The top cleric from Egypt's fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood -- which refuses to hold talks with Israel -- has denounced peace efforts with Israel, urging holy war to liberate Palestinian territories, the Yahoo News website reports today (November 22, 2012).
Today's call by Mohammed Badei came just a day after Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi -- who also hails from the Muslim Brotherhood -- succeeded in brokering a truce to end eight days of Israel-Hamas fighting.
Under the truce, Gaza's ruling Hamas will stop its rocket fire into Israel, while Israel will cease its airstrikes on Gaza and allow the opening of the strip's long-blockaded borders.
Badei says "jihad is obligatory" for Muslims and that peace deals with Israel are a "game of grand deception." He adds that there have been enough negotiations, and "the enemy knows nothing but language of force."
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