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| DATE | 2016-11-26 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] ADL is toast
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Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben.safir-at-my.liu.edu):
> It seems pretty clear from this opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post,
> which is almost too painful to read through, that the ADL is defunct as
> a Jewish organization. It is very very sad.
Wait, you're supporting the political positions of King Adullah of
Jordan and President & General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt? Don't you
know they're Muslims? ;->
Quoting Caroline B. Glick:
> The Muslim Brotherhood in turn supports Iran.
Does it indeed? In what regard?
Yes, ex-President Morsi went to Tehran for the Non-Aligned Movement
Summit in 2012. However, the fact is that generally since the 1960s,
Muslim Brotherhood has both opposed Iran in geopolitical terms and also
nursed some serious ideological differences, being both Salafist (but
not the wild-eyed fanatical stripe typical of Saudi Arabia) and
Sunni.
I respect Ms. Glick as an editor and author, but am curious what on
earth she's talking about.
> During his year in power in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed
> Morsi permitted Iranian warships to travel through the Suez Canal,
> hosted Iranian leaders and Hezbollah commanders in Cairo and took a
> series of additional steps to embrace Iran.
Um, Egypt is required by international treaty (the Convention of
Constantinople, 1888) to grant passage to all ships during war and
peace. The only exception is wording in the treaty's Article X that
permits Egypt to regulate access 'for the defence of Egypt and the
maintenance of public order', which as used to defend their actions by
the British in the Second World War and by Egypt against Israeli
shipping after 1948 (until the Sadat-Begin treaty).
The rest of this goes rather far beyond weak sauce. It's paper-thin.
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