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Obama Administration Condemns Morsi’s ‘Deeply Offensive’ Anti-Israel Comments

Jan. 15, 2013 8:30pm Jason Howerton

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi made almost three years ago about Jews and called for him to repudiate what it called unacceptable rhetoric.

In a 2010 video, Morsi calls Israelis “descendents of apes and pigs” and “blood suckers.” He also referred to Americans as “enemies.”

In blunt comments, the White House and State Department said Morsi’s statements were “deeply offensive” and ran counter to the goal of peace in the region. The State Department, noting that a senior congressional delegation is now visiting Egypt, said the remarks complicated efforts to provide economic and military aid to Egypt.

“We believe that President Morsi should make clear that he respects people of all faiths and that this type of rhetoric is unacceptable in a democratic Egypt,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

Morsi was a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010 when, according to video broadcast last week on Egyptian television he asked Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred.” Months later, in a television interview, Morsi referred to Zionists as bloodsuckers who attack Palestinians, describing Zionists as “the descendants of apes and pigs.”

“We completely reject these statements as we do any language that espouses religious hatred,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters. “This kind of rhetoric has been used in this region for far too long. It’s counter to the goals of peace.”

Obama Administration Condemns Morsis Deeply Offensive Anti Isreal Rhetoric

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi poses prior a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister in Cairo on January 10, 2013. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi’s two-day trip aims at discussing the Syrian crisis and bilateral ties between Egypt and the Islamic republic. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

A group of senators, including Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Christopher Coons, D-Del., is currently in Cairo. Nuland said she expected they would make their views known to Egypt’s leadership.

Morsi’s remarks and the Obama administration’s rebuke marked a new point of tension in the complex relationship between the U.S. and Egypt’s fledgling democracy.

Since being elected in June of 2012 in the aftermath of the revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, Morsi has promised to abide by Egypt’s decades-old peace treaty with Israel. Morsi was also instrumental in facilitating a cease-fire in November between Israel and Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, despite his refusal to speak directly with Israeli officials.

The White House and State Department did acknowledge Morsi’s willingness during that crisis to work with the U.S. toward mutual goals, and said Egypt’s continuing commitment to its peace treaty with Israel is essential for U.S. relations with Egypt.

Egypt receives more than $1 billion a year in military and development aid from the U.S. as part of a package linked to its historic 1979 peace deal with Israel. The peace accord is a cornerstone of U.S. Mideast policy.

Nuland said Morsi’s actions as president in support of the peace treaty with Israel are laudable but only one part of picture.

“We will judge him by what he does,” she said. “What he has been doing is supporting that peace treaty, continuing to work with us, and with Israel on common goals, including in Gaza. But we’ll also judge him but what he says. And we think that these comments should be repudiated and they should be repudiated firmly.”

An official in Israel, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about an issue of such sensitivity, said the comments were a “big concern” but that Israel did not want to fuel tensions with Egypt.

The two sets of comments were first reported on Tuesday by the New York Times.

A Muslim Brotherhood official in Egypt reached by The Associated Press refused to comment on Washington’s reaction to Morsi’s remarks. Repeated requests to respond to Morsi’s comments received no response.

The silence reflected the deep sensitivity of the issue for Morsi and the Brotherhood, which is fiercely anti-Israeli and anti-U.S.

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Comments (27)

dustbunnieskill
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 9:22am
What side of the fence is Obama on? Heil Obama

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:47am
  Hey…meesterMorsi..Y’all are human and ALL HUMANS HAVE MONKEY-ANSESSTORS!!
  Hey…meesterMorsi..There are 3-types of animals…they tastelike chicken, beef and pork. all hogs monkeys, apes and humans are pork(a few others like rino’s, too). The early cannibals refferred humans as “long-pork”.
  
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GUYFROMMAINE
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 7:24am
Where to begin? I wonder if Obama feels that Morsi doesn’t know what is best for his own country? Does he feel bothered with having to deal with him everyday? Still, this adminstration does not get it. Morsi doesn’t tolerate a whole people. This goes far beyond their faith. The Muslims want to get rid of all Jews using whatever means to accomplish this. The whole goal of “Palestinians” as a “people” and “nation” is to wipe out the Jews. This is the goal of Arabs and Muslims, as a whole, in the surrounding countries as well.

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Imprimatur
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:15am
But we’ll send you those brand spanking new fighter jets and billions more in military and economic aides as punishment for your unacceptable statements all of which you will use to undermine our interest in the region and attack our allies.

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betterpart
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:05am
AOL HUFFPOST embraces people like this Morsi character.

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Junter
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 3:34am
Sounds like the right spokes person for the religion of peace. US Libs must be so proud to support this nut and his wacky followers.

