Tarek al-Zomor, spokesman of the Jama'a al-Islamiya, has said that US embassies in the Middle East would be at risk for attack if the United States used its veto in the vote for a Palestinian state at the United Nations Security Council on Friday. “The US should take a positive stance on the Palestinian cause in light of the Arab Spring,” he said on Sunday. He said, "The US's insistence on vetoing [the recognition of a Palestinian state] would threaten its embassies and might encourage a repetition of the tragic events that occurred near the Israeli Embassy," referring to the 9 September storming of the Israeli Embassy in Giza. “The Arabs will not stand still if the resolution is vetoed,” he said. “They would pressure their regimes to cut relations with the US for that.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to ask the UN Security Council on Friday to recognize its status as an independent state, according to the 1967 border with Israel. Egyptian Islamist militants, unlike their counterparts in various other Muslim states, have have never conducted any attack on the heavily-fortified US Embassy in Cairo. Translated from the Arabic Edition
