{"id":2250,"date":"2011-02-01T15:15:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2011-02-01T15:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:15:25","slug":"israel-diary-jeremy-bowen-in-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/01\/israel-diary-jeremy-bowen-in-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Diary – Jeremy Bowen in Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had to laugh at BBC Middle East reporter Jeremy Bowen’s take on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on the BBC News website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Unlike the jihadis, it does not believe it is at war with the West. It is conservative, relatively moderate and non-violent. But it is highly critical of Western policy in the Middle East.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bowen completely ignores the fact that Mubarak has been suppressing any whiff of Islamism, fearing just the sort of uprising from the extremists that the pro-democracy activists are now engaged in. He misses the point that the Brotherhood is patient and lies low, even now, to later pounce and develop a new highly dangerous, anti-Western, anti=Israel and anti-Christian policy when it can wield power and influence over the people.<\/p>\n

The contrast between Bowen’s apparent laid back attitude to the threat of the Brotherhood and his views on the Netanyahu government in Israel as ‘right-leaning’ is marked.<\/p>\n

Bowen ignores the effect on Israel of a Hizbullah\/Iranian proxy in Lebanon, Iranian-backed Hamas in Gaza, Al Qaeda linked Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and, no doubt, a terrified King Abdullah in Jordan who, at least, can flee to Britain should the worse come to the worse.<\/p>\n

Will the Palestinians in the West Bank then be emboldened to raise a third intifada and oust Palestinian Authority President Mohmoud Abbas, replace him with Hamas and bring more international outrage on Israel’s head for defending itself?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Damascus, President Assad lies waiting for his big chance to seize back the Golan.<\/p>\n

Bowen seems somewhat sanguine about the Domesday scenario since he ignores it completely.<\/p>\n

Maybe he is easily fooled by the term ‘Brotherhood’,<\/p>\n

One thing is almost for certain; the Muslim Brotherhood will have some place in the Egyptian government.<\/p>\n

Will the Brotherhood be to the new Egyptian government as the Nazis were to Weimar Repuplic in the 1930’s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I had to laugh at BBC Middle East reporter Jeremy Bowen’s take on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on the BBC News website: Unlike the jihadis, it does not believe it is at war with the West. It is conservative, relatively moderate and non-violent. But it is highly critical of Western policy in the Middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,1],"tags":[10,120,1137,12,163,4,527,278,820,534],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel-palestine","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-egypt","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hizbullah","tag-israel","tag-jeremy-bowen","tag-king-abdullah","tag-muslm-botherhood","tag-syria","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}