CAIRO - The Army's top brass have been advised to relocate the Israeli Embassy in Giza to the upmarket residential district of New Cairo. This suggestion has been made by the revolutionary ‘Alliance of Egypt Above All', which argues that removing the Israeli Embassy from its present location, not far from the heart of Cairo, will persuade angry youths, who have been demonstrating there, to calm down and go home. For the past three weeks, there have been mass demonstrations outside the Israeli Embassy, in the wake of five Egyptian soldiers being killed in a border attack by the Israeli Army. Although Israel's Defence Minister expressed his regret at the attack and the deaths, Cairo has responded angrily and demanded a joint investigation. Egyptians insist that the border attack is a blatant breach of the Camp David peace accords signed by Cairo and Tel Aviv in 1979. The nation's outrage grew when a young man, Ahmed el-Shahaat, managed to scale the 14-floor building in which the Israeli Embassy is housed and bring down the Israeli flag. So the Army wouldn't feel embarrassed at having to tell the Israeli Embassy staff to pack up and relocate, the Alliance of Egypt Above All says that other embassies in crowded parts of Giza and Cairo should also move to New Cairo. This suggestion comes in the wake of Giza Municipal Council starting to construct a 3m-tall fence around the Israeli Embassy, after enthusiastic youngsters threatened to storm it and force the Ambassador and his staff to leave. In its statement, made available to the press yesterday, the Alliance says that, if the Army refuses to dismantle the intimidating fence, a new one covered in pictures of Egyptian soldiers martyred in the wars against Israel should be constructed parallel to it. Meanwhile, a Facebook group has blown the bugle online, inviting one million people, armed with hammers and axes, to come to the Israeli Embassy in Giza on Friday to tear down the fence. A different Facebook group of young political activists has come up with a somewhat uncouth suggestion, apparently inspired by Egyptian men's proclivity for relieving themselves in public. They are encouraging such men to drink vast quantities of water on Friday, then turn up at the Embassy to urinate on the fence.
