Israel cleared out almost all the staff from its embassy in Amman, Jordan, last Thursday after news spread that anti-Israel protests would be held there, according to Israeli media. The decision to evacuate the staff was influenced by Israel’s concerns that its Amman embassy could suffer attacks similar to those that its embassy in Cairo endured the previous week. Cairo is the only other Arab capital besides Amman where Israel has an embassy.

As part of a rising tide of anti-Israel protests moving through the Middle East, Jordanian activists called for a “million-man march” against the Israeli Embassy. The protesters, led by Islamists, leftists and labor unions, have a list of demands that include the embassy’s closure, removal of the ambassador from Jordan and, most significantly, the cancellation of Jordan’s 1994 peace treaty with Israel.

Although promoters had said the event would attract 1 million people, in the end, only around 300 protesters showed up. The Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan’s largest opposition group and most outspoken critic of the country’s 1994 peace treaty with Israel, accounted for around one third of the demonstrators.

Despite the meager turnout, the event highlights a wave of anti-Israel sentiment that is building momentum at a volatile time for Israel.

Israel’s relationship with Turkey is rapidly deteriorating after Ankara recalled its ambassador to Israel following Israel’s refusal to apologize for the deaths of nine Turks in a raid by the Israeli military on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010.

Israeli-Egyptian relations have been strained by the violent ransacking of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on September 9, and the killing of six Egyptian soldiers in August.

This week, the Palestinians are scheduled to ask the United Nations to recognize an independent Palestinian nation, despite opposition from Israel and the United States.

Last week, Trumpet columnist Brad Macdonald discussed the multiplying perils Israel is facing:

[T]he willingness of Israel’s traditional allies to maintain past agreements and defend Jewish sovereignty is rapidly diminishing. … It’s a grim scenario, and one that has converged on Israel with incredible speed. As a European envoy in Jerusalem put it this week, “Within a week Israel has found itself two friends down and about to face a so-called diplomatic tsunami with the Palestinians.” In fact, the situation is markedly worse than these people realize. Israel hasn’t simply lost Egypt and Turkey as regional allies—it has gained both as enemies. The peril is less that Israel’s position is being weakened, and more that Iran and its radical Islamic proxies are being dramatically strengthened!

Although the protest in Jordan didn’t materialize into anything as significant as the raid in Egypt, it adds a little more to the mountain of evidence showing that those who hate Israel are becoming bolder, and that anti-Israeli sentiment is on the rise throughout the Middle East. It also shows that as Israel’s enemies become bolder, the Jewish nation is becoming more fearful and more likely to look outside the Middle East for protection.

As Mr. Macdonald concluded, “These events have not simply weakened Israel, they have empowered Israel’s enemy! The stage is set for Israel to be besieged—creating a scenario in which it will turn to Europe for help.”