Top Hamas representative in W. Bank says PA leadership also stands to lose from Islamists' rise to power in Arab world: "Any victory for the Muslim Brotherhood is a victory for Hamas."
We have the Muzzie Bros. and Co. running Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Gaza, and Lebanon. Now they are trying to take over Syria and Jordan.
‘Israel biggest loser from Muslim Brotherhood win in Egypt’
No they are second. The biggest losers are Coptic Christians. The genocide against them will escalate as it has done with Abyssinian Christians in Iraq.
I imagine the Egyptian Christians and all women living there might argue with this headline.
Hope the dumb ass Egyptians like living under their new dark age government
Sorry, Egypt is the biggest loser. Israel is also a big loser, but Egypt will get a lot worse before it gets any better.
And looking back, the biggest mistake we seem to have made was on the “hearts and mind” campaign. We took the heart of the middle east but we didn’t take the middle east’s hearts out of deference to the Saudis. We should have pushed for pluralism, for separation of Mosque and state, for the ideals that made the west rich and powerful and strong. “cultural sensitivity” - what is that, really? Here in the US it is a Native American crying in a commercial, tribes living in camps selling jewelry or operating casinos, Chinatown and little Tokyo. Why we deferred so much to the ME dictators is beyond me - we believed our own BS about respecting foreign cultures. Hey we can respect them only so much. When they enslave people for the color of their skin, when they kill rape victims for adultery, when they blow up ancient statues that nobody prays to for fear of idolatry, we don’t need to respect that part of their culture. We should immediately begin a Liberalization campaign, leaflets, books, radio broadcasts and the like. It may take years or decades but that part of the world needs reform or else it will always be backwards.
Egypt is a particularly problematic spot because they have almost nothing to give the world. Tourism? Textiles maybe. Agriculture perhaps. But their natural resources they will need internally, and they won’t become a giant exporter of technology or anything anytime soon. Too backwards, poor and lacking infrastructure and stability to attract foreign investment. The place is a mess that will get messier.
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It (Israel’s loss) is not specifically due to ‘Muslim Brotherhood gains’ in the Egyptian parliament first-round elections, for the party aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood did not, alone, gain a majority of the contested seats - it gained less than 40%.
The more difficult “loss” was that Salafist parties more extreme than the Muslim Brotherhood did much better than expected, gaining more than 20% of the contested seats.
THAT fact, and the fact that it provides for a near 60% super-majority (if such returns are copied in the remaining parliamentary elections) if the parties of the Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood form a coalition; and the fact that such a coalition will make for an even more extremist government than would one set by a mere Muslim Brotherhood majority - are the facts that comprise the real “loss” to the possibility of continued peaceful Israeli-Egyptian relations.