The Vice-Chairman of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Essam el-Erian, declared that "Israel will be erased within 10 years."
"The Jews conquering the historic Palestinian territories are an obstacle to the Right of Return and it is Israel's fate to collapse in the upcoming years," el-Erian, who is also Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s advisor and a senior member of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Islamist party linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, said.
"The future name of the country will be Palestine and those who lived there from the beginning will live there and those who conquered it will have to go back to their countries," he said.
Speaking to the Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, he called on Egypt’s Jews “to leave historic Palestine and return to the country from which they came."
"I have said that for the Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland, the occupiers of the land ... these occupiers have previous homelands, and I pray for the return of the Palestinians and for those who occupied their land to be deported."
He said that he was not speaking on behalf of Egypt but « on my own behalf. »
He continued: "There are an estimated 14 million Jews in the world and only about 6 million in the land of Palestine. They can go out to other places they consider the best for them. The Zionist ideology ended in failure and this project [Israel] fated to collapse in coming years."
"There will be no such thing as Israel, it will be called Palestine, where Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze and all the people who live there will remain Palestinian citizens. This is our faith and this is what we live and strive for. We tell all those who came and occupied Palestine to return to their countries," he said.
A spokesman for Morsi told Asharq Al-Awsat that el-Erian's remarks "do not represent the presidency because he is not speaking in an official capacity."