israel-and-palestine/110917/the-end-israel-we-know-it
I didn't know they were having such huge protests there also. Seems every country is protesting / rioting except the good ol U.S. of A. I think that's more due to the fact we just don't do those sorts of things for whatever reason (laziness? the way our country is so spread out? I dunno). I did see 50,000 people showed up to the National Day of Outrage or something like that.