Mudar Zahran: A New Dawn

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1. Mudar

   So then YOU get rid of the Muslim Brotherhood from your country.

   Enlist the Brits. If anyone is responsible they are.

   Jews should not be asked to pay in money or lives

2. Story of Muslim Brotherhood shutdown in Jordan

   Following the arrest last week of 16 Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated individuals trained and financed in Lebanon to develop a years long sabotage plot against and launch both missile and rocket attacks on the Hashemite Kingdom, Jordan took action Wednesday to outlaw the Brotherhood and confiscate its assets, The Times of Israel reports. All Muslim Brotherhood activities are henceforth banned, and any promotion of the group’s ideology is to be held accountable by law, said Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Fraya.

   The Muslim Brotherhood was also banned a decade ago, but Jordan officially licensed a “splinter group” and allowed the Brotherhood’s political party, Islamic Action Front, to engage in politics while restricting some of its activities. But in 2024, Islamic Action Front won the most seats in Jordan’s parliament. The seats are still mostly occupied by the current government’s supporters.

   After the government announced the outlawing, Jordanian police surrounded and searched the party’s headquarters in Amman. “It has been proven that members of the group operate in the dark and engage in activities that could destabilize the country,” the Jordanian ministry said. “Members of the dissolved Muslim Brotherhood have tampered with security and national unity, and disrupted security and public order.” The Brotherhood denied the allegations, but Jordan’s government published a video of confessions by the suspects, who had been referred to the state security court for trial. Conveniently, the Brotherhood announced that the individuals arrested, despite connections to the group, might have acted in an “individual capacity” to smuggle arms to Palestinians in the West Bank, per Reuters.

   The Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni group established in Egypt nearly 100 years ago by Islamic schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, officially claims it renounced violence decades ago. Arrests like this one in Jordan appear to negate this claim and support assertions by critics that the Brotherhood remains a brutal terrorist organization. Hamas emerged as an “outgrowth” (officially, at least) of the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood during the first intifada in 1987, according to the Department of National Intelligence’s Counter Terrorism Guide.

   Our senior policy analyst, however, says the notion that Hamas is merely an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood is a fallacy that mistakes the group’s nature: “[The Brotherhood] is not a tightly ordered hierarchical organization,” he says. “Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, just as [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey.”

   Erdogan’s ties to the Brotherhood date back to the 1970s. Despite making several reforms toward the goal of secularizing Turkey when he became prime minister in 2002, Erdogan maintained ties with the group. He staunchly backed the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohamed Morsi during the Egyptian crisis and gave 1,500 Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members asylum in Turkey after the 2013 Egyptian coup d’état, according to Al Arabiya News. The Brotherhood’s goal is the creation of an Islamic state subject to Sharia law, and its various arms—from Erdogan’s slippery ties with the group in Turkey to the political activities of the Islamic Action Front in Jordan—all work to advance that goal.

   Some experts, according to a report by The New York Times, say that Jordan’s sweeping ban on Wednesday may be related to global pushback against Hamas. Jon B. Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said as much:

   My guess is that the Jordanian government feels pressured by the Trump administration’s keenness to push people from the Gaza Strip to other countries. There is a way in which Gaza is in play now, which creates domestic concerns for the Jordanian government, which may make them less tolerant of political opposition and make them more fearful of domestic unrest.

   Although this isn’t the first time the Jordanian government has banned the Brotherhood, our senior policy analyst believes there is something relevant to be gleaned from this report: “The training in Lebanon is the key part of this story,” he says. “It shows wider cooperation between the Brotherhood and Iran, not just Hamas. Which, of course, makes sense.”

   During the 2006 Lebanon War between Lebanon and Israel, Iran firmly supported Hezbollah, and the diplomatic military ties between Iran and Jordan have mostly strengthened since then. That these brotherhood operatives were trained in Lebanon is a stark reminder of Iran’s and Hezbollah’s decades-long connections to the group, specifically in Lebanon, says Tablet News Editor Tony Badran:

   Iran’s outreach to the Lebanese franchise of the Brotherhood and its militia goes back to the early ’80s. It was in Lebanon, too, that the Iran-Hezbollah relationship with Hamas was established in the early ’90s, shortly after Hamas was formed. It makes sense in this context for Iran, which has been attempting to deepen its footprint in the Judea and Samaria, to lean on these long-standing relationships.

3. A former Israeli intelligence official, Avi Melamed, has said Hamas is seeking expansion into Jordan through the Muslim Brotherhood to fulfil its ambition of a global Islamic caliphate.

   Melamed’s comment followed Jordan’s ban on the Muslim Brotherhood after the uncovering of a terror cell accused of planning brutal attacks, marking the second such plot in under a year.

