Nobody wants the Palestinians. The undesirables of the ME.
Nobody in that region wants importation of the Palestinians.
Apparently they are so fanatical, they even give terrorists a bad name!
How about we stop sending each their couple billion dollar a year allowances?
We need more refugees here so that they can REALLY do an insurrection! Today was chump change!
When even muslims don’t want other muslims, you KNOW there’s a problem with the Palestinians.
Some of the blase reactions I’m seeing to the Arab countries rejecting this proposal are perplexing. Why are other countries obligated to take people being ejected from what has been their home (and, in the case of a majority of Palestinian children, has been under blockade for their entire lives)?
“Palestinians are nothing but trouble, no wonder Egypt and Jordan won’t take them.”
Or, alternatively:
- Egypt won’t take them because they would be destitute (since, even though the Palestinians aren’t what anyone would call “well off”, what little they own is in Gaza). 2 million people wallowing in a massive refugee camp in the Sinai would be a goldmine for the Muslim Brotherhood (especially when Egypt has a neighbor — Sudan — just to its south undergoing a civil war).
- Jordan won’t take them because they already have tensions boiling over from refugees displaced because of the Syrian Civil War, as well as Iranian-backed militias agitating Jordan’s security via smuggling and drug running.
For either nation, being told to they have to accept 2 million Palestinians — refugees who will be feeling very bitter about being kicked out of their homes — would be seen as an existential threat to their national security...and rightly so.
Both Egypt and Jordan have couched their refusal to accept Palestinian refugees in humanitarian terms; however, the brutal calculus is that the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza will inflame the various tensions that already exist, running the risk of escalating the conflict into a true regional war throughout the Middle East.
Antarctica had plenty of room.
Previously, didn’t both countries end up having to expel them because they caused trouble?
No one wants their cities worm-holed with miles of underground tunnels. Those Gazans don’t know when to stop. Building will topple with their foundations compromised. I know that’s being sarcastic but these countries know these Gazans know how to make trouble. Their background check has some real bad history.
If middle eastern countries won’t take these people...
WHY should countries 1000+ miles away?
I understand exactly why the Jordanians don’t want any Palestinians. They let a bunch in back in the 50s and they responded by trying to kill and overthrow the king. So the Jordanians expelled them all and don’t want any.
The Palestinians went to Lebanon and promptly destabilized the place plunging it into years of civil war.
The Egyptians were watching and said “hell no” to Palestinians coming into their country.
Nobody wants these vermin. They are a plague upon their hosts no matter where they are.
Send them to Iran.
Zhao and his handlers will bring them here. That’s why they’re sending US military assets for “humanitarian aid”.
Trump would have made both Abdullah/Jordan and Egypt an offer they couldn’t refuse.
Even now, in most of the Middle East, Arab refugees from Palestine have very very very rarely obtained citizenship in the Middle East nation their family took refuge, no matter that that began as far back as 1948 and their family(ies) have been in that Middle East state ever since.
Why?
Here is a good example of the reasoning of the Arab states, this from Egypt:
Following this amendment, the League of Arab States issued a recommendation to ban member states from granting their nationality to the Palestinians in order to preserve the Palestinian identity and to keep the issue alive in the minds of the citizens of Palestine, because if every state grants citizenship to the Palestinians, there will be no one to defend their issue. This recommendation was based on a sovereign decision issued by the Egyptian government. Accordingly, from 2004 until 2011, the Egyptian authorities did not accept any applications from any Palestinian refugees.
The Arab states use the Palestinians as geopolitical pawns, and want to keep them that way. If they integrated Palestinian Arabs into their own counties then the “Palestinian” issue would go away and leave them with nothing with which to hit Israel over the head.
Most of the world fleeing to Egypt?
That's either a case of "one from each" or total BS.
“The U.N. estimates that there are already north of one million people who have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.”
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How subtle and very disingenuous.
Just 10 days ago, the followers of Hamas perpetrated a horrendous raid on Israel, brutally killing, maiming and kidnapping hundreds of Israeli’s.
Now, it is a ‘war’. No need to recount the atrocities inflicted on the Israelis. It is not necessary to explain the justification for retaliation.
No. Now it is a ‘war’ that apparently no one started.