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Kurtzer: Beware of the Muslim Brotherhood
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Rob Eshman - On Feb. 1, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel Daniel Kurtzer, who has known Hosni Mubarak for over 30 years, spoke at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University where he is Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies. "The Muslim Brotherhood since its founding in 1928 has one single goal, and that is to transform Egypt into an Islamic state, and once that's achieved its goal is to transform the Middle East into a pan-Arabist Islamic state....The Brotherhood has tactical flexibility, but that doesn't change their goals one iota....There needs to be great caution in simplistic analysis in how the Muslim Brotherhood will act with respect to power. And the question of whether or not this movement will try to hijack a political movement for its own purposes will be kept squarely in mind. This is on the minds of the Egyptian military."