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Jordan Brotherhood Leader Says Morsi Ousted for Opposing Israel

The deputy leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, Zaki Bani Arshid, warns in an exclusive interview that Egypt's crisis will have a "great effect" on Jordan.
Supporters of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Action Front party attend a rally in Amman February 18, 2011. Several thousand Jordanian supporters of the country?s largest opposition party, the Islamic Action Front, held a rally to celebrate the new Egypt on Friday and the people power that swept away autocrat Hosni Mubarak in just 18 days.  REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2IS5R
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was overthrown due to his “objection to the Israeli war against Gaza,” the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Zaki Bani Arshid, told Al-Monitor in an exclusive interview.

Morsi’s ouster had nothing to do with his internal performance, the Brotherhood leader contended, adding that Jordan’s King Abdullah II’s visit to Egypt after the coup went “contrary to the will of the Jordanian people.”

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