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Date: Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:44 PM
Subject: Fw: Israel braces itself for Arab Spring-style protests
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Subject: Fw: Israel braces itself for Arab Spring-style protests
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:27:43 +0100
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Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:27:43 +0100
Subject: Fw: Israel braces itself for Arab Spring-style protests
Israel braces itself for Arab Spring-style protests
Israel is bracing itself for Arab Spring-style protests after Ehud Barak, the country's defence minister, warned that an attempt by Palestinian refugees to storm its borders represented only the "beginning" of mass action against the Jewish state.
An Israeli soldier stands guard on the border between Syria and Israel during a demonstration by Syrian protesters marking 'Nakba' near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights Photo: REUTERS
By Adrian Blomfield, Jerusalem 12:31AM BST 17 May 2011
With outrage building across the Arab world, thousands gathered in Palestinian refugee camps across Syria and Lebanon to bury 14 protesters killed when a showdown on Israel's northern border ended in bloodshed.
There are now mounting fears that the wave of popular unrest sweeping the Middle East is likely to come to its shores.
"More difficult days await us," Mr Barak said. "The danger is that more mass processions like these will appear, not necessarily near the border, but also other places. We're only at the outset. We could see more complex thins and more complex challenges in this area."
Israeli concerns that it would face wider international condemnation were partly allayed as the White House blamed Syria for "inciting" the demonstrations and defended Israel's right to protect its borders.
The Israeli government insists that its forces showed restraint despite shooting dead four refugees who cut their way through a fence marking the ceasefire line between Syria and the occupied Golan heights, captured by Israel in 1967.
Ten people were killed on Lebanese soil during a simultaneous protest by Palestinian refugees demanding the right to return to homes lost during previous wars with Israel, but Israeli officials said four of them were killed by Lebanese troops.
Although Israel views itself as the sole democracy in the Middle East, the border protests were organised in much the same way as the revolts that swept aside authoritarian leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, with activists coordinating their actions through social networking websites.
Many in the Arab world are unlikely to distinguish between the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of Israeli troops and the bloody subjugation of protests in Syria, however unfair Israel may find such comparisons.
Egyptian police used teargas and live fire to disperse protests outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, declared three days of mourning across the West Bank and Gaza.
Israeli forces yesterday fired warning shots at a Malaysian aid ship trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza. Preparations are underway to send a major flotilla to the territory more than a year after nine Turkish activists were killed when Israeli commandos stormed a ship trying to reach Gaza.
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