Israel Surrounded as Arab Spring Turns Darker: Jeffrey Goldberg
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Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Middle East is plunging towardcrisis. The early promise of Tahrir Square has been supplantedby dismay that the Egyptian authorities -- such as they are --allowed mobs to lay siege to the Israeli embassy in Cairo thispast weekend.
Not long ago, Turkey and Israel were strategic partners.Now, relations between those two key U.S. allies are in ruins.When a recent United Nations report on the deadly confrontationbetween the Israeli military and a flotilla of Gaza-boundactivists that sparked this crisis largely exonerated Israel,Turkey reacted by threatening to send warships to the easternMediterranean.