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The Muslim Brotherhood and "Resistance Axis" - Partners in Destruction
(Asharq Al-Awsat) Nadim Koteich - President Trump's designation as Foreign Terrorist Organizations of certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon closes a chapter that Western capitals had avoided for years - a delayed recognition of what our region already knows: The Muslim Brotherhood is not a reformist movement, but a cross-border organization that uses chaos to survive and threaten Arab and Muslim countries. The climate before the October 2023 attack was paving the way for peace projects in the region, coupled with strategies for economic normalization and infrastructure integration with Israel, Arab countries, Europe and India. Saudi Arabia was seeking a political and economic turning point that would reshape the Middle East based on economy, development and interests, as well as reining in ideologies. This would have accorded the Palestinian cause a diplomatic path. The Al-Aqsa Flood Operation of Oct. 7 has dashed all of these hopes indefinitely. The perpetrators of the Al-Aqsa Flood dealt heavy blows to regional efforts that would have put an end to political Islam. The Brotherhood does not want to save the Palestinians as much as it wants to benefit from keeping them as fuel for their projects. Trump's executive order is recognition that the Brotherhood is an obstacle in any reshaping of the region. It becomes a greater obstacle given the close alignment between the Brotherhood and the "Resistance Axis," who are waging a battle against one enemy: the stable Arab national state. The writer is General Manager at Sky News Arabia.