Today's visitation from the
things that go bump in Thomas P. Friedman's night is our old friend the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, whose officials are
telling the Times that they have been telling their daughter organization Hamas to moderate its stances a bit and try to find more common ground with the atheist Fatah, by way of forming more of a common front in negotiations with Israel.
Brotherhood officials say that they are pulling back from their previous
embrace of Hamas and its commitment to armed struggle against Israel in
order to open new channels of communications with Fatah, which the
Brotherhood had [jump]