Why can’t the United States of America or Israel ever seem to win their ‘endless wars’? Because they have yet to fight the real enemy. Israel’s air strikes on Iran at least targeted the actual IRGC backers of Oct 7, while the U.S. has yet to deal with the Saudi, Qatari and Pakistani governments behind 9/11. But there is a hidden enemy that can’t just be droned.
What did Osama bin Laden and Hamas have in common? Both were part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Even more than Iran or any government, it’s the Muslim Brotherhood that binds together worldwide terrorist threats with political domestic pressure campaigns. The spectrum of Brotherhood influence combines together not only armed Jihadis, but Qatar’s Al Jazeera and other media influence operations, CAIR and other internal Democrat pressure groups and a majority of the mosques operating inside the United States. And that’s only the beginning.
Created in Egypt in the first half of the century with Nazi funding, the Brotherhood is a political Jihadist movement operating through both terrorist armies and front groups to seize power. The Muslim Brotherhood’s many arms are as comfortable setting off bombs on buses as they are meeting with members of Congress, preaching murder and pretending to be moderates.
The Brotherhood, which was strongest at universities in Egypt and parts of the Middle East, now also controls most elite campuses in America, and most Muslim organizations in America. In Israel, the Brotherhood maintains multiple front groups, including some that serve in Israel’s Knesset parliament, that run mosques across the country and effectively run all of Gaza.
After Oct 7, Hamas pulled back into its tunnels with its hostages and put up a limited fight even as its ‘civilian’ or as the media calls it ‘political arm’ continued running hospitals, the police, aid groups, local and regional media, which it used to fake a torrent of ‘atrocities’ by Israel.
Western diplomats, leaders and ‘experts’ have claimed that Israel won the war on Hamas, and should retreat and make some sort of deal, but as long as Hamas is, as the international community refers to them, the “de facto authorities’ on the ground, then nothing has been won.
After Israel reclaimed Gaza in the Six Day War, the Muslim Brotherhood, which had worked hand-in-glove with the Egyptian government to use Gaza as a base for crossing the border and carrying out massacres in Israel, pretended that it had changed and was now peaceful. It used its control over Gaza mosques and social service groups to indoctrinate the Muslim population into waging a Jihad even while the Israelis, like our governments, hoped that the Muslim Brotherhood had moderated and was willing to live and let live.
Then when the time was right, the mosques turned out to be full of weapons, the imams provided bombmaking instructions and the Brotherhood’s Mujama al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Center, became Hamas. When Hamas loses battles, it folds back and hides out in mosques.
That’s why all the talk of a ceasefire in which Hamas ‘disarms’ (that the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group has rejected) would be meaningless because it would mean Hamas turning over its weapons to its own ‘Gaza police’ or some other political facade. And even if the weapons were turned over, as long as Hamas controls daily life in Gaza, it can organize, train, prepare, bring in more weapons and launch a new war any time it’s ready. Even if it takes years
America after 9/11 and Israel after Oct 7 focused on Jihad as ‘terrorism’ or a military conflict rather than a religious duty to kill and subjugate infidels imposed by the Koran on every devout Muslim. No matter how much money, how many soldiers or how many wars we fought against Jihadist forces, we never touched the core of their political organizations in local mosques.
Counterterrorism experts who knew better claimed that they could trick Muslims into moderating by recruiting mosques and Imams to teach them, which every Muslim child with even the lightest grounding in Islam knows better than to believe, that terrorism is against Islam.
The moderate Muslim gambit failed, but by then our counterterrorism ranks had been purged by Democrats and Republicans in thrall to Muslim Brotherhood front groups and no longer knew any better. The War on Terror became a ‘whack-a-mole’ game of taking out certain high-value Jihadists even as American cities were filled with mosques preaching Jihad against us.
The ‘experts’ pretended that the constant pace of Islamic terror attacks was the work of ‘lone wolves’ who, no matter how often they launched terror attacks and quoted the same verses, had just ‘misunderstood’ Islam and things would get better if we worked more closely with the Brotherhood’s mosques to teach the terrorists the true meaning of being moderate Muslims.
Beginning with Obama, the Israelis had negotiated a series of deals with Hamas which included, among other things, included giving the terror group economic rewards in exchange for quiet. The latest of these temporary agreements had been negotiated right before the Oct 7 attacks, and depended on the premise that the Muslim Brotherhood’s ‘civilian leadership’ was willing to moderate for economic reasons and would avoid further violence to get more money.
The catastrophic mistake led to the worst war in Israel’s modern history. And it won’t end until the Brotherhood is no longer able to operate in Israel’s territory. Just as our wars on terror won’t end until the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups are no longer able to operate in America.
Israelis are asking what the exit strategy for Gaza is. There isn’t one. Gaza is located next door to Israel. Oct 7 showed the folly of the ‘disengagement’ from Gaza and the forcible eviction of Jewish ‘settlers’ from their communities in Gaza. The only way to control territory is to physically control it. There are no shortcuts, no nation building or how to win hearts and minds with ‘three cups of tea’. Islamic terrorism does not emerge from anything except Islam. And while there are no ‘moderate’ forms of Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood is by far the most successful and dangerous Islamist operation in the world. Allowing it to exist is a suicide pact for any country.
That’s why even Arab Muslim countries have begun banning the Muslim Brotherhood, but America and Israel have yet to definitively ban and suppress all Brotherhood organizations.
To win in Gaza and eventually the West Bank, Israel has to detain and drive out every member of terrorist and terrorist adjacent groups. It’s not a new idea. In the early 90s, the Israelis deported most of the Hamas leadership to Jordan. The terrorists set up a tent camp demanding to be let back in. The UN, the Red Cross and the Bush and Clinton administrations rallied to advocate for Hamas and then demanded that Israel take Hamas leaders back. And Israel did.
The Oct 7 war should have already taught the Israelis that no matter how much they bend over backward to avoid harming ‘civilians’, they’ll still be charged with genocide. Likewise the Bush nation building efforts were smeared as a racist campaign to kill Muslims. America and Israel need to do the right thing to keep their people safe from the Brotherhood regardless of who screams about it, because going easy on the Jihadi ‘civilians’ has never worked anyway.
America and Israel should begin by outlawing the Brotherhood, all constituent groups, all groups that appeared in the documents seized in the post-9/11 raids and all groups whose leadership include Brotherhood members and past as well as present members of Brotherhood groups.
Membership in any Brotherhood group should be considered a basis for deportation for non-citizens and denaturalization followed by deportation if they’re citizens. America has these laws on the books, we’ve chosen not to use them. Israel certainly has the legal authority to do it, but a hostile radical leftist judiciary in both countries colluded to protect Brotherhood members (that is part of what the pre-Oct 7 leftist riots were about in Israel) and must be sidelined.
Israel must not just clean out terrorists in tunnels, but Brotherhood members in mosques, in aid groups, in hospitals, working for the UN and Al Jazeera, and the entire so-called ‘civilian’ government that controls Gaza. Those are the minimum conditions for any victory over Hamas, because the only way to defeat Hamas is to eliminate its Muslim Brotherhood parent group.
Unless they all go, the endless war will never end.
