Fides: "The attack on the Israeli embassy is a clear act of breaking with the past", says a missionary from Cairo

A Camboni missionary, Fr.Giovanni, reads the tea leaves  surrounding the recent mob attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo, and sees the shadow of government complicity:

"It is hard to think that it was a spontaneous event. It was a planned event. This attack was carried out by recruited football fans. What is most disturbing is that the embassy was not adequately defended. . . To all of this, an additional key to the reading can be added. The provisional government was formed by members of Mubarak’s military regime. While the latter is on trial, his men rule the Country. But from the trial, some papers that highlight the connivance of the current power holders with past events could emerge. In addition, the mood of the population towards the army has changed. Many are declaring themselves against the army. One could therefore hypothesize underground agreements between the military sectors and Muslim Brotherhood environments, if the military power pave the way for the Muslim Brotherhood, the latter could in return guarantee them a certain impunity. But we are only dealing with hypotheses."

Photo: AFP; Israeli embassy, Cairo, under attack, September 9.