Posted on 06/30/2006 2:25:36 AM PDT by Dallas59
GAZA CITY [MENL] -- Egypt has deployed more than 2,500 soldiers along the Sinai-Gaza border.
Palestinian sources said the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered the reinforced border presence to block the entry of Palestinians into Egypt. The sources said the deployment was also in response to Israeli and U.S. requests to prevent the smuggling of an abducted Israeli soldier into the Sinai Peninsula.
"The Egyptians believe that thousands of Palestinians will try to cross the border," a Palestinian source said.
On Wednesday, thousands of Palestinians fled the southern Gaza Strip ahead of an Israeli military advance. The sources said most of the Palestinians were moving north toward the central Gaza Strip and east toward the coast.
Palestinians? Mexicans of the Middle East?
Egypt isn't hindered by our sense of moral superiority and compassion...
So they'd probably roll in some tanks and run over some protesters. And somewhere, somehow - someone will say, "It's Bush's fault!"
What? Protect their border. Next thing ya know they'll be slopping their dripper. Don't look Ethyl!!!
It happened in the 1950s, though not exactly in the way you suggested. Yasser Arafat wasn't really a Palestinian; he was born in Cairo, under the name of Muhammad Abd ar-Ra'uf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husayni. His mother was apparently related to the Mufti of Jerusalem, but his father's family can be traced in Egypt as far back as the second half of the 18th century. When Arafat grew up, he served in the Egyptian military during the 1948 war, studied engineering at Cairo Unibersity, joined the Moslem Brotherhood, and left Egypt when Nasser suppressed that organization, after it tried to assassinate him in 1954. At that point, he stopped being an activist for Egyptian causes, and decided to support the Palestinian Arab cause instead, by forming al-Fatah. You can probably figure out the rest of the story from there.
The only people that arabs hate more than the palis are Jews.
The rest of the arab countries use them as cannon fodder for their war against Jews, keeping them in squalor, and formenting hatred to use them in an ever-lasting battle against the Jews.
If the arab countries, who are among the richest in the world, actually cared about the palestinian people, they would have absorbed them into their own societies decades ago, and allowed them to become citizens. But because of the decades of hatred and violence that's been forced on the palis, the other arab countries not only hate, but fear them, and don't want them in their countries. Especially after seeing what they did in Jordan and Lebanon. I remember seeing pictures of the beautiful city that was once Beirut.
Mark
Bingo, great summary.
True, and Arab govts also use the Palis to redirect the focus of their populations away from their own corruption.
Palestinians seem the most part the Middle East equivalent to the illegal anchor babies here in the US. Nobody wants them but they just won't leave.
The one thing that continues to confound me is why Europe, and left-wing intellectuals in general, seem to have such an unusual attachment to "the Palestinians".
Palestinian security personnel guard a hole in the border wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt June 29, 2006. Masked Palestinian gunmen blew a 13 foot wide hole on Thursday in the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after Israel launched a military campaign to free a kidnapped soldier, witnesses said. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)
The cynic in me would contend that they support the palestinians because they are continuing the old European policy to destroy Jews, which Europe can no longer openly endorse. European anti-semitism has a long and violent history across the continent.
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