Mere Rhetoric: Egyptian Court Allows MB Candidates Into Race

This would be the perfect time to help Egypt get nukes. Just absolutely perfect:

The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) has ruled in favor of eight members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who were earlier disqualified by the electoral commission from participating in the parliament's Upper House elections today, the online news portal Al-Jazeera.Net reported. The Muslim Brotherhood is a religion-based party and as such is banned from participating in any elections. However, members of the MB, who are running as independent candidates, may participate in the vote. The Upper House of the parliament has fewer authorities than the Lower House, but enjoys much prestige.

It's a little unfair of us to use news like this to mock Carter for arming Egypt to the teeth in Camp David, along with giving them back the Sinai. Unfair because Israel supported that peace deal, and we sometimes use parallel Israeli support for Oslo to castigate pro-Israeli readers who foam at the mouth about our support of Peres. We have a pretty robust defense of how they're different - things like "having Israel's best interests at heart" or "everything Peres says and does seems well thought out, while Carter may indeed be a latently anti-Semitic good ole boy". For now, suffice to say that being hypocritical doesn't make us wrong - it just makes us, at worst, hypocrites. Oh, and also: great job Carter!

References:
* Egyptian Islamists Want Nukes. Another Victory For Carter The Peacemaker! [MR]

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