4. @Peloni, I read numerous news reports none of them say anything to contradict the following:

   “The Kingdom of Jordan arrested sixteen members of what is believed to be a Muslim Brotherhood-linked terrorist cell that was involved in assembling rockets
   and threats to the country.

   “The plot aimed at harming national security, sowing chaos, and causing material destruction inside the kingdom,” a Jordanian government statement said on Tuesday. The terror plot is a serious development in the kingdom. Jordan is usually seen as stable, but in recent years, there have been Iranian-backed plots against Amman. Groups that back Hamas also want to destabilize the kingdom”.

   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/has-jordan-struck-a-blow-against-muslim-brotherhood-backed-terror/ar-AA1D307M?ocid=BingNewsSerp

   As it makes Mudar look less than credible, is he trying in hindsight to put a different spin on it perhaps? If you have a credible source I would be interested in hearing about it. Mudar is not what I mean by a credible source.

5. @Rafi

   It appears this is now being put down by the King’s men.

   You might take a look at Mudar’s most recent tweet
   https://www.israpundit.org/jordan-has-not-banned-the-muslim-brotherhood/

   There appears to be some discrepancy about what took place yesterday.

6. @Peloni I mistyped the question should have been phrased how does ONE create regime change with NO active counter military force or guerilla organization within a country. This I believe is applicable in Jordan and Iran.

   The Muslim Brotherhood was the only know active force working against the Hashemite Regime in Jordan. It appears this is now being put down by the King’s men. Mudar has been for years saying the King and Muslim Brotherhood are working together. This does not stand up to reality. In other words appears false and misleading.

7. @Rafi

   Issue in both cases how does one in practice create regime change with an active on the ground military or minimally guerilla organization working towards eliminating the regime.

   You should watch Mudar’s videos. He has addressed this issue with regards to Jordan.

8. Jordan Arrests Muslim-Brotherhood terrorists and Outlaws them.

   “The Kingdom of Jordan arrested sixteen members of what is believed to be a Muslim Brotherhood-linked terrorist cell that was involved in assembling rockets
   and threats to the country.

   “The plot aimed at harming national security, sowing chaos, and causing material destruction inside the kingdom,” a Jordanian government statement said on Tuesday. The terror plot is a serious development in the kingdom. Jordan is usually seen as stable, but in recent years, there have been Iranian-backed plots against Amman. Groups that back Hamas also want to destabilize the kingdom”.

   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/has-jordan-struck-a-blow-against-muslim-brotherhood-backed-terror/ar-AA1D307M?ocid=BingNewsSerp

9. It doesn’t say that MUDAR outlawed the MB, but that Jordan did.

   This means the little king and Cabi/net. Most likely under American and Israeli pressure.
   It took a hell of a long time………

10. Muslim Brotherhood is outlawed in Jordan now!!!

    Israel National News

    History in Jordan: Muslim Brotherhood to be outlawed
    Following the exposure of a terrorist network in Jordan, the country’s interior minister announced that the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood would be outlawed.

    Following the exposure of the terrorist network in Jordan, the country’s Interior Minister, Mazen Al-Faraya, announced that the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood would be outlawed in Jordan.

    “It has been proven that members of the Muslim Brotherhood are engaged in activities that undermine stability and undermine security. This is something that no country can accept,” he said.

    He added that “we are announcing the immediate enforcement of the provisions of the law against the Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered an illegal association. We have decided to confiscate the assets of the Muslim Brotherhood and ban all their activities.”

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/407278

11. I like the sentiment. It reminds of the Prince of Iran (Shah’s son) sentiments. In the case of the Shah he has a wide international following and much love by many Iranians.

    Issue in both cases how does one in practice create regime change with an active on the ground military or minimally guerilla organization working towards eliminating the regime.

    Israel has helped by weakening the Iranian Axis but the rest is up to the locals.

    Trump appears to be fooling himself by talking with the Iranians in lieu of doing what is needed which is bombing their nuke, military and regime sites. Trump has fallen into the Iranian stall game of buying time while they work on building nuclear warheads that fit their missiles.

12. I think it will be yet another way that together Bibi Netanyahu and Mudar Zahran can remake the Middle East to become a much more stable and peaceful place.

    These are all crucially important elements in rebalancing the Middle East once the neocon/CIA led Iranian empowerment is ended, as I sincerely hope it will be.

    Both Bibi and Mr. Zahran are very emotionally strong men, who have been through a great deal that has strengthened them over time. They are not typical Middle East “strong men” ie. bullies, but strong in their having self confidence and a strong and clear vision for their respective countries and people.