By Issandr El Amrani
"........Over the last week there was much talk ... over whether or
not to negotiate with the Brothers or break their sit-ins. The camp that
eventually won does not just believe that the Brothers are not worth negotiating
with. They want to encourage it in its provocative sectarian discourse, its
supporters' desire for violence, and push as much as the Islamist camp as
possible into being outlaws.
Those who nurture such eradicateur sentiment do not so much
actually want to physically eradicate all Islamists as to provoke them into a
situation where their political existence will be eradicated because they will
have opted for violence. They are willing to endure that violence, even a return
to the counter-insurgency of the 1990s, and sporadic sectarian and terrorist
attacks, because they believe it will strengthen their camp and enable them to
permanently block most Islamists from politics ...
Their thinking is cynical in the extreme, not unlike Bashar
al-Assad's push towards militarising the political conflict he faced [in Syria]
in 2011........"
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