'Muslim Brotherhood' President Morsi On Policies U.S. Needs to Follow: "Respect for Arab Values, Commitment to Palestine."

'Muslim Brotherhood' President Morsi On Policies U.S. Needs to Follow: "Respect for Arab Values, Commitment to Palestine."(NYT).On the eve of his first trip to the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly on Sunday, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in an interview with The New York Times said the U.S. needed to show greater respect for the values in the Arab World and help build a Palestinian state, if it hoped to overcome decades of pent-up anger.

Following are the highlights of the interview. To read it in its entirety, please click here.

“I grew up with the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said. “I learned my principles in the Muslim Brotherhood. I learned how to love my country with the Muslim Brotherhood. I learned politics with the Brotherhood. I was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.” 

“If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment."

“If Washington is asking Egypt to honor its treaty with Israel, Washington should also live up to its own Camp David commitment to Palestinian self-rule.”

“Successive American administrations essentially purchased with American taxpayer money the dislike, if not the hatred, of the peoples of the region,” by backing dictatorial governments over popular opposition and supporting Israel over the Palestinians.