The Muslim Brotherhood has promised US officials that it will uphold the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, a US State Department spokeswoman said Thursday. Her statement effectively contradicted one made last week by a top Muslim Brotherhood official, who said his party was not bound by the 1979 treaty. Rashad al-Bayoumi, Muslim Brotherhood’s second in command, told the Al Hayat newspaper last week, "the Muslim Brotherhood will not recognize Israel under any circumstances and might put the peace treaty …More