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.
Israel’s military said Gazans could safely travel along two major routes south for six hours before 4 p.m. local time, as its forces prepare for an expected ground invasion aimed at routing Hamas. (read more)
Western media never discuss the extreme lengths al-Sisi had to go through in 2014 through 2017 to clear out the radical Islamists from Egypt. After Sisi kicked out the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS, enablers), he became the mortal enemy of tribal terrorism. The various terrorist elements put a fatwah on the head of Sisi and commanded all members of the Islamic Jihad to target Egypt.
It was President al-Sisi who destroyed all the Hamas tunnels from the Sinai into Gaza, and there were hundreds of them. It took years and was painfully difficult for the Egyptian military to remove the extremist elements, culminating in a heavily fortified border between Gaza and Egypt. For Sisi now to look at the potential of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian sympathizers to Hamas setting up camp in his country, he must have very serious concerns.
The Sinai region is a tenuous challenge already for Sisi, and that was highlighted by the horrific terrorist attack that took place in 2017 in retaliation against Egypt for the border security measures.
Against the backdrop of the first border opening between Egypt’s northern Sinai and Gaza, and against the ongoing efforts by the al-Sisi led coalition to move toward peace between Arabs and Israelis, the extremists strike back in 2017 with a horrific terrorist attack against the Al Rawdah mosque in Bir al-Abed, west of El Arish, the main city in North Sinai. 235 people were killed and hundreds more wounded {link}
It took President al-Sisi years to secure Egypt from the extremist elements and protect the Egyptian people. The fact that Sisi is a singular and respected figure, who came from the Egyptian army to stop the Islamic jihad and the implementation of Sharia Law represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, has always been a problem. With Sisi there is peace and strength; but like Donald Trump President Sisi is one man.
By an overwhelming majority, the nation of Egypt wants Sisi to remain as President, because quite frankly he is irreplaceable. The delicate balance of peace in Egypt rests on his shoulders. Think about it. On his Western border he has Libya in a state of crisis with extreme jihadist elements. On his Eastern border he has Hamas, and now everyone expects Sisi to import a faction of an entire population quite comfortable with Islamic extremism. This is not a good position to be in.
Egypt doesn’t want the refugees, not because Egypt is heartless to their plight, but factually because inside that population of refugees is a radical element that could reignite the Sinai region all over again…. And, if the worst does happen, no one will be there to help President al-Sisi except an already pressured Egyptian military.
Jordan is full of refugees already, and King Abdullah manages his own tinderbox. Syria is a hot mess of factional/tribal extremism, and if Egypt is not careful the Syrian model, or even the Libyan situation could easily be the fate for Egypt.
Hamas hates al-Sisi for disrupting their ability to smuggle weapons across the border. Topping this off, the Obama/Biden administration undermines Egypt at every opportunity. It has always been visible just below the surface that the U.S. supports the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar; the Obama/Biden alignment against Egypt is just one part of this dynamic.
From the State Dept/CIA perspective, they would enjoy the Palestinian/Hamas sentiment triggering renewed jihadist chaos in Egypt. Again, President Sisi is in a tough place.
I’m not sure how this is going to end, but I find myself very sympathetic to the dynamic that President Sisi is facing. What right do Western leaders have to demand Egypt open their borders to known terrorists?
When I saw the reports that Egypt warned Israel that something was up days/week before the attack happened…
I give it serious thought…
It would have been to Egypts benefit to keep things under control. Just to avoid the situation that is happening now.
The claim by Egypt of the warning has been swept under the rug…or discredited.
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I believe that Egypt denies sending a warning.
Correct. The US government & media made that claim.
Eqypt denied it.
Sundance just did a post on this 1-2 days ago.
No, it’s confirmed that they did warn Bibi more than once….
Confirmed by whom? Our state department/CIA? The western media? If you trust those sources…. There’s not a lot to be said. Both principals, Israel and Egypt, have denied the nonsense story.
Like I stated…I give it thought……
Not going to say yeah or nay.
Just going to file it my….
Remember this brain file😉
https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/
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Just one of the sources I have read/heard. It is one on those articles that have to be read in full.
Fog of War and probably a LOT of CYA going on.
This comment ^^^ confirms that you are a troll.
