BY ISRAEL TODAY—
The Obama Administration on Wednesday signaled that it will reestablish official ties with Egypt’s rising Islamist power, the Muslim Brotherhood.
When former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted earlier this year, the Obama Administration insisted that the Brotherhood was a fringe group, and that detractors were making too big a deal of the Islamists influence in Egyptian society.
But an unnamed White House official told Reuters that the administration has had to face facts and is now determined to “engage with all of the parties that are competing for parliament or the presidency” in Egypt.
The Muslim Brotherhood, while not actively involved in terrorism at present, has a very violent past and continues to support allied terror groups across the region. The Brotherhood also has a stated long-term goal of establishing an Islamic caliphate, first in Egypt, then stretching across the Middle East, and finally encompassing the whole world.
But first, the Muslim Brotherhood wants to see Egypt return to a state of war with Israel, an entity that it sees as a blight on the Muslim Middle East.
There is concern in Israel that if Washington can succumb to pressure to accept the Muslim Brotherhood, it may eventually open its arms to Hamas and Hizballah, too. After all, both of those groups also wield considerable political clout in their respective societies.
ANY sign of “weakness” ALWAYS EMPOWERS and EMBOLDENS one’s Enemies!
I “inherited” a 1939 Webster’s Twentieth Century Dictionary from my Beloved Mother, who “went home” on March 21st. It is a TREASURE! I have a number of dictionaries, but this one is SPECIAL….I run to it frequently……
It has numbers of definitions on the word BOW.
ISRAEL TODAY—–you sure “pegged it” correctly! I will use this one:
“to cause to bend in submission” “to be subdued”
That covers it…….I am 66—-I turned 13 in 1958, so I can truly say I have pretty much seen it all!!!!! In 1963, I turned 18 and then America began its fall…….the roller coaster moved slowly downhill at first…..but very soon, it gained speed.
I am so thankful that I was Blessed to have a happy and carefree childhood, because I do not know ANY children in the last 40 years who can say that. At times, I have felt guilty because of my great Blessings in childhood—-the love and undergirding of parents and grandparents who had not left family to become “Prodigals.” But now, as I stop and think—A Multitude of Americans “dropped the ball” very soon after “coming of age” and America is in the condition it is in from the White House to most homes in every city, town, village and hamlet in our once great Nation.
WE threw all “caution to the wind” and now in 2011, we are drowning—going down for the third time…..WE elected our current top leadership by an overwhelming majority. That says a lot about America….it’s citizens…and how far we have fallen!
I don’t know if we will make it until the November 2012 Elections—-but between now and then, we had better spend a LOT OF TIME ON OUR KNEES!!!!!
How WE, as a nation, treat ISRAEL… will determine whether we survive as a nation—-or fall—and become a mere mention in the history books. RIGHT NOW….it’s looking real bad “folks” for us all……..