Egypt, Jordan Stand Fast: No More Palestinian Refugees

Jordan, Egypt Unwilling to Take More Palestinian refugees

Doubling down on its cruelty and arrogant displacement of people out of their ancestral lands, and in its efforts to make Palestinian refugees out of the same refugees it made in 1948 and 1967, the criminal state of Israel is begging Jordan and Egypt to take the 2.2 million Palestinians of Gaza as refugees.

But Jordan and Egypt seem to have learned past lessons and are saying they will not accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza, as Jordanian King Abdullah II said Tuesday. President Al-Sissi of Egypt wondered why ethnic cleanser Israel wants to displace the Gaza Palestinians to Egypt's Sinai desert when it has its own huge Neguev desert right next to Gaza. Yet, one fears that US enticements and bribery will make these two countries accept the refugees, which is likely to end like previous Palestinian population displacement at the hands of the barbarian colonialist European Jews: Stay in refugee camps for decades, if not forever if the criminal Zionists have their wish.

“This is a situation that has to be handled within Gaza and the West Bank,” King Abdullah said in a meeting with the German chancellor, The Associated Press reported. “And you don’t have to carry this out on the shoulders of others.”

Israel’s relentless aerial bombardment campaign in Gaza has killed thousands, including over 1,000 children. Over a million people — half of Gaza’s population — have also been displaced as food, water and medical supplies run out. “The whole region is on the brink,” Abdullah said. “This new cycle of violence is leading us towards the abyss.”

There is no way for Gazans to leave the small, 140 square-mile territory except for a single border crossing with Egypt in the south, but the Egyptian government has been reluctant to accept refugees — wary that there would be no way for them to return to their homes, as happened in 1948 and in 1967.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi denounced the strikes on the Egypt-Palestine border crossing of Rafah on Thursday, which have also prevented humanitarian aid from entering the region. He said it is in the best interest of Palestinians to stay in Gaza.

The hypocrite westerners are pretexting a humanitarian desire to send aid to Gaza, in order for the Rafah border to open, which might lead to the exodus of the Palestinians into Egypt. One hopes that the Palestinians have learned from their previous mistakes: Better stay on your land and fight and die in dignity if you must, than leave and become refugees a third time due to Israel's criminality. Remember that a large majority of the Palestinians of Gaza are already refugees from the ethnic cleansing carried out by Jews in 1948 and 1967. Israel seems to be an expert in recycling and re-using human refugees in repetitively barbaric warfare.

“The threat is significant because it means the liquidation of the Palestinian cause,” el-Sissi said. “It’s important for Gaza people to stay steadfast and exist on their land.”

United Nations experts have accused both the Israeli military and Hamas of committing war crimes in the conflict. Arab resistance against forcing the Palestinians to become refugees again seems to be working: President Biden no longer speaks only of his unqualified support for Israel, but he is now issuing calls to "consider and accommodate" Gazan civilians. "Considering and accommodating" is nothing short of cowardly language, as Biden is obviously terrified at what the Zionist lobby might do to him if he uses language in tune with the Egyptian and Jordanian positions.

In a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday, Biden said an Israeli military occupation of Gaza would be a mistake. Great. He is buckling on the fence-sitting.