CAIRO: Syrian state television attacked Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday after a Turkish news agency quoted a presidential aide of looking at a potential Arab military intervention to end more than 18 months of violent conflict in Syria. The TV anchor lashed out at Cairo, saying, “Why don't you send the army to break the siege on Gaza – they're brothers as well,” asked the news anchor. He then accused President Morsi of receiving a $2 billion from the Qatari Emir “to facilitate the occupation of Jordan for the sake of Israel.” “What about canceling Camp David? We know that such a decision needs a will like that of the hero Gamal Abdel-Nasser, not those who tried to kill him,” the anchor went on. While the Muslim Brotherhood has categorically denied any role in the assassination attempt of Nasser, some maintain that the Islamic group was the mastermind behind the plot. The Syrian report came hours after a Morsi aide, Seif Abdel Fattah, reportedly said to Turkey's Anadoul news agency that Egypt was looking at a new Qatar proposal that would see an Arab force intervene in Syria to end the bloodshed that has left over 25,000 people dead since the March 15, 2011 beginning. At the United Nations last week, Morsi said no military intervention was on the table. His spokesman Yasser Ali, late on Sunday denied the Turkish report, saying that any military intervention in Syria was “out of the question.” That is the official policy, Ali added. The attack on Morsi comes as he has voiced concerns and called for an end to the violence in Syria. Syria's deputy prime minister, at the UN, said the government would like to end the violence, but “armed terrorist groups” remain.
