The Muslim Brotherhood avoided confronting Israel and was favored by occupation authorities

Evidence

In the Sunni tradition, we can take the example of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Palestine. From about 1967 they shied away from openly organizing against or confronting the state of Israel, which is why they were favored by the occupation authorities. Historically, this trend has been justified by muslim religious scholars (ulama) using two arguments: first, that it is better to have tyranny than anarchy, because the latter would lead to the dissolution of the ummah, the community of believers; second, that a Muslim ruler, even a corrupt and unjust one, is necessary in order to defend the land of Islam against infidels. This reasoning has been used time and again through history to justify the reign of corrupt and cruel rulers. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 318

Categorization

• XREF: Ties directly to the reader’s guiding question about how the imperial/Zionist project relates to Islamist currents — quietism served the occupation. — connects to: A leaked NSC memo depicted the OIC and Muslim Brotherhood as a monolithic mafia — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 687; The US courted even a violent Muslim Brotherhood against Nasser — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 225
• QUESTION: Nuclear point for the reader’s inquiry: the occupation favored a nonconfrontational Islamist group, so who was funding whom?