Gaza and the Civil War within Islam

Seeing the war in Gaza as part of a “civil war” within the Islamic world, Aryeh Tepper stresses Hamas’s origins in the Muslim Brotherhood, whose ideology rests on claims that render most Arab states illegitimate. Hamas today aligns itself with the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose Shiite founders drew deeply on the writings of the Brotherhood’s Sunni theorists. On the other side are what Tepper calls the “anti-Islamist league” of Morocco, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt, whose foreign ministers gathered in Israel for a summit last year. This group now finds itself on the defensive: