Thousands Partake In Anti-Israel Protest In Athens That Turns Violent, Muslim Brotherhood Marches In Egypt, Thousands March In Turkey

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Europe and the Middle East on Monday, clashing with police as they protested the fact that Israeli soldiers were brutally attacked while boarding a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in an attempt to enforce a naval blockade intended to keep weapons out of the hands of terrorist. The violence instigated by the leftist activists on the flotilla led to a clash that left 10 dead. Reuters reports that in "Athens, some 3,500 protesters rallied outside the Israeli embassy, chanting 'Hands off Gaza' and 'Free Palestine'." It's odd to be yelling "Free Palestine" when Israel left Gaza in 2005 and yet the terrorism and violence was in no way abated. Reuters says that several hundreds in Athens "clashed with police, throwing chunks of marble, stones and bottles. Police fired teargas to disperse them. 'Demonstrators set barricades on fire, police chased them, there were a lot of stones and teargas and a few people had blood on their heads,' a Reuters witness said, adding he saw four people injured. Police said they detained five protesters. The Israeli marines' action in the eastern Mediterranean sparked street protests and government ire in Turkey, long Israel's lone Muslim ally in the region, and thousands of followers of an anti-U.S. cleric took to the streets in Baghdad. Across Egypt, which in 1979 became the first Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel, up to 8,000 Egyptians protested, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in Cairo and called on the government to open its Rafah borders with Gaza. The protests were organised by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's biggest opposition group which is affiliated to Hamas, the Islamist group that took control of the Gaza strip in 2007. Two Brotherhood parliamentarians were on board the convoy ships. 'Hamas you are the cannon and the Brotherhood is your voice,' chanted thousands of Egyptians protesting in Cairo." Tweet