The Ikhwan is making a comeback in Jordan and Palestine, writes the Economist. Experience déjà vu when you read about that the headquarters of Jordan’s Islamists “is a hive of strategists and statisticians calculating campaigns and polls. It is fielding candidates in 15 of Jordan’s 23 electoral districts. Its nearest rivals struggle to muster a handful. … Five Christians are on the [Jordanian Islamists’] list and Hamas, for the most part, has sidestepped the usual bombast about ‘resistance’ and cast itself as a technocratic alternative to Mr Abbas’s corrupt and sclerotic faction, Fatah. They have also wooed Christian candidates.”