Ayoon Wa Azan (His Stolen Shoe Is More Honorable Than All of Them)

I have been criticizing the performance of the Muslim Brotherhood ever since they came to power in Egypt. I usually focus on issues such as the deterioration of the economy, without forgetting the security chaos, the traffic congestion and many other issues. But I finally found something that I agree with President Mohamed Morsi on. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) was founded by Benjamin Netanyahu in the early days of his first government (1996-1999). This means that MEMRI, like Netanyahu, looks for any material that harms the Arabs and Muslims to publish it in the United States, particularly among congressmen and women – who at any rate do not need any additional incitement, since they are already in the pocket of the Israel lobby that bought them (in cash). And of course, MEMRI sees none of the flaws of the fascist, neo-Nazi and racist government of Israel, which detains entire families, including mothers and their children. Now, MEMRI has distributed video footage from two interviews with Dr. Mohamed Morsi on 20/3 and 23/9/2010, when he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau. In the video, Morsi attacked the bloodsucking Zionists, and called for armed resistance in Palestine while insisting that Zionists have no claims to the land of Palestine and have no place for them there. Morsi said that they stole the land of Palestine in 1947-1948 and continue to do so, and that Palestine belongs to the Palestinians and not the Zionists. I do not accept any comparison between Dr. Morsi and the enemies of the nation. His shoe that was stolen while he was praying is more honorable than all of them, and I agree with the Egyptian president in all that he was quoted as saying. All I want to add is that I accept the two-state solution, and do not want for any of the Palestinians or the occupying Zionists to be killed. Since I studied the ancient history of the Middle East, I can say in total confidence that there are no traces for the Jews in Palestine, or indeed for their prophets and their kings. All their claims are Old Testament myths that have nothing to do with actual history or geography. I read the statements attributed to Dr. Morsi in an article published by an American Likudnik website, which also attacked Dr. Essam el-Erian, vice president of the Freedom and Justice Party, because he urged Egyptian Jews to return to Egypt, and to allow the Palestinians to return to their country. Again, I agree with Dr. Essam despite the many differences we may have, and I support what he said. I add that all of Palestine is occupied territory, and what the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad say in this regard is all true. But after that, I accept the two-state solution in order to avoid war. Perhaps I will return tomorrow to criticizing the performance of the Egyptian president, his government and the Muslim Brotherhood. But if I did, then my only motive would be my concern for the people of Egypt whom I see are now in a financial crisis that the Muslim Brotherhood does not seem to know how to resolve. But this is one thing, and the position on Israel is a different thing, as I support the Muslim Brotherhood when it comes to that from A to Z. The chutzpah of the Israeli government and its backers in the United States did not stop with the debacle over the Egyptian president and vice president at the ruling party. Indeed, I read another article by them titled “The Conspiracy of Brothers" which concluded that there are six Muslim Brotherhood members in the Obama administration. Even if they were six hundred, and not six, or even if they were six thousand, they remain fewer than the traitors who owe their sole allegiance to Israel in the U.S. administration, Congress and the media. If I personally know the names of a few hundred Likudnik Jews and Christian Zionists in the U.S. administrations that came over the span of my career, then there must be thousands of those traitors in the executive and legislative branches and around them, and yet they dare talk about six Muslims in the administration. Well, I may be today with the Muslim Brotherhood, but let me quote Rev. Ed Bacon, of the All Saints Episcopal Church of Pasadena, California. At a meeting with the (American) Muslim Public Affairs Council, he said that there were acts of evil committed by Christians including by evangelical Zionists, such as the Crusades, slavery and Islamophobia, and the evangelical Zionist funding of settlement building. He also said that he was heartbroken after visiting Gaza. The church then declared its support for Rev. Bacon. I wrote more than once about the boycott by American churches of Israel, and I can give new examples today – I have kept all the material on this. But having run out of space, all I say is that Mohamed Morsi and Essam el-Erian told the truth and I am with them and with the Muslim Brotherhood. I just hope to see a two-state solution, even if on only 22 percent of historic Palestine, to save people's lives. --- The views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent or reflect the editorial policy of Arabstoday.