{UAH} HOW HILLARY LEARNED TO LOVE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

How Hillary Clinton Learned To Love The Muslim Brotherhood

RYAN LANDRY

Freelance Writer

 

One email buried within the most recent Hillary Clinton email data dumps calls into question the American stance and behavior towards the Muslim Brotherhood after the Arab Spring. Denials of knowing the true intent of the Muslim Brotherhood are hard to believe when faced with the information provided to former Secretary Clinton by former Director of Policy Planning Jake Sullivan. The email also calls into question the influence of longtime aide and fomer Clinton chief of staff Huma Abedin had on American policy during the tumultuous post-Arab Spring ouster of Mubarak.

Sullivan’s email from January 24th, 2012 quotes an “individual with extremely sensitive access to the highest levels of the Muslim Brotherhood.” In the email, the individuals relays how the Muslim Brotherhood held a series of meetings to consolidate their power after the most recent round of elections in order to enact their agenda. That agenda would involve the Muslim Brotherhood guiding the Egyptian state and society “toward becoming an Islamic Republic.” The Muslim Brotherhood was committed to working with select Western economic interests but that, “the new Egyptian Government will be completely committed to the rule of Islamic Law.” Sharia law has long been criticized for its compatibility with democracy as well as treatment of religious minorities, women and other human rights.

Beyond the Egyptian domestic situation, the email relayed information that involved the greater Middle East. The new government intended to change the decades long relationship between Israel and Egypt. As Sullivan reported:

In the opinion of this individual, the new Egyptian Government will redefine the relationship with the state of Israel, and while stopping short of supporting military action against Israel, they will distance themselves from the past era of cooperation. The most immediate result of this change, in the opinion of this knowledgeable individual: will be an end to cooperation with the Israeli security forces in controlling the movement of Hamas troops and equipment across the Egyptian border at Gaza. This particular individual believes that the Egyptian military and intelligence services will eventually begin to provide increased clandestine assistance to Hamas.

These are changes that would be a seismic shift in relations between America’s ally Israel and the most populous Arab nation. Basic understandings laid down from the Camp David Accords would be discarded and altered. Concern for such a realignment with important focus on the Sinai and Hamas’ movement of arms and personnel with regards to Israel is not discussed. After Egyptian elections in May and June — which emails released around those dates reveal no banter — there is no concern expressed for any potential flip in the Middle East.

 

 

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