A top adviser to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has declared that Israel will cease to exist in a decade, and is suggesting that Jews of Egyptian descent should evacuate the Jewish State and return to Egypt in order to make room for Palestinian refugees. The Muslim Brotherhood, to which the government and the president are linked, rushed to distance the movement from the statements made by Essam al-Aryan, who was quoted to that effect by the London-based newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat. Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Mahmoud Ghozlan emphasized that, in contrast to al-Aryan’s statements, Egyptian Jews were not welcome back to their ancestral homes in Egypt but were in fact “criminals who must be punished for what they did to Egypt and the Palestinians.”

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