Israel’s National Security Council thinks that President Barack Obama
is naïve in his attitude towards the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which
stated Sunday it can’t fathom the idea of recognizing Israel.
Dr. Rashad Bayumi, the Brotherhood’s number two leader, said on
Sunday, “No Muslim Brotherhood members will engage in any contact or
normalization with Israel.”
President Obama has asked the Muslim Brotherhood’s leading jurist,
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, to mediate secret talks between the United States and
the Taliban, according to The Hindu newspaper. The jurist
previously has called for killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq and has vowed
that Islam “will conquer Europe [and] will conquer America,” whether by
force or by the spread of radical Islam.
In early 2010, when American foreign policy experts could not imagine
that the radical Muslim Brotherhood would emerge as the most powerful
political force in Egypt, President Obama dismissed the party as a
“faction,” adding that “they don’t have majority support in Egypt. But
they’re well organized. There are strains of their ideology that are
anti-U.S.”
Less than a year afterwards, the Brotherhood has emerged as the
winner of the first three rounds of legislative elections in the
post-Mubarak period. Its closest contender represents the even more
radical Salafist Muslim sect.
Last summer, the official Obama administration policy changed from
shunning the Muslim Brotherhood to “engaging” it. Last month, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator John Kerry met in Cairo
with top members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
Israel’s National Security Council, headed by Maj.-Gen. Yaakov
Amidror, recently discussed “The Challenge of the Rise of the Muslim
Brotherhood and its Offshoots” and concluded that the US president is
naïve, according to the Hebrew daily Yisrael HaYom.
The National Security Council expressed the hope that the Obama
administration will use economic leverage to keep the Muslim Brotherhood
from spreading its ideology to other Muslim Arab countries.
The party was outlawed under the Mubarak regime, and its deep roots
and ideology of terrorism resulted in its creation of the Hamas
terrorist organization, which now rules Gaza and is working its way back
into the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas, who leads the
rival Fatah party.
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