January 7, 2013 By
A video disseminated
by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) should blow a giant
hole in the fantasy the Obama administration refers to as their Muslim
“outreach” initiative. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is shown in 2010
delivering an anti-Semitic diatribe, during which he referred to “the
Zionists” as “bloodsuckers,” “warmongers,” and “the descendants of apes
and pigs.” He also called for “military resistance within the land of
Palestine,” further noting that the PLO “was created by the Zionist and
American enemies.”
The tape is a compilation of excerpts from two different interviews given by Morsi on March 20 and September 23 in 2010. MEMRI discovered the footage, translated it, and combined it into the aforementioned video. Morsi was a member of
the Guidance Office of the Muslim Brotherhood when he delivered the
remarks. “The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine,” he said
March 20. “There is no place for them on the land of Palestine. What
they took before 1947-8 constitutes plundering, and what they are doing
now is a continuation of this plundering. By no means do we recognize
their Green Line. The land of Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, not
to the Zionists.”
He was sure to include the United States in the mix as well. “We must
confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed
with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and
its weapons, as well as by its own nuclear weapons, the existence of
which is well known. It will bring about their own destruction. The
peoples must boycott this entity and avoid normalization of relations
with it. All products from countries supporting this entity–from the
U.S. and others–must be boycotted.”
Such a boycott must be quite selective. Beginning January 22, Egypt is scheduled to receive the
first installment of 10 F-16 fighter jets and 200 Abrams tanks from the
United States as part of a $213 million foreign aid package originally
promised to former president Hosni Mubarak. Morsi hasn’t cancelled it.
Neither has the Obama administration, despite Mubarak’s ouster. Such
seeming indifference by Obama has engendered increasing criticism, with
the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) circulating a petition
that has garnered more than 150,000 signatures. “A Shariah dictatorship
on Israel’s border–armed with American weapons–is a deadly threat to
Israel and America,” it reads. “All U.S. funding to Egypt must be cut
off until we can certify that aid to Egypt will help the national
security interests of the United States and Israel.”
This is what Morsi thought of such security interests on September
23, 2010. “These futile [Israeli-Palestinian] negotiations are a waste
of time and opportunities…We can see how this dream has dissipated. This
dream has always been an illusion…No reasonable person can expect any
progress on this track. Either [you accept] the Zionists and everything
they want, or else it is war. This is what these occupiers of the land
of Palestine know–these blood-suckers, who attack the Palestinians,
these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs…[Zionists] must not
be given any opportunity, and must not stand on any Arab or Islamic
land. They must be driven out of our countries.” The description of Jews
as the offspring of apes and pigs is favored imagery of genocidal
clerics all throughout the Muslim world and is drawn from the Koran.
This is not the only belligerent statement made by a member of
Egypt’s new leadership recently. Essam el-Erian, deputy head of the
Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party and a Morsi advisor, called on Jews
to return to Egypt because Israel is a criminal entity. “It is better
for Jews to live in a country like Egypt rather than in a country
contaminated by occupation,” he contended. ”Every Egyptian has the right
to come back to Egypt no matter what his religion. Egyptian Jews should
refuse to live under a brutal, bloody and racist occupation stained
with war crimes against humanity.”
After receiving much criticism, el-Erian clarified his
remarks. ”Jewish occupiers of the territory of historic Palestine are an
obstacle to the Palestinians’ right of return,” he said. “Anyone who
can read the future can see that this project has a decade, less than a
decade to go, and it is our faith that the people of Palestine can then
return to Palestine. There will be no such thing as Israel. Instead
there will be Palestine which will be home to Jews, Muslims and Druze
and all the people who were there from the start,” he added.
El-Erian’s initial remarks drew the ire of Mohamed Abou Samra, a leading figure in the Islamic Jihad movement. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm,
Samra sees a different future for Jews naive enough to take up the
offer to return to Egypt. “We shall fight them vigorously if they
return, especially the Egyptian-Israeli Jews. Islamic Sharia says they
deserve to be killed.”
Samra needn’t have worried. Sharia is now the law of the land in
Egypt. On December 23, Egypt’s Sharia-based constitution was finally approved after
a second round of voting. Western media apologists had sought to
highlight the widespread bitterness of the opposition, and the fact that
only 32 percent of the voters turned out to vote. Yet 64 percent of
Egyptians who did vote approved the document, suggesting Morsi and
Sharia law have firm footing in the worlds’ largest Arab country. Thus
Morsi’s commitment to Sharia, highlighted during
his May 13, 2012 speech, promising that “I take an oath before Allah
and before you all that regardless of the actual text [of the
constitution]… Allah willing, the text will truly reflect [Sharia], as
will be agreed upon by the Egyptian people, by the Islamic scholars, and
by legal and constitutional experts,” has come to pass.
In other words, it would seem Morsi is the kind of man who follows
through on what he believes. And what he believes about Israel and the
Jews ought to make it clear that arming him and his Muslim Brotherhood
followers with additional weaponry is a fool’s errand. Yet as of today,
it is an errand the Obama administration intends to fulfill. Michel
Rubin, a Middle East regional expert at the American Enterprise
Institute, explains why. “Obama lived for years in an ivory tower, where
political correctness was a religion,” he contends. “By ignoring
reality, Obama’s policies have become untethered from reality.”
Yet reality has intruded. The videos released by MEMRI cannot be
easily dismissed–unless a mainstream media that has shown a remarkable
incuriosity regarding anything that interferes with the “Arab Spring
narrative” is willing to once again give President Obama a pass. One
might be forgiven for wondering if the administration’s fallback
position here will be the idea that Morsi has “evolved” since 2010. In
one sense they would be right. Morsi has indeed evolved. He and his
Muslim Brotherhood associates now represent far more of a threat to
Israel and the Middle East than they ever have. It remains to be seen if
Obama will further enable them with military hardware. If he does,
Americans should brace themselves for a possible future of war between
Egypt and Israel — with both sides using weapons supplied by the United
States.
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