Breitbart:
Just this week, on the same day, the New York Times and the Washington Post simultaneously decided to take sides in the current war in the Middle East. Unfortunately, they chose the Islamists.
On Thursday, as rockets were landing on Israeli suburbs, two pieces were published by the so-called “papers of record,” that sided with the Muslim Brotherhood. Writing in the New York Times, Kareem Fahim focused ostensibly on the Egyptian response to the war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. The author focused on what he saw as the lack of Cairo’s response, especially to helping those in Gaza.
Fahim, who has been in trouble in the past for his less than objective writing on the “rebels” in Syria, p
ushes a narrative in which the guilty party is the new democratically elected President of Egypt. Retired General Abdel Fattah el Sisi is painted as obsessed with the security threat in the Sinai when in fact he should be reprising the 2012 role of his predecessor, Mohammad Morsi, as mediator between Israel and the terrorists of Hamas. The fact that Morsi was the head of a theocratic Muslim Brotherhood government committed to destroying democracy in the Middle East, and that Hamas is formally a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood that the US government lists officially as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, does not come into Fahim’s reasoning. The fact that Hamas’ own charter makes clear both that it is part of the Brotherhood and committed to destroying Israel seems to have escaped the author too.
At this point, just one quote from the introduction to the Hamas Charter indicates how any mediator would fail to make a honest negotiator out of Hamas, even President Sisi:
“Our battle with the Jews is long and dangerous, requiring all dedicated efforts. It is a phase which must be followed by succeeding phases, a battalion which must be supported by battalion after battalion of the divided Arab and Islamic world until the enemy is overcome, and the victory of Allah descends.”
Any mediator – unless they were, like Morsi, a member of the MB – would fail to bring a lasting peace since Article Two of the charter states quite clearly that Hamas is “a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood chapter in Palestine.”
Adam Taylor of the Washington Post takes us even deeper down the rabbit hole of MB propaganda with his piece entitled “The Man the Israeli Palestinian Crisis Needs Most: Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi.” For Taylor, it is not President Sisi who needs to step in, but Morsi himself, presumably released from prison and exonerated for trying to turn Egypt into a one-party theocratic state.
The far-left, the “higher education” left, and the Washington establishment elitists (there is of course crossover,) are all out to throw Israel to the wolves. I hear more and more concern amongst Jewish Americans who feel betrayed, and are at a loss to understand why most Democrats and the MSM have seemingly adopted a hatred for Israel, and many are utterly flabbergasted (some almost to tears,) to learn that the only ones speaking out in favor of Israel are the TEA Party, Conservatives, and some Republicans. Democrats are likely to find they have much less support by Jews in the November elections.
The LATimes has video of a speech Obama gave in front of Muslims in LA.
They still hide it in a vault for Obama.
It needs to be seen.
As for writers like Kareem Fahim, they RELY on the ignorance of Americans toward Islam.
To have their essays ”Fisked” like this one was by the Breitbart writer must really peeve them.
Remember how there used to be hope for islam because the non-Middle Eastern Muslim countries were capable of being both moderate and secular?
Forget that hope!
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/07/in-malaysia-sharia-advances.php
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/13/us-malaysia-islam-feature-idUSKBN0FI01J20140713?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22
To quote:
In Paris the Gaza situation is resulting in full-blown rioting by the Muslim part of the population.
Non-Muslim property is being destroyed and police are being attacked.
Jews were trapped in a synagogue by rioting Muslims.
Non-Muslim religious buildings were destroyed.
It almost seems as though the NYTimes wants the same thing here.