For years, policymakers in Israel and across Europe have tried to separate the Muslim Brotherhood’s political facade from its extremist foundation. They hoped that engaging with the Brotherhood’s “moderate” vocabulary could foster stability, integrate Muslim communities and serve as a firewall against violent radicalism.

But events unfolding in Europe—supported by multiple intelligence reports from France, Belgium and the European Parliament—now expose this strategy as dangerously misguided. The Brotherhood is not an alternative to extremism. It is the ideological engine that drives it.

On Nov. 23, more than 70 European and international experts gathered in front of the International Criminal Court in The Hague to deliver a unified message: that the Muslim Brotherhood represents a global

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