Via Al-Ahram:

Deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party Essam El-Erian says developments in the ongoing crisis in Syria have shown the difference between the Gaza-based Hamas group and Lebanese Shia Hezbollah group, both of which were originally founded to resist Israeli occupation.

“Hamas has never pointed a weapon towards any other nation. They withdrew from Syria and did not compromise their principles at the expense of losing support and key establishments in Syria,” El-Erian said Sunday in a statement on Facebook.

“Hizbullah, however, has directly intervened against the revolutionary people of Syria by supporting a despotic regime (Al-Assad) and pointing their weapons at their fellow Arabs, not the Zionist enemy.”

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, announced the end of diplomatic ties with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime during an Islamist-organised event in Cairo Saturday, held in support of the Syrian uprising.