Correct. That has been denied, by Egypt, several times over, yet people are repeating still repeating this.
An Egyptian “warning” is a red herring, it doesn’t matter to argue that point, imo. What About MOSSAD ??? A Premier INTEL Agency left clueless ??? Please that dog don’t hunt.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cjhopkins/p/israels-911?
False Flagged Again into Moar War. not that the attacks weren’t REAL and people died.
4 War Strategy will take the USSA Down and with the Complicity of Domestic USSA Traitors in my opinion. I Spit
genearly.substack.com
Egypt doesn’t want the Palestinians coming into their country.
I look at motive of why Egypt would be monitoring the situation on their border..
That is what our Government should be doing on our border.
difference is our Government wants us invaded….
Someone(s) either intentionally or unintentionally dropped the ball regarding Israel.
Big time.
The reports have always been that MOSSAD was the premier intel agency. For decades they had that reputation.
After the Hamas attack….appears that may not be the case now.
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From what I’ve read, Hamas had people inside Israel. They sabotaged or disabled some of the warning and defense systems. An attack from within is very hard to counter quickly?
How can anyone objectively access the quality of any “intelligence agency”?
All of their work is shrouded in secrecy, “classified” and with all of the double and triple agents, its not really possible to access whether they are benefiting their country or not,…”premier” or corrupt, theres no objective material to use, to make such an evaluation.
AmericanThinker, another great article by JB Shurk today; “American Patriots have grown war wise”.
Viet Nam, Iraq, Afganistan, Iraq AGAIN,…
WE just aren’t “falling for it” any more.
“,…We won’t be fooled, agaaaaaiiiiin!”
How dare we criticize someone else for protecting their border when we don’t even protect ours? An utter disgrace our country has become, especially under the Obiden leadership.
The US State Department is an atrocious entity that must-needs be cleaned out. These careerist radicals hire their people-in-kind and entrench the ideology.
In even the simplest actions, they reveal their squalorous attitudes – paint a picture of George Floyd on a public wall in Afghanistan?? What on earth?
Much thanks to Sundance for pointing out the fundemental issue and reminding us.
Yes. Along with the FBI CIA, NSA, TSA, etc etc then close all the worthless leftist boondoggles like the Department of mis-Education and cut all
federal government agencies in half. Maybe then we could breath freedoms air again.
That’s a good start. The Fed-blob needs to be put on a strick diet.
One major tool in returning our Republic to as intended, is extreme Federalism.
It requires WE, the People to first take control of local to State Governments, expunging the careerists, and then supporting State Governments that assert, on behalf of the States citisens, State rights and authorities.
Remind the FBI and other Federal law enforcement agencies they have no jurisdiction, except on Federal properties.
But, it means State Governments prepared to stand up to the Feds, and force the Fed to blink.
And, it means the People either taking responsibility for their own lives, and or having/encouraging State Governments to take responsibility/authority from the Fed. government.
In short, it requires the WILL on the part of the people, in unity to demand it.
Iran could take them in since they are so keen to support terror.
You know that how? Question everything, your life depends on it.
Yes, we KNOW this.
Iran is PERSIAN, as well as SHIITE.
Palestinians are ARAB, as well as Sunni.
Kinda like saying Aluits, aka “eskimos” should “take in” Apaches.
Not even close.
Fabulous post
Incredibly informative
This info needs to spread far and wide
This sounds like stage 4 cancer.
After treating one area to have it removed, it just spreads to other parts of the body.
Thank you Sundance. I have gotten to the point where I can’t even talk to some people about it, they have been so brainwashed.
They will gladly talk down to me, and tell me the situation is so nuanced that expressions of any sympathy for the dead are ignoring the plight of the Palestinians.
That last sentence- “What right do Western leaders have to demand Egypt open their borders to known terrorists?”
I think that’s it. I think that’s what this has all been about. I think that’s why the “surprise” attack occurred, and why it was allowed to happen.
Yes, it was allowed, make no mistake about it.
We’ve all been watching the demand for open borders spread all over the world. They had to go about this one in a very roundabout way.
Deception and evil are “nuanced”, truth and goodness are straightforward. Leave it to the useful idiots and progressives to complicate it.
“What right do Western leaders have to demand Egypt open their borders to known terrorists?”
Absolutely none, zero, zilch, nada.
