From Al Masry Al Youm: Israeli commentators find reassurance in Egypt’s military rulers

As Israel’s diplomatic crisis with Egypt intensified this past week, commentators in the Israeli press have been unable to resist making comparisons with Turkey in mid-2010, when Israeli soldiers killed eight Turkish nationals during a raid on the Marmara, a ship in a flotilla seeking to break Israel’s longstanding blockade on the Gaza Strip.

Egypt’s crisis with Israel started on Thursday, when the Israeli military killed five Egyptian police and army personnel while pursuing what they believed to be Gaza-based Palestinian militants, who had earlier that day launched an attack on Israelis from Egyptian territory in Sinai. Eight Israelis were killed in the terrorist attacks just north of Sinai. ...

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