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.
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.”
The outcome of Egypt’s crisis will have a “great effect” on Jordan, Arshid said in the telephone interview, as influential regional and world powers consider the Middle East an “indivisible whole,” with strategies devised to thwart “modern Arab aspirations towards freedom.”
On Syria, the Brotherhood leader pointed to Israel, whose interests are the “weakening or destroying [of] both warring Syrian factions, the regime and opposition.”
