Brotherhood members admit exploiting Jerusalem and harming Palestinian cause

Doaa Emam

The Brotherhood has fabricated fake battles that ended in false heroism, which the group’s leaders wrote down in their memoirs without evidence. Over time, many dissidents were able to reveal the falsity of those heroics, confirming the Brotherhood’s contradiction in dealing with the Palestinian cause, which raises questions about the place of the issue among the group’s concerns.

Shouting flies

Recently, the Brotherhood’s cyber flies shouted on social media platforms, while its leaders did so via Qatari channels, following the peace agreement concluded by the United Arab Emirates and Israel, as the terrorist group intensified its bids against Arab countries, peoples and rulers regarding the Palestinian issue.

 Insider testimonies

According to the testimonies of those within or close to the Brotherhood, it is the group that has harmed the Palestinian cause the most. Mohsen Mohammad Saleh, in his book “The Road to Jerusalem: A Historical Study in Observing the Islamic Experience in the Land of Palestine”, stated that Hani Bseiso, the Brotherhood comptroller in Palestine, rejected the proposal of some members of the group to establish a special organization that does not have an Islamic appearance but rather carries the slogan of liberating Palestine through armed struggle, with the aim of opening channels of communication between the Brotherhood and the masses, lifting the siege on them, and keeping the Palestinian cause alive. But Bseiso refused a desire to keep donations and weapons in the hands of the Brotherhood without preoccupying them with the future of the cause or resisting the occupation in a way that would contribute to its evacuation from Palestine.

Secret history

It is also possible to refer to the testimony of Ali Ashmawi, a prominent leader of the group, in his memoirs entitled “The Secret History of the Muslim Brotherhood,” in which he explained the exploitation of the Palestinian cause. “They demand opening the door for volunteering to save Al-Aqsa (Jerusalem), and this means opening training camps and opening the door for donations to collect money again, then buy weapons, then store it for the Brotherhood,” he wrote.

“The Brotherhood’s coffers are piled up with money from Muslim donations, and what happened in 1948 and much more is repeated,” Ashmawi added, referring to the alleged role of the Brotherhood in the Palestine War in 1948. He stressed that they only entered very few battles, and then orders were issued for them not to participate in any battles, on the pretext that there was a plot to assassinate the Mujahideen. The orders were implemented, and the Brotherhood remained in their camp, not to fight, until they returned from Palestine.

Pragmatic guardians

Meanwhile, Tarek Abu al-Saad, a researcher of Islamist movements and a former member of the Brotherhood, told the Reference that the Brotherhood is a group that sees itself as the guardian of the Arab and Islamic nation, and that their mission is to raise the nation and peoples again, viewing themselves as a pragmatic group that eats at all tables, with no objection to politics, revolutions, conspiracies, or agreements with the West, as long as this will lead them to power and secure it for them as long as possible.

Abu al-Saad added that the reality is a testament to the Brotherhood’s shameful stances that reveal the falsity of what they wrote in their memoirs about what they had offered to support the Palestinian cause and resist the Zionist enemy.

He pointed out that the Brotherhood bends the truth and claims that they are the only defenders of the cause, while they did not provide anything, instead passing over many situations unnoticed without taking any reaction commensurate with their claims.