Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Fatah Are All Fine Upstanding Peace Partners!

It is not hard to find self proclaimed experts that the Muslim Brotherhood provides an opportunity for peace.

Of course, doing that requires ignoring the fact that Muslim Brotherhood wants end to Egypt-Israeli peace deal:

Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood movement has unveiled its plans to scrap a peace treaty with Israel if it comes to power, a deputy leader said in an interview with NHK TV.

Rashad al-Bayoumi said the peace treaty with Israel will be abolished after a provisional government is formed by the movement and other Egypt's opposition parties.

"After President Mubarak steps down and a provisional government is formed, there is a need to dissolve the peace treaty with Israel," al-Bayoumi said.

But instead, the same people who gloss over the Muslim Brotherhood's history of violence, terrorism and assassination, also wax poetic on the virtues of negotiating with the Palestinian Authority, this despite the fact that the Fatah Constitution advocates the complete construction of Israel:

Article (12) Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.

Article (19) Armed struggle is a strategy and not a tactic, and the Palestinian Arab People's armed revolution is a decisive factor in the liberation fight and in uprooting the Zionist existence, and this struggle will not cease unless the Zionist state is demolished and Palestine is completely liberated.

Article (22) Opposing any political solution offered as an alternative to demolishing the Zionist occupation in Palestine, as well as any project intended to liquidate the Palestinian case or impose any international mandate on its people.

Sure, you'll read and believe the selective release of the notes on which the "Palestine Papers" are based on, but when the Fatah constitution calls for the complete destruction of Israel and the opposition to peace talks--no one pays attention.

Not surprisingly, again these same people say that Hamas has to be included in peace talks--despite the fact that in their charter, Hamas also seeks the destruction of Israel:

the Islamic Resistance Movement erupted in order to play its role in the path of its Lord. In so doing, it joined its hands with those of all Jihad fighters for the purpose of liberating Palestine. The souls of its Jihad fighters will encounter those of all Jihad fighters who have sacrificed their lives in the land of Palestine since it was conquered by the Companion of the Prophet, be Allah’s prayer and peace upon him, and until this very day. This is the Charter of the Islamic Resistance (Hamas) which will reveal its face, unveil its identity, state its position, clarify its purpose, discuss its hopes, call for support to its cause and reinforcement, and for joining its ranks. For our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave, so much so that it will need all the loyal efforts we can wield, to be followed by further steps and reinforced by successive battalions from the multifarious Arab and Islamic world, until the enemies are defeated and Allah’s victory prevails.

And like Fatah, Hamas also opposes the idea of peaceful negotiations:

The so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement. For renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion; the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its faith, the movement educates its members to adhere to its principles and to raise the banner of Allah over their homeland as they fight their Jihad.

Let's face it, there is nothing Islamists can do or say that will stop those who are intent on ignoring the words and actions of terrorists--instead blindly repeating the same mantra that all it takes is negotiations.

Neville Chamberlain is not rolling over in his grave.

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