Brotherhood doves are the coming phase hawks

A political observer may notice no change in the approach of the Muslim Brotherhood after its leader Dr Hamam Said  renewed terms for a further four years, but he will feel the difference when Sheikh Zaki Bani Irsheid becomes the spokesperson of the Brotherhood, as Bani Irsheid has proved that he is a different kettle of fish from the rest of the Brotherhood clan. The election results of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan were closely monitored by the press and politicians on a day-to-day basis until the results were announced. The group known as the  current 'doves' were defeated and refrained from participating with other bodies, deciding instead to squat with  the new leadership in order to push it towards further extremism, or even to clash with the Brotherhood hawks who appeared most prominently on the scene. But he who is familiar with the composition of the Brotherhood group, knows that these divisions, between the conservative hawks and the liberal doves are not set in stone and can fluctuate according to the whims of the political stage at any given time, as has happened more than once when the hawks became the doves and the doves became the hawks; acting as  hawks inside the Brotherhood but behaving like doves towards the state and its positions. Brotherhood positions will not change much in the coming days, except towards the media where via  their public relations channels they will claim they are being targeted and that the state practices towards them are pushing them to adopt more hardline positions and embarrass them within their groups, especially their youth groups. The Brotherhood will also be aware that they are not the friends of this government, unlike  the previous one, so they will return bit by bit to the incubator of the opposition parties' Higher Coordination Committee. They  will also return to the fold of the movement and become closer to its rhetoric, even if they do not adopt its slogans. There are many questions within the Brotherhood and the answers to them  are contradictory, as is the case inside the Hamas movement, and it seems that the questions are also present on the table of the international organisation of the Brotherhood which the Muslim Brotherhood in our country follows as closely as Hamas does. It is the first time that the election of a new political bureau in Hamas has witnessed conflict between candidates. In the past, the political bureau elections  passed smoothly, and without leakage, until the process was finalised and the results announced. The rise of Islamic movements in some countries due to the revolutions,  put the Muslim Brotherhood, its new leadership which had belonged to the Hamas movement in the past, and the movement itself,  in a state of waiting until the Arab situation crystalised, particularly  in Syria.