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There is, in reality, no difference between Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood organization
Khaled Abu Toameh
April 24, 2025

….Hamas is not so much an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood as an extension of it. This linkage is why the Trump administration needs to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. We have seen how Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt, Jordan and other Arab countries have come out in support of Hamas, especially after its October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel, which resulted in the murder of 1,200 Israelis and the injury of thousands. Another 251 Israelis were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 59 – dead and alive – are still held as hostages. Hamas sees no difference between an Israeli soldier and an Israeli civilian. To Hamas, everyone in Israel is a “Zionist invader.” This view is why Hamas has been targeting Jews not only in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but also in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and other Israeli cities. READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH The Palestinians’ Sick Obsession With Holocaust Envy The bludgeoning of Israel with appropriated Jewish trauma is a textbook case of Holocaust envy, in which the singular destruction of European Jewry is softened, relativized, and rendered fungible. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to a local Nakba commemoration — “Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe,” a term originally coined by Syrian intellectual Constantin Zureiq to describe the Arab world’s failed 1948 attempt to annihilate Israel — but these events today exist largely to reassure Palestinians, and especially their admirers abroad, that they too, have had a Holocaust. The rhetoric surrounding the 1948 Palestinian displacement is increasingly and intentionally shaped to elicit not only sympathy, but reverence, as though it represents a moral singularity akin to the Holocaust.