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waspanglosaxon
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 1:56am
I find nothing reprehensible at all about Pres. Morsi’s comments. Only when Israel ceases to exist will any lasting peace ever come to the Middle East. Any American who supports Zionism is endorsing continual war that will do America no good whatsoever. Backing the wrong side in an ongoing conflict is the quickest path toward national destruction.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:23pm
Obama is acting again. He is acting like he is really angry with Morsi for talking bad about the Israelis. He is so mad at Morsi obama is going to fine him one dollar out of the 2 billion he will give him this year. He will also withdraw his promise of a beautiful stump broke goat he bought from Afghanistan and was going to send to Morsi as a gift. Obama is keeping her. She is prettier than Michelle and doesn’t argue as much.

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Zipit
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:14pm
No problem! Play nice for a while and we’ll send you some f-16s!!!!

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- dwilco77
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:29pm
  May he be buried with a coffin made of Pork sausage.
  
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tzion
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:12pm
“We believe that President Morsi should make clear that he respects people of all faiths and that this type of rhetoric is unacceptable in a democratic Egypt.”

Umm…Did I miss something? Wasn’t the whole point that he clearly DOESN’T respect people of all faiths? Is Carney saying that Morsi should lie about how he feels in order to seem more agreeable than he actually is?

Here’s a better idea: instead of saying that Morsi should outright contradict himself in order to cover for your ineptitude while condemning what he said, why not just condemn Morsi himself for what he said? But of course that would be reasonable.

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MDECKER
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:29pm
Wink-wink!

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BODYBAG
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:30pm
“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

—- Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

Citizens File Articles of Impeachment Against Obama
http://www.infowars.com/citizens-file-article-of-impeachment-against-obama/

“There can no longer be any doubt – the forces of tyranny are running wild across our once great Republic. The time has come for all good men and women to rally to the aid of their country. We have now entered a historic crossroads that will decide the destiny of the United States. Arrogance and corruption has long festered in Washington DC, but the last decade has seen an extreme acceleration of criminal looting and attacks on liberty – every freedom is under sustained assault.”

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supermansdad
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:15pm
671grains of diplomacy?

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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:08pm
Gutter trash, accusing gutter trash of being gutter trash. Who would have ever thought that of our gutter trash? Not me

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mrshifter
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:45pm
And yet we send this most dispicable man and his kind million upon millions, all the while bad mouthing Isreal. Give me a break,

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:15pm
  Mrshifter: please clarify your statement. Were you talking about Obama or morosi? Or both?
  
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- gyro
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:55pm
  my guess both
  BUT
  foreign aid comes in many types some humanitarian
  
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TotallyNotATroll
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:44pm
Surprise, a islamic Ally isn’t really our friend. I am so shocked, maybe we should send them more money or tanks.

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Cavallo
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:42pm
Yet we’re going to send them billions, and tanks and war planes? So Obama trusts them with weapons of war but not Americans?

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:55pm
  Hi Cavallo,
  
  Don’t forget the 2 US Military frigates to Turkey….
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:08pm
  they will lie to your face to get what they want from the infidel and then cut off his head when he feels the infidel is of no more use
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:12am
  OLDGUY49
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:08pm
  they will lie to your face to get what they want from the infidel and then cut off his head when he feels the infidel is of no more use
  —————————————–
  Barry or Morsi?
  
  They both have the same pattern rug burns
  
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THERAPTURCOMES
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:40pm
And yet the Obama administration is selling high tech weapons to Egypt that will very soon b e used in a war against Israel Psalm 83

We see Isaiah 17:1 & Isaiah 19 being fulfilled right in front of the worlds eyes and Obama is selling this type of high end weaponry that will be used on Israel???????

The resurrection/rapture comes http://youtu.be/ahEVxIzlxwo

The resurrection/rapture is pre tribulation

Rev 3:10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

(1) http://youtu.be/UwL3rKteOng

(2) http://youtu.be/k8nm5rMcozE

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The-Monk
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:36pm
“Obama Administration Condemns Morsi’s ‘Deeply Offensive’ Anti-Israel Comments…”

“…..as not offensive enough.”

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:48pm
  3 years after the fact?
  P O L I T I C A L T H E A T E R
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:40pm
  Notice it’s always the Obama administration, but never Obama who condemns Morsi. Just Carney, running around the West wing getting permission and ideas on how to make the President look legitimate. It’s like the election is still going. He had the podium and said nothing that I know of about Morsi and the Moslem Brotherhood. Nothing from Hillary either. Her girlfriend Houma’s momma is a Brotherhood agitator and supporter. Now we’ll just wait and see how many times she invokes the Fifth Amendment on Benghazi next week. Remember to keep count ok, and count how many times she feigns a temple rub caused by her Benghazi concussion.
  
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