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The Left's War On Christians Title: "Real problem with the Palestinians: Nobody wants them" President Trump has “suggested” that Egypt and Jordan provide temporary refuge to more than 1 million Palestinians. At the same time, the U.S. and the international community combine to rebuild the Gaza Strip and, as he has put it, “turn it into the Riviera” of the Middle East. He threatens foreign aid cutoffs and targeted tariffs if either country refuses, as both have vowed. Since the current war began, as many as 150,000 Gaza Palestinians have legally and mostly illegally crossed the border into neighboring Egypt to join several hundred thousand others living and studying there. Many pay the Middle Eastern counterparts of the coyotes smuggling people over our southern border as much as $5,000 per person to get into Egypt despite that country’s efforts to choke off the migrant flood. Mr. Trump’s suggestion seems to make sense. Still, the nature of the refugees and the history countries of the region have had in dealing with Palestinian refugees make it unlikely that Egypt or Jordan will go along with him in the face of either threats or incentives. Egypt’s concerns, like those of other countries in the region, are ideological and fearful. Egyptians will more than likely react just like Americans to a flood of needy migrants. The potential internal consequences of allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into the country are fiscal but also cultural. The ideological concern stems from the support Egypt and others in the region have pledged to the concept of a Palestinian state and the fear that disbursing Palestinians from Gaza to other countries will almost inevitably be seen by hard-liners as selling out the desires of the Palestinians. Palestinians, wherever they are, demand a “right of return” to the territory they see as their own, a “right” rejected by Israel and its supporters. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the King of Jordan and rulers of other countries in the region make it clear without saying that they do not like the Palestinians, don’t trust them and don’t want them. This is of particular concern to the Egyptians, who had such a rough time with the Muslim Brotherhood until Mr. el-Sissi ousted its members. He knows that the Palestinians likely to come to Egypt are members of Hamas or quiet supporters of the terrorist organization, which, in turn, has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Keeping their numbers down is a national security issue. Leaders in the region know what’s likely to happen if too many Israel- hating Palestinians enter. Immersed in Hamas and Palestine Liberation Organization propaganda since childhood, most Palestinians eschew assimilation and pursue the eradication of Jews from wherever they may be. When Yasser Arafat and his PLO, the prominent Palestinian organization of the 1970s, used Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to attack Israel, the result was a 15-year civil war and Israeli occupation of the southern part of that country. To say that Lebanon has never been the same is an understatement. Palestinian radicals in Jordan tried the same thing until they were hunted down and expelled. Egypt’s mainstay tourism is down 30% from the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. It doesn’t have the economic bandwidth for more losses. Humanitarian organizations are no doubt correct that many, if not most, Palestinians are neither members of Hamas nor willing to sacrifice everything to their desire to destroy Israel and kill Jews as they fight to regain the land “from the river to the sea.” Still, enough Palestinians are radicalized to make them pariahs in neighboring countries such as Egypt. Mohamed Abdelaziz, the late leader of the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara next to the Palestinians, the largest group in Africa without a “homeland,” asked why the Palestinians get all the international attention and his people got none. The Sahrawi are literate, peaceful and prepared to run a government. At the same time, as he put it, “the Palestinian leadership spends all its time teaching their people to despise Jews and training terrorists. The only thing they are good at is making bombs and killing people.” • David Keene is editor-at-large at The Washington Times. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
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Our State Department has been compromised for decades...MUD
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