The Muslim Brotherhood Has Betrayed the Egyptian Army Since the 1948 War… A Journalist Presents the Evidence
Journalist Hossam El-Ghamry has accused the Muslim Brotherhood of maintaining a long record of betrayal and hostility toward the Egyptian military establishment, describing the group as “a dagger in the side of the nation” at every critical moment in the country’s modern history.
Speaking on Al-Hayat TV, El-Ghamry reviewed a series of historical events that he said prove the Brotherhood’s betrayal. Among them:
— The 1948 Palestine War: he pointed to the group’s assassination of Egypt’s Prime Minister and military governor at the time, an act intended to destabilize the domestic front while the Egyptian army was fighting in Palestine.
— The 1954 British Evacuation Negotiations: the Brotherhood was accused of spreading false information in coordination with British occupation forces to undermine the Egyptian army’s position during talks to end the occupation.
— The 1956 Suez Crisis: El-Ghamry claimed the Brotherhood operated eleven radio stations aimed at defaming the army’s image and spreading rumors to demoralize the Egyptian people.
— After the 1967 Defeat: he said the group financed and distributed high-quality propaganda leaflets targeting Egyptians abroad in an effort to weaken domestic stability — an act that the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser publicly condemned at the time.
El-Ghamry argued that the Brotherhood’s hostility toward the Egyptian state and its army stems from deep political motives. Their rejection of the 1973 October Victory, he said, was rooted in the fact that it reinforced the legitimacy of the 1952 July Revolution, which had deprived the Brotherhood of what it considered its “right to rule,” viewing itself as the true heir of the Muhammad Ali dynasty. Thus, the conflict, he emphasized, has never been merely political but rather a struggle over the legitimacy of governance and the identity of the Egyptian state itself.
These allegations come amid ongoing media campaigns by the Brotherhood against the Egyptian government. The state’s official narrative holds that the group’s goals have always clashed with the concept of a modern national state, and that its relentless pursuit of power has repeatedly driven it to conspire against Egypt’s higher interests—especially in times of war and national crisis.
