An Alternative to Creating a Doomed-to-Fail Palestinian State
Talk to clan leaders, not Fatah officials.
February 10, 2017
The U.S. shouldn’t overplay its hand.
The Trump administration is currently considering adding the Muslim Brotherhood—an Islamist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian group dedicated to creating a “global Islamic state”—to the State Department’s official list of terrorist organizations. Although the Brotherhood’s motto concludes with the words “jihad is our way; death for the sake of Allah is our highest aspiration,” and although it has a history of terrorist sympathies, Eric Trager argues that the case for giving it the terrorist designation is not clear-cut:
Talk to clan leaders, not Fatah officials.
And of the UN resolution that buttresses it.
The U.S. shouldn’t overplay its hand.
A disturbing precedent.
One of the last untouched major Judean sites.
The Trump administration is currently considering adding the Muslim Brotherhood—an Islamist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian group dedicated to creating a “global Islamic state”—to the State Department’s official list of terrorist organizations. Although the Brotherhood’s motto concludes with the words “jihad is our way; death for the sake of Allah is our highest aspiration,” and although it has a history of terrorist sympathies, Eric Trager argues that the case for giving it the terrorist designation is not clear-cut:
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