Israeli forces go on high alert in anticipation of mass Muslim protests in Gaza, Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria

Israel has posted additional military, police and security forces in the West Bank, opposite the Gaza Strip and among Israeli Arab communities following information received that all three are preparing to stage big anti-American protests Friday, Sept. 14.

The Palestinian Authority, facing street protests against its rule, hopes to re-direct West Bank and East Jerusalem anger  to the US, while Hamas has been ordered by the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo to fill the streets of Gaza with protesters against the alleged anti-Muslim film produced in the US by an Egyptian Coptic Christian to coincide with a mass Muslim Brotherhood demonstration planned for Cairo.

Several scores of Israeli Arabs, members of the extremist Northern Section of the Islamic Movement, demonstrated outside the US embassy in Tel Aviv Thursday, chanting anti-American slogans and praise for the Prophet Muhammad.  The Egyptian protests are being orchestrated by newly elected President Morsi.

Morsi, who (unlike Israel's Netanyahu) has been invited to the White House at the end of this month, refused to condemn the murder of four US diplomats in Libya or offer the Egyptian people’s condolences to the US for its loss. He also waited 24 hours before issuing a lukewarm statement against the militants who stormed the US embassy in Cairo. He made no mention of the black al Qaeda flags hoisted above the US embassy in Cairo after the Stars and Stripes was torn down. Instead, the Egyptian president instructed his embassy in Washington to prepare a suit against the film’s director. That was before he turned out, embarrassingly, to be an Egyptian Copt.  It should be easier to prosecute, at least, in absentia, since the Copt behind "Sam Bacile" is not likely to be visiting his home country anytime soon.

Thursday, Israel Channel Two reported that Brotherhood websites aired divergent messages on their English and Arabic sites:  In English, protesters were exhorted to exercise restraint. There were also words of self-congratulation that the US embassy gates were not broken down and no Americans harmed. In Arabic, the Egyptian masses were called out to demonstrate en masse Friday against the made-in-the-USA film.
That demonstration will be carefully watched to see whether it is quiet or veers into violence and anti-American outbursts. That will be the test of Morsi’s bone fides in American eyes. However, its main importance as he sees it is as a demonstration that the Brotherhood has regained control of the streets of Cairo.

It was to show the Egyptian president that he is still on trial in Washington, that President Obama said Thursday that the US would no longer consider the Egyptian government an ally, “but we don’t consider them an enemy. …I think we are going to have to see how they respond to this incident, to see how they respond to maintaining the peace treaty with Israel.” he said. IsraelInsider