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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-rallies-against-israel-112348046.html
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Rallies Against Israel
(AP) Maggie Michael - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood staged an anti-Israel rally in Cairo on Friday, the first such protest since the 2011 uprising. Emerging from weekly services at Al-Azhar mosque - the centuries-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning - demonstrators chanted, "the people want the destruction of Israel," in protest of recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria and the detention of a Palestinian Muslim cleric. At one point, leading Brotherhood member Mohammed el-Beltagy took the microphone and shouted: "we will repeat it over and over, Israel is our enemy." One organizer whipped up the crowd in a chant urging the army to launch a war against Israel to "liberate Palestine...from the sons of monkeys and pigs."