After brokering a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel in November 2012, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi emerged as one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East. But his legitimacy inside Egypt has taken a hit with his move to purge 3,000 secular judges, which would remove the opposition’s only means of challenging total domination of the government by the Muslim Brotherhood. The result is likely to be a rising swell of violent protest over the coming months, violence that could eventually see Morsi forced from office.

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