Mohamed Morsi

Mohamed Morsi in 2013

Mohamed Morsi (8 August 1951 – 17 June 2019) was an Egyptian politician who served as the fifth President of Egypt. He was deposed by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Quotes

• The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine. What they took before 1947-8 constitutes plunder, and what they are doing now is a continuation of this plundering. By no means do we recognize their Green Line. The land of Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, not to the Zionists.
  • Morsi in 2010, as quoted by Rod Freidman in Egypt’s Morsi, in 2010 interviews posted online, called Zionists ‘bloodsuckers’ and descendants of pigs, urged to sever all ties with Israel, Times of Israel (4 January, 2013)

• These futile [Israeli-Palestinian] negotiations are a waste of time and opportunities. The Zionists buy time and gain more opportunities, as the Palestinians, the Arabs, and the Muslims lose time and opportunities, and they get nothing out of it. We can see how this dream has dissipated. This dream has always been an illusion… This [Palestinian] Authority was created by the Zionist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests... No reasonable person can expect any progress on this track. Either [you accept] the Zionists and everything they want, or else it is war. This is what these occupiers of the land of Palestine know — these blood-suckers, who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs.
  • Morsi in 2010, as quoted by Rod Freidman in Egypt’s Morsi, in 2010 interviews posted online, called Zionists ‘bloodsuckers’ and descendants of pigs, urged to sever all ties with Israel, Times of Israel (4 January, 2013)

Quotes about Morsi

• This is a president threatening his own people. We don't consider him the president of Egypt.
  • Mohamed Abdelaziz, as quoted in Egypt army deployed amid Cairo tension, BBC News (3 July, 2013)
• Mr Morsi unfortunately undermined his own legitimacy by declaring himself as a pharaoh.
  • Mohamed ElBaradei, as quoted in Egypt army permits 'peaceful protest' amid Morsi anger, BBC News (5 July, 2013)