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The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has sponsored some 80 anti-government demonstrations in Cairo and the rest of Egypt since Jan. 23, when tens of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip began pouring across the border into Egypt in search of food and basic supplies. Using the Gaza border crisis as fodder for its opposition campaign, the banned Islamist group has seized upon the opportunity to bolster its popular support and send a careful reminder to the Egyptian regime that it remains the largest and best-organized opposition movement in the country.
The prospect of the Muslim Brotherhood campaigning in solidarity with Palestinians across the border is exactly the type of situation Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak wants to prevent at all costs. Links still exist between the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, which was created as an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1987, and the threat of an Egyptian Islamist uprising down the road is all too real in the eyes of the Mubarak regime.
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