Posted on 10/15/2023 8:06:35 AM PDT by bitt
I was reviewing a Wall Street Journal article about the Sinai border between Egypt and Gaza and various Western opinion about Egypt’s unwillingness to allow Palestinian refugees to cross the heavily controlled border.
For those who do not know the deep background, the Western media context looks troublesome {GO DEEP}. However, I rise in defense of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, because we have tracked and discussed the issues for a long time. Egypt is in a very difficult position right now, and with Obama/Biden in the White House – the challenge is made even worse. First the WSJ framing of the issue:
"TEL AVIV— A diplomatic effort to evacuate U.S. citizens from Gaza faltered after Egyptian officials said they would only allow foreigners to cross the border if aid could pass in the opposite direction.
Egypt’s refusal on Saturday, confirmed by three officials and in an announcement on state television, thwarted the latest U.S. push to evacuate any of the 500 or more Americans in Gaza wishing to leave through the enclave’s southern border with Egypt.
Israel—which has sealed off Gaza’s northern border with a ground invasion by Israeli forces believed imminent—said Saturday that it would give a few hours of safe passage for people in northern Gaza to move southward. A doctor in Gaza said corpses were piling up in the main hospital’s morgue and under rubble from Israeli airstrikes launched in response to Hamas militants’ lightning strike into Israel last Saturday.
[…] Egypt is apprehensive about the prospect of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees being displaced into Egypt, or of getting drawn deeper into the conflict. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, an ardent enemy of Hamas, has also warned that a mass displacement from the enclave could mean an end to the aspirations of a Palestinian state.
Egypt told the U.S. that it has too many evacuation requests to accommodate U.S. nationals and that it can’t grant passage to one country over others, according to two Egyptian officials, who also cited security concerns related to a lack of screening of individuals. On the Palestinian side, damage from an Israeli missile has hindered access to the Rafah crossing.
Yet, Sisi earlier this week ordered tents to be pitched in the Egyptian towns of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, in preparation for potentially having to accept refugees from Gaza. He also ordered the creation of a 8.5-mile wide, 500-meter deep buffer zone in Rafah."...more
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While I have a certain sympathy for Americans trapped in war zones, it’s on a sliding scale…
What a novel idea.
In 1948 Palestine was given a state. All they had to do was claim it and govern it. Instead they went to war with Israel
The sand fleas are idiots. Kill them all
Excluding the hostages, just who are the other 500 ‘Americans’ in Gaza? As in how long have they been Americans and why are they in Gaza?
I ask because no one I know would be caught dead in Gaza and it makes me wonder just how much effort Israel and the US should put in trying to get them out, and how many lives of Israeli/US soldiers are worth losing over them?
It's the gutter religion that makes them idiots. They are living in the 21st century and have 100% belief in political/religious system created by a warlord that wanted total power 1400 years ago.
Just read the koran and remember, when it says "Kill the Christian and the Jew" they take it literally.
You cannot trust these vermin.
If these “Americans” who want out are who I think they are, Obama generated Palestinian refugees who acquired US citizenship , who are in the transport and business of
supplying strategic materials to Hamas , such as c9ncrete , steel, rebar, digging and tunneling machines, blck market US arms from Ukraine, and Afghanistan, THEN WHO WANTS THEM OUT OF GAZA? To come back to America and wreak propaganda against Israel?
Let the stay and take their chances, or send in the US MAriiiines to get them out?
Blinken is an idiot.
People do not understand what wiol hapen if there is a three front war against ISrael. INstead of facing extinction as a nation the Israelis will use their nuclear weaponry.
Thats why WE NEED TO TELL ISRAEL TO GET ON WITH THEIR WORK QUICKLY, before other nations and Iran can organize their version of Armegeddon.
Biden and Blinken cannot handle this sitiation, they are too uncommitted t9 the Israeli cause, too many conditions attached to US aid for Israel.
Enough hand wringing and allowing USA, Egypt and Qatar to control the pace of this war.
Precisely
The other mideast countries do not like the Palestinians. Jordan violently removed them. They use the Palestinians as a weapon against Israel.
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