Al-sisi will be remembered as a hero to his people, much like President Trump will be to his.
These rare people are willing to stand in the gap in defiance of people like Obama.
In the battle between civilization and savagery, they are doing God’s work.
Amen!
“What right do Western leaders have to demand Egypt open their borders to known terrorists?”
In this one case White House occupant Joe Biden is leading by example. He has opened our borders to any and all criminals and terrorists.
Funny how other countries haven’t followed his example yet.
Ahem…France, UK, Italy, Sweden?
If Israel displaces the Gazans into Egypt, it’s a defacto ethnic cleansing.
“Ethnic cleansing” is generally understood to be genocide.
Displacement (diaspora) is not genocide.
That connotation could be considered an influence effort or propaganda.
Israel doesn’t get to decide if the Palestinians can come into Egypt as refugees. Egypt decides that and nobody else.
Currently, al Siri is not permitting refugees in and has indicated he doesn’t want them due to the massive efforts he undertook to remove Hamas and radical elements from 2017-20. And doesn’t want to open that can of worms again.
This was thoroughly explained by Sundance on a post within the last 48 hours.
If you don’t read the post! you can pop off. It’s easy ,don’t read the post. And you can say anything ,even if its wrong.
“al Siri” assume you meant “al SISI” unless you are saying Egypts leader is an AI “Bot” lol.
Sometimes, typos are so funny!
None,they have no right.
They are trying to throw the match on gasoline.
Actually, Iran has behaved very responsibly in this crisis, and has warned Israel to avoid a potentially catastrophic invasion of Gaza…If Israel ever uses nukes, assuming that it has nukes which have been properly maintained, it will be signing its death warrant, so Bibi can’t even think about that….And no, Israel does not have thermonuclear weapons, so it’s not going to turn any country to glass…
” And no, Israel does not have thermonuclear weapons”.
Huh? Im not sure why you state this. Either you are a troll, or you have no clue what you are talking about. They have had nukes since I was a young man.
“Actually, Iran has behaved very responsibly in this crisis”
Say what? They have armed both Hamas and Hezbollah, with their own arms and financial support, also, since I was a young man.
I’m not sure what rick you just crawled out from under, but your words are in the upper echelons of ” pretending not to know things. “. Or just straight up lies. They are both!
IIRC, I read that, at least at one time Israel kept their nukes in a dissasembled state, with the “core” seperate, and specially trained crews that could assemble them in seconds, IF neccesary.
This so that they could deny having Nukes, cause its not a nuclear bomb, until its assembled.
Your argument on whether they do or don’t possess nukes reminded me…
Oh, so Iran has “warned” Israel – have they also warned Gaza or is this a one-way warning?
Iran and responsible used in the same sentence. There is a first.
Think again about your Israeli H Bomb claim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#Nuclear_testing
Iran is not entering the battlefield unless their country is attacked by Israel. They made this statement, and it is reported in a current story at The Gateway Pundit. They are choosing to defend and protect their own citizens and land.
I wish our govt would protect We the People from the millions of unknown invaders that have streamed across what used to be borders around our nation.
Yeah. I read that article.
There’s one little thing in it that you and everyone commenting on it missed.
“Iran reportedly announced that it will not assist Hamas or engage in military action against Israel unless Israel attacks Iran, its interests, or its citizens.”
Just what does Iran consider it’s “interests”and do they include “interests” in other countries, perhaps in Gaza or Syria or Lebanon?
It seems to me that Sisi is pursuing “Egypt First” policies. Why would I disparage that? In my view, if Israel pursues “Israel First” policies, as it should, and Egypt pursues “Egypt First” policies, as it should, then I think we can agree that both countries are acting within the scope of their rights to protect their citizens from the radical nutjobs. I don’t see this as a problem. The fact that there is a population of people who have permitted terrorists to operate openly, supporting and sheltering those operations, seems to me a problem the consequences of which ought to be borne by those people.
