There’s a lot of hoopla in the news about Gaza civilians living in an “open-air prison,” with nowhere to flee. So, looking at a map, it’s important to realize that assuredly Israel, who just suffered a murderous attack by Hamas, isn’t going to welcome in Palestinians from along its 36 mile long border with Gaza. Gaza has 24 miles of coastline, which the Israeli navy has blockaded since 2009, due to Palestinian terrorism. Egypt shares an 8 mile long border with Gaza and Egypt maintains a tightly sealed border, due to Hamas, another Muslim Brotherhood off-shoot organization. Egypt isn’t going to allow Gazan refugees in and risk importing more terrorists. Likewise, no other Arab countries want to take in refugees from Gaza, because their countries don’t want to deal with more Muslim Brotherhood terrorism within their own borders. Some will finance terrorism abroad, but they don’t want it at home.
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, wrote this piece, Egypt: No way we let Gazans into our country, yesterday, which gives a good historical background:
“In fact, it was ridiculous to expect Egypt to open corridors for a Gazan retreat in the first place. Perhaps Western diplomats forget the circumstances in which Egypt’s leader, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, came to power in 2014. A popular uprising from the Muslim Brotherhood in the so-called Arab spring forced Hosni Mubarak from power and eventually led to the election of Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohammed Morsi as president in 2011. The new Muslim Brotherhood government rapidly began to radicalize Egypt, and the military conducted a coup led in part by al-Sisi in 2013, after which followed a period of violence between the interim regime and forces led by the Muslim Brotherhood attempting to restore Morsi. In 2014, al-Sisi won the elections run by the military government at the time, and he’s been a target of the Muslim Brotherhood ever since.”
“Why does this matter? Hamas is a spin-off and ally of the Muslim Brotherhood. To admit two million Gazan supporters of Hamas into Egypt, even if one could filter out the actual Hamas terrorists, would be a form of suicide for al-Sisi. To even ask for this from al-Sisi is an expression of historical ignorance. Mubarak and al-Sisi both kept the containment policy firmly in place for their own survival, and one of the reasons the Egyptian military took action to depose Morsi was because he was about to lift that strategy:”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/10/12/egypt-no-way-we-let-gazans-into-our-country-n584227
The Biden administration, being Team Obama folks, will likely have a muddled policy in dealing with this latest crisis, because President Obama sucked up to the Muslim Brotherhood and while the Obama administration kept mouthing US support for Israel, in deed Obama backed Morsi (an Islamist with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt. Here’s a 2013 article from The Guardian, US in bind over Egypt after supporting Morsi but encouraging protesters, which delves into the Egyptian military ousting the Muslim Brotherhood-backed, Morsi. Obama’s foreign policy enabled Muslim extremists, both Sunni and Shia types. Obama backed Morsi when he was ousted from power, but his administration hedged on calling it a coup, which would have cut off US aid to Egypt:
“Obama said on Wednesday he was “deeply concerned” by the military’s move to topple Morsi’s government and suspend Egypt’s constitution. He said he was ordering the US government to assess what the military’s actions meant for US foreign aid to Egypt.”
“Under US law, the government must suspend foreign aid to any nation whose elected leader is ousted in a coup d’etat. The US provides $1.5bn a year to Egypt in military and economic assistance.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/03/egypt-obama-us-mohamed-morsi-crisis
The al-Sisi government set about cleaning house of Muslim Brotherhood and here’s a 2014 BBC article, –Egypt court sentences 528 Morsi supporters to death, which explains, “Authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists since Mr Morsi was removed by the military in July. Hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested.” There’s no way Egypt is going to let in Gazan refugees.
For the US, unfortunately, it does appear that academia in America is infested with radical leftists, who have indoctrinated American young people to hate America, to hate Israel and embrace Islamist terrorism. Too many of our college and university staffs are a wasteland of aging Marxists and radical extremists. Unfortunately, some of them are also prominent players in the Biden White House foreign policy team and within top Dem. circles.
Today is some Hamas-proclaimed “Global Day of Rage” urging jihad around the world, so we’ll see how many protests occur around the US and world. However, while understanding Jewish leaders and people’s concerns, it’s absolutely appalling if Jewish schools or places of worship cancel events today due to feeling unsafe. Our government should protect Jewish citizens from hate and Jewish citizens should not have to hideaway, because some Jihadist terrorists and radical leftists are threatening them.
That’s totally unacceptable in America.
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