Brotherhood courts Palestine

[shaayecanaan]

Officials of the Brotherhood, Egypt's dominant Islamist movement, are pressing its militant Palestinian offshoot, Hamas, which controls Gaza, to make new compromises with Fatah, the Western-backed Palestinian leadership that has committed to peace with Israel and runs the West Bank.

The intervention in the Palestinian issue is the clearest indication yet that as it moves into a position of authority, the Brotherhood, the largest vote-getter in Egypt's parliamentary elections, intends to both moderate its positions on foreign policy and reconfigure Egypt's.

Brotherhood officials say that they are pulling back from their previous embrace of Hamas and its commitment to armed struggle against Israel in order to open new channels of communications with Fatah, which the Brotherhood had previously denounced for collaborating with Israel and selling out the Palestinian cause.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/brotherhood-courts-palestine-20120324-1vqxq.html

[Jefferson23]

1. Thanks for posting. n/t

[oberliner]

2. Clinton to Approve Military Aid to Egypt

A State Department official says the U.S. is set to release $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt, despite concerns that it is not making sufficient democratic reforms.

The official, who declined to be identified, says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce Friday that Washington has decided to waive a legislative requirement making military assistance to Egypt conditional on certain democratic benchmarks.

http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/03/23/clinton-to-approve-military-aid-to-egypt/

Wonder if there's any connection.