Rashid Ghannouchi’s “moderate” Nahda party is raking in the voters in the Tunisian elections.

In May he said: “I bring glad tidings that the Arab region will get rid of the germ of Israel. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Hamas movement, once said that Israel would disappear before 2027. That date may be too far off; Israel may disappear before that.”

The writer is Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, and a Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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