Islamic Spring: Muslim Brotherhood Wins Presidency in Egypt – Orders Hamas Grad Missile Attack on Israel


The remains of a rocket attack on Netivot in southern Israel. Photo by Eliyahu Hershkowitz (Haaretz)

The Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohammed Morsi won the presidential election in Egypt today.
The AP reported, via Pat Dollard:

The Muslim Brotherhood declared early Monday that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt’s presidential election, which would be the first victory of an Islamist as head of state in the stunning wave of protests demanding democracy that swept the Middle East the past year. But the military handed itself the lion’s share power over the new president, sharpening the possibility of confrontation.

With parliament dissolved and martial law effectively in force, the generals made themselves Egypt’s lawmakers, gave themselves control over the budget and will determine who writes the permanent constitution that will define the country’s future.

But as they claimed victory over Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq after a deeply polarizing election, the Brotherhood challenged the military’s power grab. The group insisted on Sunday that it did not recognize the dissolution of parliament or the military’s interim constitution – or its right to oversee the drafting of a new one.

That pointed to a potential struggle over spheres of authority between Egypt’s two strongest forces. The Brotherhood has campaigned on a platform of bringing Egypt closer to a form of Islamic rule, but the military’s grip puts it in a position to block that. Instead any conflict would likely center on more basic questions of power.

Meanwhile… Israeli Haaretz News is reporting that the Muslim Brotherhood ordered the grad missile attack on Israel this weekend.

Israeli security officials say that the rockets that landed on Friday in the area near Ovda and Mitzpeh Ramon, were launched after a request by senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. According to these officials, the rockets were launched from the Sinai Peninsula by a Bedouin unit, according to Hamas orders, even though Hamas itself wasn’t the initiator of the launching, but responded to the request of the Brotherhood, who wanted such an event on the eve of the second round of presidential elections in Egypt. It is yet unclear why the Brotherhood requested such an unusual action, a first military strike against Israel, or whether the strike was aimed at specific sites in the area.

Newsy.com has more video on the elections.

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