The Muslim Brotherhood’s True Intentions: The 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty Consigned to the Flames

Daphne Anson
05 February '11

Despite the absurdity of the BBC’s unfit-for-purpose (yes, I’ve used that description before, and I make no apology for using it again) Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen describing it online as a “moderate” organisation, the radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood’s intentions regarding the Peace Treaty signed between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1979 has been revealed by the Brotherhood’s deputy leader, Rashad al-Bayoumi – the demise of Hosni Mubarak’s government in favour of one dominated by the Brotherhood would be followed by the abrogation of that treaty.

“We have been repeatedly assured in the media – on the basis of no evidence – that if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power in a coalition or even directly that the radical Islamist group would keep the peace treaty with Israel,” writes Middle East analyst Professor Barry Rubin, who informs us that on Russian television Rashad al-Bayoumi has said that a Brotherhood government would abolish the treaty altogether http://en.rian.ru/world/20110203/162433368.html

and has told an interviewer on Japan's NHTV:

"After President Mubarak steps down and a provisional government is formed, there is a need to dissolve the peace treaty with Israel" http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/02/scoop-egyptian-muslim-brotherhood.html

Al Beeb’s World Affairs editor John Simpson reported yesterday that the Friday crowd in Tahrir Square contained many more Islamists, including adherents of the Muslim Brotherhood (I noticed footage of placards with the Magen David scrawled on Mubarak's face, an ominous signal), and it seems to me that there are signs that within the BBC itself there at least a few who see Bowen’s foolishness for what it is.

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