The ideals of revolution against dictatorship is great but be careful who gets into control as a result. The Muslim Brotherhood is not just looking to 'review' the treaties between Egypt and Israel, they're looking to scuttle them totally and get back to their job of destroying Israel - a job they've been pursuing for years through Hamas. More and more the US is losing their major Arab ally and with that loss we move closer and closer to war. :(
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Urges Review of Israel Ties http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/009e8a1a-7736-11e0-aed6-00144feabdc0.html The Muslim Brotherhood opposition group in Egypt has called for a review of the 1978 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel and says it should be resubmitted to a freely elected parliament for approval. Regarded as the best-organised political group in Egypt, the Brotherhood is poised to play an influential role in politics in the country after the fall of the regime of Hosni Mubarak, the former president. Egypt is due to hold parliamentary elections in September and the group is likely to emerge with the largest bloc in the assembly. It said this week that its candidates would compete for half the seats in parliament. The Brotherhood, banned for most of its 80-year history, has begun to set up a political party to be named the Freedom and Justice party. We should now raise our voice to ask for: an end to normalisation [with Israel] which has given our enemy stability; an end to [Egyptian] efforts to secure from infiltrators the borders of the Zionists; the abolition of all [joint] economic interests such as the Qualified Industrial Zones agreement and the export of Egyptian gas to Israel, said Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhoods leader. The QIZ agreement allows Egypt to export manufactured goods to the US duty-free as long as they have Israeli inputs to a value of 10 per cent. Egypt has just mediated a reconciliation between Fatah, the Palestinian faction headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza. Attempts to broker the same agreement under Mr Mubarak had failed, largely because Egypt was seen to be partial to Fatah and biased against Hamas, which shares the same Islamist credentials of the Brotherhood. Under Mr Mubarak, Egypt also kept its border with Gaza sealed after 2007, when Hamas ousted Fatah from the territory after a brief war. The authorities in Cairo now say they are putting in place measures to allow the Rafah border crossing to be opened permanently. Moves such as the export of Egyptian gas to Israel have always been unpopular and activists tried to stop them through the courts before the fall of Mr Mubarak. Sameh Fahmy, the former oil minister, and seven of his aides have been detained since the fall of Mr Mubarak in connection with the exports, which are alleged to have been sold at less than the market value. Analysts say Egypt is now charting a more independent foreign policy. The Mubarak regime was seen by many Egyptians to be closely aligned with US and Israeli interests, especially in its later years. Egyptian public opinion has always been wary of any normalisation of relations with Israel despite more than 30 years of formal peace. But analysts caution that this does not mean a majority would want a return to the state of war. 1. The Muslim Brotherhood is now considered an opposition group. I guess one mans terrorist is another mans -insert media euphemist here-. 2. Reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas has failed multiple times before not because of any perceived bias on the part of Egypt but because Hamas kept killing it. And will again. They've already started. 3. Egypt has never been pro-Israel and most considered the peace to be a very cold one. No sense of normalization, no move to stop the demonization of Israel, and the continued training of the army to fight an unnamed enemy directly to their ea ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337596 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
