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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 12-Sep-2011
12-Sep-11 World View -- Egypt reacts to storming of Cairo's Israeli embassy

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12-Sep-11 World View -- Egypt reacts to storming of Cairo's Israeli embassy

Russia claimed fall of Gaddafi was a hoax in an al-Jazeera TV studio

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com.

* Egypt reacts to storming of Cairo's Israeli embassy
* Erdogan's Israel stance may determine Turkey's growing regional role
* World Bank: Palestinians headed for an 'acute fiscal crisis'
* Saadi al-Gaddafi flees to Niger from Libya in widening family split
* Russia claimed fall of Gaddafi was a hoax in an al-Jazeera TV studio

Egypt reacts to storming of Cairo's Israeli embassy

Burning of Israeli flag (Ahram)

Burning of Israeli flag (Ahram)

Egypt's military police have arrested 92 more protesters on Sunday for the storming of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, bringing the total number of detainees to 130. Friday's attack on the embassy has caused a crisis in Egypt's post-revolution government, and threatens to reverse many of the political gains of the popular uprising. In particularly, emergency laws that were abolished after the uprising are being reinstated, at a time when crime is rising all around. The attack may also serve as an excuse to postpone the elections. Al Masry Al Youm (Cairo) and Reuters

Erdogan's Israel stance may determine Turkey's growing regional role

In a Middle East transformed by war and revolution, Turkey is playing a growing role in issues such as the Palestinian campaign for statehood, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan is currently in Egypt, and plans to travel to Libya and Tunisia as well, to sign lucrative trade deals in all three post-revolution countries. Erdogan's success in becoming arguably the region's most prominent leader is related to Turkey's unique role of being part of both the Arab world and the European world. But his belligerent policies towards Israel may endanger Turkey's relationship with the West, as well has Erdogan's rise to power. Bloomberg

World Bank: Palestinians headed for an 'acute fiscal crisis'

The Palestinian economy will grow by 7% this year, down from 9% in 2010, according to a new report by the World Bank, which predicts an "acute fiscal crisis," even as the Palestinians ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state. Donations to the Palestinian Authority (PA) from other countries were expected to come to $967 million in 2011, but in the first half of the year, the PA only received $293 million. The budget crisis has already forced the authority to drastically increase its reliance on bank loans. In early July, it was also forced to cancel the payment of wages of public sector workers. Financial Times (Access)

Saadi al-Gaddafi flees to Niger from Libya in widening family split

Saadi al-Gaddafi

Saadi al-Gaddafi

A split in the family of Libya's (former) leader Muammar al-Gaddafi was widened on Sunday, when one of his sons, Saadi al-Gaddafi fled to Niger. Saadi has previously contacted the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) to negotiate a peace treaty, but his attempts were thwarted by Gaddafi and another son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, both of whom have promised to fight to the last bullet. Some of al-Gaddafi's family, including his wife Safiya, sons Mihammed and Hanibal, daughter Ayesha and their siblings, have fled to Algeria. It is not known where Gaddafi himself is. Tripoli Post

Russia claimed fall of Gaddafi was a hoax in an al-Jazeera TV studio

The six month long civil war in Libya and the Nato air campaign to oust Muammar Gaddafi was causing political splits in Russia anyway, with public clashes between President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Medvedev blamed the crisis on "the crimes of the Libyan regime against its own people," and tacitly endorsed the Nato campaign, while Putin accused the US and NATO of hypocrisy, bombing and killing Libyan civilians under the pretext of protecting them. The fall of Gaddafi was a great shock in Moscow, and for several days, Russia's media actually claimed it was all a hoax by al-Jazeera, supported by actors playing parts in a tv studio replica of Tripoli. Jamestown

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