Well said. 👊
Thank you. Your article is well-written and speaks to the elephant in the room none in the LSM wish to see or describe. I wonder why…
Sorry, it’s much deeper than that. Otherwise you could also simply claim the Palestinians are pursing a Gaza First policy. It matters profoundly what VALUES are pursued and preserved by “My Country First” policies. If those policies are EVIL … then it’s a non-starter
Kenji,
No, really it’s not. We can pretend that the “Palestineans” are pursuing a “Gaza First” policy, but that’s not what they’re pursuing. They’re pursuing something altogether hatefully aggressive and destructive. I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in false equivalences. I’m not interested in pretending that an aggressor punching me in the mouth is the same as me punching him back. I’m not going to play that game. You’re free to have your opinion, and I’m free to reject it out of hand as unparsimonious with the facts. There is no scenario by which slaughtering the babies, children, and other defenseless persons as a primary objective of one’s offensive operations is morally equivalent to carrying out counter-offensive operations that may inadvertently result in the unintended deaths of such persons. None. Pretend away. I’m not buying it. Have a great day.
Obama is the President, not the grifter “vacationing” in Delaware.
Western leaders have absolutely no right to demand anything from another sovereign country.
None.
By demanding such foolishness western “leaders,” those who have no clue what it means to actually be a leader who protects his borders and citizens, are demanding a real leader to offer his country and citizens on the pyre of Islamic brutality.
It is beyond despicable that the U.S. is making it a priority to get U.S. citizens out of Gaza, but when Israel was being attacked our “leaders” didn’t say a peep about getting U.S. citizens out.
Other countries sent planes to rescue their citizens, but Americans? You’re on your own.
And I’m sure when the U.S. “rescues” those “Americans” in Gaza, no extremists will be included in the group.
It will be just like Afghanistan.
It appears that the real terrorists enabling and causing destruction plus displacing alliances and legally elected governments are the State Department, CIA and illegitimate rogue third term Obama administration. It’s time to root out theses evil bastards, administer due punishment for the crimes they have committed and put an end to their radical destabilization agenda.
Hence, Muley Buley’s oft repeated comment, variations on “My enemy is NOT in Moscow, Tehren etc……
Its in D.C. to which, broadly speaking I concur.
Do we need a refresher course on the difference between sunni and shia sects of islam? One or the other wants to kill you now and the other wants to subdue you, then kill you later?
Let’s understand that they generally will not assimilate but will go along until they achieve becoming 10% of the overall population. Then they really activate for bringing Islamic causes of control, shariah law, violence and all, just as we are seeing in Europe.Slowly, then all at once, as Sundance has said. That sentence can be applied to any terrorist group allowed to propagate demographically.
If you don’t like the sound of bringing hamas leftovers and supporters here to propagate in our country—what are we doing about it?
I’m sorry but I have to ask this question. What are Americans doing in Gaza? If one is dumb enough to live in a place like that I am reminded of a familiar saying “mess with the bull, you get the horn.” If someone chooses to live in Gaza for some insane reason, they surely must have calculated the cost. You know, as in two plus two equals four. Egyptian president should tell them, and the horse they rode in on, to go pound sand. Why should he put his country at risk because these people made a totally dumb decision?
Agreed.
Probably some real dumb, virtue signaling American college students.
They love to visit these hellholes in solidarity with the “oppressed.”
It gives them major street cred back on campus.
The Rachel Corrie Construction Battalion!
“Working” for “NGO’s” aka CIA/State Dept front groups?
They have upscale shopping malls and 600 Hamas millionaire members own chi-chi beach front villas on the Med. I hope we could deport anti-Jewish models Gigi Hadid and her sister and bully real-estate developer Mohammad. Apparently the ladies are good friends with Taylor Swift who lent her Rhode Island beach “cottage” to Gigi to woo lib actor Bradley Cooper.
Wonder how many of them are “dual citizens”?
They’ll probably end up getting air lifted to Mexico.
I wouldn’t want those people either.
Interesting, didn’t know al-sisi was a common sense man of some integrity. The CIA is probably working hard to get rid of him. They need Hillary and Obama back to destroy Egypt.
Remember the MB ultra-conservative faction in Egypt wanted to blow up the pyramids or put wax on top of them as they represented pre-Mohammad paganism?? That would be a great loss for the World if that happened.
OK! You got me with the “wax” claim? Why would you put wax on The Pyramids”? Wax and a wick as in giant candle? Wax them to enable skiing?
Maybe ask the MB who were threatening it.
Based on extensive familiarity from “up close” with the situation, Sundance is absolutely factual and correct.
