{"id":1801,"date":"2011-12-01T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T21:36:50","slug":"muslim-brotherhood-takes-elections-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/muslim-brotherhood-takes-elections-by-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Brotherhood Takes Elections by Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/150311#.TtfyYxwmAS6\">IsraelNationalNews.com<\/a><br \/>\nJudges overseeing the vote count in Egypt&#8217;s parliamentary elections say Islamist parties have won a majority of the contested seats in the first round. The judges spoke on condition of anonymity because official results are expected to be released later Thursday.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/static\/Resizer.ashx\/news\/250\/168\/298206.jpg?resize=250%2C168\" title=\"muslim brotherhood\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They say the Muslim Brotherhood could take 45 percent of the seats up for grabs. The liberal Egyptian bloc coalition and the ultra-fundamentalist Nour party are competing for second place.<\/p>\n<p>Together, Islamist parties are expected to control a majority of parliamentary seats by March. This week&#8217;s vote was the first of six stages of parliamentary elections that will last until then.<\/p>\n<p>Continued success by Islamists will allow them to give Cairo&#8217;s government and constitution a decidedly Islamist character. It could also lead Cairo to shift away from the West towards the Iranian axis.<\/p>\n<p>It will also diminish the influence of Cairo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caretaker junta, which has sought to maintain the Mubarak-era status quo and keep US foreign aid dollars \u00e2\u20ac\u201c running into the billions per annum \u00e2\u20ac\u201c flowing.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say Islamists may also seek to annul the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, which could prompt Israel to seize the Sinai Peninsula for the fourth time in its history to create a strategic buffer zone.<\/p>\n<p>After reaching the Suez Canal in 1967 and controlling the Sinai for twelve years,, Israel ceded Sinai to Egypt under the 1979 treaty on condition it remains demilitarized.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim Brotherhood, which birthed the virulently anti-Israel Hamas terror militia, might also seek to effectively annex Gaza. Should Hamas be triumphant in future PA elections, they would also gain a foothold in Judea and Samaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IsraelNationalNews.com Judges overseeing the vote count in Egypt&#8217;s parliamentary elections say Islamist parties have won a majority of the contested seats in the first round. The judges spoke on condition of anonymity because official results&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[737,232],"tags":[57,3063,3064,3065,307,740,3062],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}