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with the Taliban. 40
    During a 2009 speech on Al-Jazeera, al-Qaradawi openly fantasized about doing some Jew-killing of his own:
    I’d like to say that the only thing I hope for is that as my life approaches its end, Allah will give me an opportunity to go to the land of Jihad and resistance, even if in a wheelchair. I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus, I will seal my life with martyrdom. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. 41
     
    This is nothing less than incitement to genocide, broadcast far and wide across the Muslim world via satellite. Yet every Muslim Brotherhood–linked figure I’ve interviewed can agree on one thing: they absolutely revere Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Indeed, his views on Jews and Israel are par for the course within the Ikhwan movement. The destruction of Israel is a key, foundational principle for the Brotherhood on which the movement will never compromise, no matter how much extortion money the U.S. government coughs up.

    Thanks to Mohammed Morsi’s rise, Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel, forged in 1979, will eventually be history. It’s not a matter of if, but when. In their guts, Israeli leaders know this. They also know that what was almost unthinkable as recently as 2010—a military confrontation of some kind with their populous, heavily-armed southern neighbor and historical nemesis—is a distinct possibility sometime in the next few years.
    The Muslim Brotherhood’s hatred of the Jews is implacable, and fighting a war against Israel would help Morsi deflect public attention from food shortages, high levels of unemployment, and sectarian strife at home.
    A 2012 poll by The Israel Project, a Washington, D.C.–based advocacy group, found that 77 percent of Egyptians agreed that, “The peace treaty with Israel is no longer useful and should be dissolved.” 42
    Already, in the wake of Mubarak’s ouster, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has become a launching pad for terror attacks and rockets against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
    When I arrived in Israel in August 2011 to co-host some of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Courage” live events, I was greeted with news of one such attack that had occurred only minutes before. Jihadists striking out of Sinai had fired on tour buses near the Israeli resort town of Eilat, killing eight Israeli civilians and wounding several more. Returning fire on the terrorists, Israel Defense Forces unintentionally killed six Egyptian soldiers.
    Despite an immediate Israeli apology, Egypt’s Brotherhood pounced, blaming the incident on Israel. One top MB leader hinted at military retaliation for the Egyptian soldiers’ accidental deaths, warning that, “Zionists should realize that Egyptian blood now has a price, and it’s a very high price after the success of our blessed revolution.” 43 A year later, the Brotherhood—always game to market wild anti-Semitic conspiracy theories—publicly accused Israel’s Mossad intelligence service of orchestrating yet another Sinai flare-up that saw jihadists storm an Egyptian police compound and kill sixteen policemen. 44
    Yes, the “blessed revolution” has done wonders for Egypt, Sinai in particular. The area has always been a sort of lawless zone where thieves, bandits, smugglers, and traffickers have plied their various illegal trades. Today, however, Sinai is taking on a much more sinister shape. Under Morsi’s stewardship, it has become an Islamic terror base—including for al-Qaeda—and a front in the global jihad on Israel’s southern border.
    “What we see [in Sinai] today is a kind of coalition between the Salafis, some of them coming from Yemen, from Saudi Arabia, Palestinians and Bedouins,” Israeli terrorism expert Dr. Ely Karmon told me in late 2012. 45 Incidentally, Israel controlled Sinai from 1967 until it withdrew from the area altogether in 1982 as part of the Camp David Accords. Ah, the endless benefits of “land for peace.”
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