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September 13, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/11/first-report.html

The Islamist Message of the Arab Spring

(Newsweek-Daily Beast) Benny Morris - Many in the West have taken heart from the so-called Arab Spring, viewing the upheavals as heralds of democratic transformation. Israelis are less optimistic. The Islamist message that is coming out of Ankara, and moving to center stage in Cairo, includes a hard core of anti-Zionism usually accompanied by anti-Semitic overtones. Egypt's deposed president Hosni Mubarak is now denounced as a "stooge of the Zionists." A photo of Netanyahu, dressed in an SS uniform, with a Hitler mustache, making the Nazi salute, appeared on the cover of the popular Egyptian weekly October on Aug. 28. Inside, the journal carried an article called "The New Nazis" - and it isn't even an Islamist publication.

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