CAIRO — A spokesman for President Mohammed Morsi said Wednesday that inflammatory comments that he made about Jews before taking office had been intended as criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians but had been taken out of context. The spokesman said that Morsi respected all monotheistic religions and religious freedom.
It was Morsi’s first public response to reports that as a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood he had made anti-Semitic statements about Jews and Zionists. A recently resurfaced video of a speech that Morsi gave at a rally in his hometown in the Nile Delta nearly three years ago shows him urging his listeners ‘‘to nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews.’’ Ina television interview he gave the same year, Morsi criticized Zionists in recognizably anti-Semitic terms, as ‘‘these bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.’’
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The mendacity that the US has to swallow in the name of diplomacy is disturbing.
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In his heart, Morsi hates Israel, the US and Western liberal values. But he wants U.S. aid dollars for his dysfunctional economy so he walks back his toxic remarks of several years ago.
However if he doesn't get US aid, he will ask Iran for aid. And Iran will happily provide it. And Obama's ARROGANCE towards Americans is completely matched by his foreign policy COWARDICE.
"CAIRO — A spokesman for President Mohammed Morsi said Wednesday that inflammatory comments that he made about Jews before taking office had been intended as criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians but had been taken out of context. The spokesman said that Morsi respected all monotheistic religions and religious freedom" And the AP *Administration's Propaganda says this with a straight face. This couldn't possibly be a failure of Obama's "Hightly Successful" Arab Spring offensive. ..And meanwhile the AP, the Boston Globe, and Obama's new mouthpiece Colin Powell, expect us to believe that Chuck Hagel's remarks about the "Jewish Lobby" were also taken out of context.
ALSO, by the way, AP does NOT report that Mohammed Morsi has demanded that Obama release the Blind Sheik, mastermind iof the 1993 World Trade Center truck bombing. Republicans have demanded that Barack Obama publicly reject Morsi's demand. Obama has NOT rejected the demand.
Excellent point.