Except I can’t help it.
For the past few hours, I’ve been watching coverage of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. It has been very moving and brought tears to my eyes.
However, there doesn’t seem to be much of an acknowledgement of the fact that the war is not over. I may be crazy and it may be inappropriate to discuss at this time, but I can’t shake the feeling that something is missing.
Can recent events like the siege at the Israeli embassy in Cairo be just a total coincidence?
I have not heard so much as a mention of it in today’s news, so maybe it is irrelevant, but I am glad to see that M. Simon has a post. Looking at the big picture, he puts it simply:
I think this means war.
There is no question that Israel faces a “wider siege.”
“Egypt is not going toward democracy but toward Islamicization,” said Eli Shaked, a former Israeli ambassador to Cairo who reflected the government’s view. “It is the same in Turkey and in Gaza. It is just like what happened in Iran in 1979.”
Interestingly, Iran agrees with the Israeli assessment:
Commander of Iran’s Basij (volunteer) force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi lauded the Egyptian people for their attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo, and said the move resembles a similar raid by a number of Iranian students on the US embassy in Tehran in the early days after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
“This exceptional movement of the people in Cairo was inspired by Aban 13 (November 4) epic (the takeover of the former US embassy in Tehran in 1979) and is a reminder of the revolutionary zeal of the Islamic Iran’s students who courageously squashed the empty awe of the world arrogance,” Naqdi said on Saturday.
Today, September 11, Egypt’s biggest newspaper Al-Ahram Online, expressed broad solidarity with the attacks, featuring a propaganda piece by its “reporter” on the scene who literally, glowingly, praises the mob.
As to what the Islamist crowd calls the Great Satan, it is denying reports by Al-Ahram that the mob tried to break into the U.S. embassy.
While I hope the siege does not widen, there is no question that we are still at war.