Saturday, March 24, 2012

Egypt’s Election Victors Seek Shift by Hamas to Press Israel - NYTimes.com

Egypt’s Election Victors Seek Shift by Hamas to Press Israel - NYTimes.com: "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."

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