Islam, Democracy and the Arab Spring: An Interview with Raphael Israeli

by Jerry Gordon and Michael Bates (January 2012)

1330AM WEBY of Pensacola, Florida and Senior Editor Jerry Gordon of the New English Review interviewed Professor Israeli.

Also you may watch this earlier interview with Professor Israeli at the 2010 NER Symposium in Nashville.

Bates:  Good afternoon and welcome to Your Turn.  This is a special edition of Your Turn.  This is Mike Bates.  Jerry Gordon, Senior Editor of the New English Review and its blog the Iconoclast is with me in the studio.  Jerry, welcome.

Gordon:  Good to be here Mike.

Israeli:  Thank you very much. I am glad to be with you.

quoted Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Leader Dr. Rashad Bayoumi, as saying that they will not recognize Israel. They call it “an occupying criminal entity” and that they will absolutely take legal procedures towards cancelling the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel and the whole Zionist entity, all the standard propaganda nonsense. They were plainly stating they do not intend to recognize Israel, they do not intend to abide by the peace treaty. If that is paramount, it sounds like this is going to be a colossal failure.

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