Posted on 09/26/2024 9:52:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Lest the world forget, a war is still raging in Gaza. Among the many obstacles to even a modest cease-fire, there is the Philadelphi corridor.
Less than nine miles long and roughly as wide as a football field, it occupies a crucial border location — including the Rafah crossing — between Egypt and Gaza. Egypt patrolled its side of the border after the 1979 peace agreement, then the Palestinian Authority took over control when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. But the PA was itself driven out by Hamas in 2007.
Since then, the Rafah crossing has been a central route for food, medicines and other goods for the people of Gaza — but also the main thoroughfare through which weapons, rockets and tunnel-building materials flowed. For nearly two decades, Hamas used this route to bring weapons into Gaza, hide them in a maze of tunnels and launch attacks against Israel.
The Netanyahu government wants to avoid a return to this vulnerability before any cease-fire. For a halt in fighting to be anything more than just a brief pause while Hamas re-arms and rebuilds its tunnels, more will be needed than just purposeful assurances.
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What interest is it of NATO about what goes on in Gaza.
What is happening in Gaza is something that *NEEDS* to happen in Gaza, and is long overdue.
What are “NATO troops”?
Seriously. What does that mean in reality?
In war, peace will return when one side no longer has the will or the means to continue fighting, and not one second before.
When we had “NATO” troops deployed in the former Yugoslavia, were they culled from some standing NATO army or assembled form various NATO countries and a European or Turk made the commander?
Let’s see. When the UN gets involved, the literally rape the people they are supposed to be “protecting,” and help the enemy. Why would NATO be any different? Besides, most of the “stuff” that NATO has, planes, etc, are from the US military. Perhaps the Taliban will donate some of the military hardware the Hussein/Biden Regime left there.
Couldn’t be more stupid or more dangerous except that there are a few Nazis who really really really want to provoke a nuclear WW3 to defeat the vestiges of free societies
Someone needs to take a geography class.
Since the Palestinian Terrorists are official members of NATO, I suppose an attack on terrorists kind of requires Western Europe and the US to deploy troops and go to war against Israel. Or something.
Very pithy.
But true.
We tried to build a humanitarian pier and Hamas shot mortars at it.
“Deploy NATO troops to the Gaza border”
I guess starting wars with Russia and (potentially) China isn’t enough for the Neocons - so now the Arab World, also?
Absolutely not! If uou want troops, use the UN peacekeepers.
I vote to send the entire Hill staff to the front lines. Let them fight for what they believe.
That’s what that 3 week cease fire was about..time for the west to bring in their armament to force their will on the region, which Israel wisely rejected but now they have a clock.
Why? To stop Isreal from getting at Hamas and preserving Gaza for the Hamas occupation???
IOW, NATO should bring Hamas (rather than Israel) into NATO. Be fruitful and multiply, just not in those words.
Well, it would certainly shift the prophetic calendar forward.
“the Rafah crossing has been a central route for food, medicines and other goods”
Yes, the other goods are munitions, explosives, weapons and other means of war for Hamas. In addition the tunnels from Gaza into Egypt were the main smuggling routes to bring “goods” into Gaza. This is the main reason why there was so much external pressure on Israel NOT to go into Rafah. IF you control Rafah, you control Gaza. All other means of entry were already under IDF supervision.
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