The blindness of the intention of the Muslim Brotherhood is spreading. Jeffrey Goldberg thinks he might be naive by saying that the Brotherhood’s statements about ending the peace treaty with Israel are a “campaign promise.” No, they’re not.
Note, however, that none of the other news media are picking up the Eli Lake story. Because of course, it goes against the narrative that the Brotherhood is “moderating.” For instance, this is the current AP boilerplate:
The Brotherhood, founded in 1928 and outlawed in 1954, renounced violence decades ago and its strain of conservative Islam falls far short of the radicalism of Afghanistan’s Taliban or even the ultrapuritanism that reigns in U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Though some in al-Qaida have Brotherhood roots, the terror group and other jihadists despise the movement for participating in elections.
It renounced violence “decades ago,” yet the AP story carries this information:
The Brotherhood has rushed to take a stronger role in the unprecedented protests that erupted 10 days ago, led by more secular young activists demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The Brotherhood’s strength was on display in the pitched battles in Wednesday and Thursday against government supporters who attacked the protesters’ camp in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square.
Brothers – distinguishable by their close-cropped beards – dominated the front lines, often lining up to pray for “victory or martyrdom,” before throwing themselves into the fray, hurling stones, sticks and firebombs at the attackers while shouting “God is great.”
The cognitive dissonance of our media is utterly astonishing. They are proving that the Brotherhood is violent even while insisting mightily that the Brotherhood has renounced violence. I sometimes think we’re living in Wonderland, and the Red Queen’s going to pop up any minute shouting about chopping off people’s heads. Oh. Wait. That would be Islamic rule, which is what the Brotherhood is shooting for.
I would dearly love to have one hour of Q&A time with the AP editorial staff. Just to hear their explanation of this utter denial of reality.
I think the Egyptian knows the character (or lack thereof) of the Muslim Brotherhood much better than western journalists. They will charm the people while blocking the MB. The army has been in charge since the 1950s and like the paycheck from Uncle Sam. They know it is not a good idea to mess with IDF.
I for one am tired of trying to point this out. Leave the Egyptians to whatever they want and their supporters in the west demand. Let Egypt unwind the clock 1300 years. Let it all implode in fire.
Don’t worry Trudy, the US has no real leverage to influence anything, so it will be up to the Egyptians and the interfering Iranians to decide what will happen in Egypt. You could call two billion smackers a year leverage, but nobody thinks that Obama and his consiglieri from Chicago are going to turn off the spigot, unless Egypt attacks Israel. And maybe not even then.
I dunno nothing ’bout no steenkeen Egypt, but I’m not sure America ever recovered from the Hays Code !