The “Americans” in Gaza are likely Arab refugee asylum seekers who became naturalized citizens of the United States, or their children. These aren’t tourists from the midwest on vacation in the lovely resorts. They’re probably there to support Hamas.
Sounds something like the “American citizens” in Afghanistan.
Correct!
Too bad Rashida Talib(an) isn’t inside Gaza right now…but she probably knew about this before hand.
Hello, I am your Israeli friend. This is a good article! I am always surprised of the analytical ability of Sundance.
I do have my two words to add from my knowledge.
The Arab world knows very well the violent nature of Palestinians (of course not all of them) and is not willing to try to assimilate them. Some specifics: Around 1970 Jordan is fed up with Palestinian (PLO) violence and and kills some 3400 in what is called The Black September. They kick them out too. Lebanon which took in Palestinian forces of PLO and later Hezbollah has brought a disaster upon itself. And there are more examples.
So Arab countries sympathize with them for many reasons but actually taking them in and giving them equal rights and assimilation you don’t see. The whole subject of Palestinian refugees could have been solved generations ago with the Arab wealth but it’s convenient to use the refugees as a hot subject against Israel. Never in history refugees would get a refugee status from generation to generation. The UN is also responsible for it.
Otherwise Sisi of Egypt kicked the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and he knows well that Hamas is Ideologically a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. They carry green scarfs and head bands which is an Islamic color not Palestinian. Their charter is talking about Islamic conquest. Not Palestinian. Very similar to ISIS.
The UN is also responsible for it.
And every country who took part in it, which, of course, included the U.S.
Thank you for your first hand contribution. “Hot subject against Israel.” Nice way of saying, “we hate Israel more than we love our Muslim brothers.”
I wonder what Russia’s response to the use of nukes on a country sharing it’s border would be. As far as Iran backing Hamas, as Sundance has described it’s main backer is Qatar followed by Turkey. I don’t hear anyone suggesting we bomb Turkey.
I mean its’ not it’s. Getting old.
Thank you, for your correction. I am soooo tired at the constant misuse of the apostrophe on this site as well as others. The worst is Rino’s vs Rinos. Cheers.
Autocorrect doesn’t help.
Youre right, I’d suggest NATO has lost its usefulness, but Turkey has certainly lost its usefulness to NATO.
Turkey is a mixed blessing, but it is certainly putting a crimp in Russian naval asset transfer at the moment.
Excellent analysis and point of view.
And I am ALL:
Hamas delenda est
The democrats are working to bring in a million Palestinians refugees wearing backpacks !
Almost 20 years ago, I sat at dinner with one of our distributors. Israel had built the wall making it impossible for one of his long-term and loyal employees to come to work. The former-employee asked the owner of the business to help he and his family financially as there was no where else to turn for aid and they were starving.
I still remember his face as he told the story. He knew that the man’s children were being taught in school to hate all Jews. He knew if he gave money to his former employee to save his families lives that the former employee’s son would end up attacking and killing Israelis in the future. Likely even his own family.
He still gave the former employee money because he felt it was the “humanly” right thing to do. Neither Hamas nor the government of Israel are perfect by any stretch of the imagination, yet there are always good people of every faith and ideology in the world that deserve compassion.
I’m not happy that Israel is going to clean out Northern Gaza. I’m not happy that Hamas AGAIN attacked Israel last week. Unfortunately, foreign entities keep giving Hamas arms and condone their hatred. Maybe, the world’s anger at these latest events is being placed in the wrong place?
To me, the PLO or HAMAS are EXACTLY like the grifters that have arisen, ostensibly working to represent American blacks.
The Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton types profit off of ramping up the claims of grievance, and the LAST thing they want, is to achieve any resolution, as then they would be out of a job.
PLO and HAMAS are both doing exactly the same, profiting both monetarily and with influence, on maintaining the status quo.
Hence, PDJT STOPPING all funding to them, as one part if his middle east plan, which showed in a mere 4 years, more peace than 40+ years of his predescessors.
IT is very interesting that these Arab countries cry about how Israel is treating
Gaza yet not one of them will take them in..
Where is the Arab League in all this? You never really hear of them what
exactly do they do. I had read the the leader of Hamas had called for
a meeting of the Arab League but never heard if they did or what happened?
