Gazans celebrate Muslim Brotherhood victory in Egypt with gunfire and candy

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"The Gaza Strip erupted in celebratory gunfire on Sunday with news that the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate won the presidency in neighboring Egypt, but one person was killed.

Tens of thousands of joyous Palestinians took to the streets across the territory after Egypt announced that Mohammed Morsi won last weekend’s runoff election, the first time an Islamist has won that nation’s highest office.

Gunmen fired automatic weapons in the air, while mosque loudspeakers rang with prayer. Some revelers handed out candy on street corners. Others waved Egyptian flags and blasted the country’s national anthem from car speakers.

A Gaza health official said that one person was killed and six others wounded by celebratory gunfire."

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[King_David]

1. I wonder if the UN will set up an inquiry ?

"A Gaza health official said that one person was killed and six others wounded by celebratory gunfire."

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2. Man killed by celebratory gunfire in Gaza

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A 25-year-old man was killed Sunday by shots fired to celebrate the victory of Muslim Brother Muhammad Mursi in Egypt's presidential elections.

Mohammad Qishta was killed and five others were injured by the celebratory gunfire, including two girls who sustained serious injuries, Gaza's Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma'an.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=498374

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3. Morsy says he wants to expand ties with Iran

President-elect Mohamed Morsy said in an interview with Iran's Fars news agency published on Monday that he wanted to expand ties with Tehran to create a strategic "balance" in the region.

Diplomatic relations between the two countries have been severed for more than 30 years, but both sides have signaled a shift in policy since former President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last year in a popular uprising.

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http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/morsy-says-he-wants-expand-ties-iran

[King_David]

4. Israeli tensions rise as Egyptian Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi questions peace pact

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/25/israeli-tensions-rise-as-egyptian-islamist-leader-mohammed-morsi-questions-peace-pact/

Egypt’s Islamist president-elect, Mohammed Morsi, wants to “reconsider” the peace deal with Israel and build ties with Iran to “create a strategic balance” in the Middle East, according to an interview published by Iran’s Fars news agency on Monday.

Fars had said that Morsi spoke to one of its reporters in Cairo on Sunday just before his election triumph was announced.

“We will reconsider the Camp David Accord” that, in 1979, forged a peace between Egypt and Israel that has held for more than three decades, Fars quoted Morsi as saying.

But after Morsi’s reported statements sparked anxiety in Israel and among its Western allies, an Egyptian presidential spokesman quashed the Fars report saying that Morsi never spoke to the Iranian news agency.

“Mr. Morsi did not give any interview to Fars and everything that this agency has published is without foundation,” a spokesman for the Egyptian presidency told the official news agency MENA.

[King_David]

5. The following is a sampling of his comments:

"Talks about a two-state solution are completely rejected by the Arab and Muslim peoples ... pressure to resume direct talks raises many questions regarding the feasibility of conducting such negotiations amid the continuing Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, the progressive steps towards Judaizing East Jerusalem, the seizing of parts of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the imprisonment of Sheikh Raed Salah and the destruction of houses in the Palestinian cities in the West Bank."
(IkwanWeb, August 2010)

"The two-state solution is nothing but a delusion concocted by the brutal usurper of the Palestinian lands."
(IkwanWeb, March 2010)

- "[Coptic Christians] need to know that conquest in coming, and Egypt will be Islamic, and thay they must pay the jizya or emigrate."
(El Bashayer, May 2012)

"We are expecting and hoping that what will happen in Egypt will really represent the people, and the Islamic framework can to a great extent control the government and the behavior of the State in the future."
(The Arabist, May 2011)


http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/85_Morsy.html