• @YoBuckStopsHereOP
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    181 year ago

    By putting a fleet off the shore of Isreal we prevent Syria and Egypt from getting involved.

    • BraveSirZaphod
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      251 year ago

      Egypt is generally a pretty cooperative partner with Israel and the US.

      After all, Gaza has a border with Egypt that the Egyptian military also blockades, though of course no one likes to talk about that detail very much.

      • nyoooom
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        61 year ago

        Yes I was very surprised and confused as to why Gaza would be stuck if they could just trade easily through Egypt, now it makes more sense, they’re just fucked.

        • BraveSirZaphod
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          91 year ago

          That’s the thing. For as much nominal support the Arab world gives Palestine, there is absolutely nothing preventing Jordan and Egypt from welcoming in Palestinians.

          Except that Palestinian militants conducted an attempted coup against Jordan in 1970, and Hamas routinely conducts terrorist attacks throughout the Sinai peninsula, so neither country actually wants to deal with them.

          • TechyDad
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            71 year ago

            For decades, Arab countries played up the “plight of the Palestinians” not because they cared about those people, but because it distracted those countries’ citizens. It gave them an external enemy to hate (Israel) instead of asking questions about their own governments’ actions.

            Jordon could have easily absorbed the Palestinians into their general population, but doing so would have removed a political pawn that Jordon could use against Israel. It was better for Jordon if the Palestinians were poor refugees living in squalor so that they could keep saying “look at what Israel did.”

            NOTE: I’m not absolving Israel for any of its actions. I’m just adding to the discussion by pointing out that the Arab nations only cared about the Palestinians to advance their own goals. The second their goals didn’t align with the Palestinians’ well-being, they were happy to let the Palestinians suffer and die.

          • @Simpsonator
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            31 year ago

            Are you suggesting that Jordan and Egypt don’t care about Palestinians because they don’t allow Israel to forcibly relocate millions of refugees to their countries? Beyond the fact it’s a war crime, it doesn’t really improve the situation for anyone but Israel.

            • @kbotc
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              61 year ago

              The Gaza Strip literally was Egyptian territory. Hamas is a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood. The Apartheid state as it exists is largely the fault of the two major attempts by neighboring countries to exterminate Israel and failing.

              Egypt should care about the humanitarian crisis as it played a major part in starting it.

              • @Simpsonator
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                11 year ago

                I agree with the second part of your statement. Egypt could do more. But I’m not understanding what the first part has to do with forced displacement to Egypt. Is that somehow justified by the history?

      • @YoBuckStopsHereOP
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        -21 year ago

        This looks like the final straw and the Palestinians will be kicked out of Israel for good. They likely will be relocated to Egypt.

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          Hamas are terrorist clowns and do not represent the Palestinian people. In fact, quite a few Palestinians hate Hamas. Israel knows this.

        • @weedazz
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          91 year ago

          Lol 2 million people are not going to get relocated “for good”

          • WagesOf
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            31 year ago

            Israel only exists because millions of Jews were relocated “for good.”

          • @YoBuckStopsHereOP
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            11 year ago

            I don’t think they will be given the choice.