Egypt's Prison of Hate
BY BRET STEPHENS, WSJ
Following the New Year's Eve massacre of a score of Coptic Christian worshipers outside a church in Alexandria, Egyptians are wasting no time fingering the likely culprit.
"With careful consideration," observes commentator Ammar Ali Hassan in the independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm, "the incident could lead to other interpretations, especially the application of the Zionist conspiracy against national unity in Egypt."
Going one better, Essam El-Irian, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, says that while he believes "the Israeli Mossad was behind the incident," he won't rule out the possibility that al Qaeda itself may now be under Israeli operational ...
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