With runoffs coming to an end in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has released a projection saying that they have won 232 seats, or 46 percent of the 498 seats available in the lower house of parliament.
If true, this would leave the Muslim Brotherhood just 18 seats shy of a voting majority in the parliament, and essentially the only party that will be in the discussion of heading up the first freely elected government in Egypt.
The Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) was seen as just one of several possible players before the vote began, but quickly established itself as the biggest player after the first round, and secured even larger portions of the vote in subsequent rounds.
The second place finishing al-Nour Party, a Salafist Party, is seen pulling in 113 seats by the Muslim Brotherhood’s reckoning, though they claimed themselves to have 120 seats projected, showing that there is still a little give in these figures.
Since both the FJP and al-Nour are Islamist parties, many have seen them as a likely coalition, but given the FJP’s overwhelming victory in the elections and their recent attempts to position themselves are a more moderate faction they may attempt to build a different coalition, and indeed can build one out of themselves and virtually any parties they see fit to include.
The US must attack Egypt, to secure, that voters may only be counted by Mossad operatives. To make the US safe, of course. Pure logic for democratic idealists!
I wonder how Israel will enjoy the new friends next door. It is amazing how Israel could have created friendly governments and ended the useless blood letting but chose to ignore reality and to believe they would always be the most powerful. Europe is an economic disaster and the USA is very close. Who is going to support the bloated nation of israel?
It is the end of the line for both israel/america in the middle east.america can only bray like a jackass but that is all and we can all live with that.
During the American-supported reign of Mubarak, it was the Muslim Brotherhood who looked after the Egytian people. It is only fitting they should be elected into a prominent position.
That the West doesn't like it, well, too bloody bad!
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Bad time to be one of the millions-strong ancient Christian community in Egypt. I'm glad I don't live in a country such as Egypt, Lebanon, Iran or Israel, defined by religious identity and dominated by theocratic/sectarian politics – not yet, anyway.
Incidentally, it has long been the hope of Zionist strategists that their Arab neighbors would tear themselves apart along sectarian lines and rearrange their identity according to religion rather than linguistic nationality. This not only further divides and weakens the Arabs, but also reduces their politics to the same level of reactionary medieval identity as Israel's.
This "Divide-the-Arab-World" theme was clearly stated at least as long ago as Oded Yinon's 1982 article in "Kivunim". It was restated by Richard Perle's "Clean Break" proposal in the 1990s and in PNAC's schemes a few years later.It has guided policies toward Iraq and Syria have been the victims of the strategy since the Reagan years.
It is a real shame that the present generation of Arabs is so young and poorly educated. The Arabs of the 1950s, 60s and 70s would never have fallen into the trap.