So says the Muslim Brotherhood.
This isn’t going to end well.
[Update a few minutes later]
Reflections on the wishful thinking about Egypt:
There are wolves all too ready to profit from the gamboling of the sheep. Indeed, they are even quite willing to put on a wool disguise to lull them further into daydreams. The French aristocrat who converted to Catholicism to be king said that Paris was well worth a mass. The Islamists think that Cairo is well worth inviting dumb American journalists to dinner and being hospitable to them.
It’s the same generally with the West, dreaming of a moderate Palestinian state at peace with Israel; of moderate Islamists happily preserving their religion of peace; of Middle Easterners expressing gratitude to those wonderful Westerners who stopped backing dictators and evil Zionists to support instead the masses’ legitimate aspirations; and all the rest of that man-made global balminess.
Try to explain your good intentions to the firing squad. Blindness and wishful thinking are traits one cannot afford in the Middle East because the price for them is going to be very, very high.
The old joke about denial not being a river in Egypt seems particularly apropo here.
It is starting to sound like circa 1934 all over again….
The 1st link claims that the MB said something scary.
The 2nd link claims that we should ignore what the MB has to say.
Hmmmmph!
And then there is this:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/egypt-s-radical-islamist-party-vows-to-respect-peace-treaty-with-israel-1.402547
Since it is soothing, we should ignore it, of course. But why shouldn’t we ignore everything they have to say?
a Coptic refugee … recounts how a Muslim physician treating her daughter at a hospital offered to give her a clitorectomy, absolutely free of charge.
A soothing Islamic state in its infancy. With free health care!
Of course they are going to ‘respect’ it for now Bob, about 3 Billion in aid to Egypt is conditional on their at least paying lip service while they smuggle weapons into the Gaza strip.
They will play both sides, mark my words.
I worry about the situation in Egypt as well, but keep in mind that whatever was said was probably said in Arabic,and we are reading a translation.
“He added that Hamas has served as a role model to the Brotherhood in its reconciliation with the Fatah movement and in closing the recent prisoner swap deal with Israel. ”
There are other ways this could be written that would sound less threatening.