No one wants the terrorists, but we let them walk across the border? Egypt will be offered lots of money and UN blue hats to “secure” the refuge camp, like they did in Algeria.
Put people down at the border handing out the 4×6 cards of the Bush’s Clinton’s Obama’s Biden’s compounds addresses, with a little message. These are the people who cause you the misery you have had to live through you’re whole life back in you’re home county.
Add to this the fact that the infidels just demanded a day of global jihad, and no thanks, we will leave our border closed says Egypt.
Thanks for explaining Egypt’s predicament so well, SD.
People forget all that Egyptians have gone thru the past couple decades, and that they have valid reasons for shutting – or being VERY guarded about- their borders to Palestinians.
>>>> And the Western Media will not remind Westerners about these reasons.
The Egyptians are not heartless, they’re just SMART and protecting themselves from what they KNOW is a true threat.
God Bless them!
desertson: I agree about American universities being breeding grounds for a lot of our current madness. I see this with my own eyes and ears, in person, right nearby.
desertson: You describe what I see every day.
Just a reminder folks- Israel is NOT the 51st State and Americas interests are not the same as Israel’s.
MAGA is about putting our own country 1st, not Ukraine or Israel or Mexico or NATO or the U.N.
The serious problems we face in this country, which we are very close to losing, require our undivided attention. Don’t be distracted by these endless foreign wars & diplomatic intrigues. Stay the course and stay focused on domestic affairs.
Gates of Vienna has a series of comments from a kibbutz resident in the middle of the Hamas attack. He seems to say that the majority of potential “refugees” from Gaza are mostly Egyptian illegal migrants. Adds a wrinkle to al-Sisi’s problem set. Perhaps the camps he is setting up are to sort the wheat from the chaff. Anybody have recent insight as to who actually lives in Gaza?
Good assessment.
Thank you for that analysis, Sundance. I did not know much about Egypt. Now I understand its unwillingness to take unlimited refugees.
I have plane tickets and hotels already booked for Cairo, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Jordan (Amman, Petra, Dead Sea) for February. I’m trying to figure out what is salvageable. Israel is probably out but currently I’m still keeping the rest of the trip and will probably just spend the time I had allotted for Israel and fly from Istanbul to Greece for those days then on to Amman. Egypt, of course will depend on the refugee crisis and how many flow into the area. I would appreciate any advice from people who have spent time in the region.
The Palestinians destroyed Lebanon, the Jewel of the Mediterranean, when Arafat exiled there. It’s now a garbage heap. Sisi knows this.
“they would only allow foreigners to cross the border if aid could pass in the opposite direction”
Why is humanitarian aid being blocked?
“corpses were piling up in the main hospital’s morgue and under rubble”
Which kind? The “women and children” type we’re told justifies Israel’s bombing of civilians, or the nondescript type we’re suppose to pretend don’t matter?
“a mass displacement from the enclave could mean an end to the aspirations of a Palestinian state”
Bingo. That’s Israel’s intention. That’s what all of this is about.
“Sisi earlier this week ordered tents to be pitched in the Egyptian towns”
Courage. al-Sisi stands above the rest in both understanding the objectives of the Israeli invasion, and his willingness to help the Palestinians running from the death warrant signed by the “international community.”
“What right do Western leaders have to demand Egypt open their borders to known terrorists?”
None. And also no right to demand anyone take in innocent Palestinians running for their lives. There is only one solution: Stop Israel’s pending genocide disguised as counter-terrorism. Withdraw all US support from Israel and force them to negotiate, just as we’ve said is the solution to the Ukraine-Russia war.
One purpose of this war was to flood the west with more Islamic refugees.
Perhaps this is why pro Egypt menendez is getting the treatment
I know on no one who speaks as directly as Sundance on these matters other than Raymond Ibrahim. Thanks for keeping this data before the public eye.
It took a massive uprising of Egyptians a decade ago to oust Morsi, the terrorist leader of the Obama/CIA backed, funded, and installed, globally-condemned violent Muslim Brotherhood.
Americans will not enjoy such relief for the military does not support The People. A global genocide is underway with zero active resistance.
Treasonous actions from Obama / Biden. Overt support for a terrorist organization is treason.
one world order~ threatening one nation after another…beatings will continue until morale improves…