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Israel got its first real taste of the Arab spring Sunday as tens of thousands of Palestinians and their supporters amassed on its borders to protest its creation 63 years ago – an event they refer to as the "nakba," or catastrophe. Ten people were killed and hundreds injured as some protesters attempted to breach Israel's borders and clashes broke out with Israeli security forces.

The unprecedented protests, fueled by both a spirit of uprising and a moribund peace process, have reignited Arab-Israeli tensions over Israel's sovereignty even as Palestinians are pressing for international recognition of their own sovereignty at the UN this fall.

Arabs – and perhaps their leaders, eager to deflect criticism of their own regimes – are rallying to the Palestinian cause with the same fervor that has toppled two presidents and caused several regimes to teeter.

Israeli officials accused the governments of Lebanon and Syria of encouraging the protesters to reach the borders. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, they said, may have seen a reprieve in shifting the violence toward Israel after cracking down for weeks on domestic unrest against his authoritarian rule.  key

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Monday praised those who demonstrated at the Lebanese-Israeli border and said their "right of return" – the right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes that are now within Israel's borders – would come soon, the Jerusalem Post reported.

    “We must bow before the courage, the bravery, of those who protested yesterday at Lebanon and Syria’s borders with occupied Palestine, who faced the tyranny of the enemy with bare chests and their heads held high,” Nasrallah said in a Hezbollah statement quoted by AFP.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said those who died in the clashes were martyrs for the Palestinian cause.

i think turkey helped blunt much of this. the freedom flotilla was set to sail from turkey to coincide with nakba day, but the turks turned around and told them they had to wait until after their june 20th election. had those ships sailed, and there was another boarding operation, i think it would've been much worse. however, i wouldn't go so far as to say this is over now.

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Its just begun.  Israel is surrounded by people that hate it.  And as long as Palestinians teach their children to hate Jews, there will never be any real lasting peace.

The following is not an isolated incident.  Palestinian children are being taught to hate jews in their schools.  Is it any wonder that many kids go out and provoke attacks, throw rocks at police and troops, and/or join terrorist groups?

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To be honest, sometimes I think that if Israel didn't exist the Arab states would have to invent it as a way to keep the rabble (oops, sorry, their fellow countrymen) distracted from the oppressive conditions that their leaders keep them in:

people: "we want more democracy and freedom of representation! Down with the corrupt regime!"
dictator: "Look over there, an israeli is being nasty to a palestinian"
people: "Where? get him!"

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Originally Posted by Kieran Colfer:

people: "we want more democracy and freedom of representation! Down with the corrupt regime!"
dictator: "Look over there, an israeli is being nasty to a palestinian"
people: "Where? get him!"

now put the two together miles. now you have islamic "democratic" movements all around, whereby the rabble is coming to power. for the dictators, it became bad business making war with israel. after all, much like organized crime, they were in it to make money, and increase their power. not to drive tanks across the sinai or the golan heights. but now, the old rules are getting tossed out the window. now, those very people who say "where? get him!" are the same people taking the reigns.

it started with hamas' rise in gaza. then it was hisbollah in lebanon. and those were precursors to the "arab spring" taking place in egypt and north africa, and spread into the gulf. and all the while iran has been behind the scenes, spreading its influence against the other regional power of saudi arabia. they already own syria, hizbollah, and hamas. all of those areas are under their influence, which is why syria has put down it's uprising thanks to iranian help (who themselves beat down their own uprising this year and last. and of course they took advantage of the situation in egypt (perhaps even helped facilitate it) by sailing their warships to lebanon through the suez canal (a proclamation).

read this, it will flip you out.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2011/01/iran_the_muslim_brotherhood_an.php

and especially this

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2011/05/16/ben-stein-links-muslim-brotherhood-hitler-sees-mistake-us-not-support

click on the link detailing the brotherhoods close ties with nazi germany during WWII. did you know about that? why do you think it is  you hear so many muslim clerics and leaders talking about finishing what hitler started?

this whole death to israel thing is more than just a slogan.

what do all of these signs point to? it's what  

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Of course its more than just a slogan.  The Jews are in a very real danger of experiencing another holocaust.  And they are about to be surrounded by a Caliphate that hates them.  Sad thing is, much of Europe hates them too and the UN is useless and corrupt, so no help there.  If we continue to turn our backs on them, then what?