U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Israel and has pledged U.S. support as the Israeli military bombards Hamas-ruled Gaza with airstrikes, and is preparing for a possible ground invasion. Hamas jihadis have fired thousands of rockets into Israel, and continue to do so. Egypt has now committed to providing humanitarian aid, but it has shut down its border to Palestinian refugees from Gaza. Israel also currently refuses to allow goods to enter Gaza “until around 150 hostages taken captive by Hamas during a weekend attack are freed.” 2.3 million people are now blockaded between Israel and Egypt. The bottom line is that while Egypt is willing to serve as a mediator and even to advance the view that Israel return to pre-1967 borders, its president, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, is committed to his own country’s security interests. Egypt fears what Gazans may bring into Egypt if it opens its borders.
As result of the high level of terrorist activity and threat among Palestinians over the decades, Egypt is shutting down the only other escape route from Gaza besides Israel—the Rafah crossing. According to Reuters:
Egypt has long restricted the flow of Gazans on to its territory, even during the fiercest conflicts. Cairo, a frequent mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, always insists the two sides resolve conflicts within their borders, saying this the only way Palestinians can secure their right to statehood.
Gaza is saturated with jihadists, and Palestinians are now facing the ruins of a war that was started by Hamas — the jihadist group that Palestinians themselves chose to rule Gaza — an area also dominated by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Both groups have worked hard to stir Palestinian zeal, even on a global level. Hamas is also supported by the global Muslim Brotherhood and Hizballah, which has been warned by America and Western allies to stay out of the war. Fatah, meanwhile, has praised Hamas and vowed to expand the war to Judea and Samaria. Iran is the chief funder and eternal instigator of all this. To further complicate matters, ISIS flags were discovered on the bodies of Hamas jihad terrorists in Kibbutz Sufa after its attack on that community.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has stated that “guarding Egypt’s national security is his top responsibility, and there will be no compromise or complacency under any circumstances.”
Most Palestinians collectively ascribe to the jihadist obliteration of Israel: two-thirds of Palestinians actually believe that Israel would not exist in 25 years. Aside from children, they are not victims of their leadership; nor are they innocent bystanders. Palestinians, Hamas and other jihad terror groups work in synergy. One can observe the strength of the Palestinian “resistance,” which has even won acceptance at the highest levels of American politics. The mainstreaming of the Palestinian cause is apparent in protests across North America, as multitudes of demonstrators cheer on the savagery of Hamas. Palestinians are heavily indoctrinated from early childhood to hate Jews, and are even motivated toward martyrdom. They are indoctrinated at jihad summer camps, and are continuously exposed to antisemitic school curricula.
HAMAS is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. Hamas leaders “see themselves as a ‘resistance’ organization, and they worry that if they lay down their arms, they will be outflanked by more radical factions within the Palestinian community and, like Fatah before them, lose their credibility among ordinary Palestinians.”
The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found “a dramatic surge in Palestinian support for Hamas” following the Gaza war of 2021, when Hamas attacked Israel with rocket fire, and Israel responded with Operation Guardian of the Walls. According to the Associated Press, the Palestinians viewed Hamas as “victors in a battle against Israel to defend Jerusalem and its holy sites.”
The Palestinians gave Hamas reason to intensify its “resistance,” and Hamas rose to the challenge, committing unimaginable atrocities against women, elderly people and even infants, who were beheaded along with IDF soldiers. Now Hamas is calling on Gazans to be human shields:
Hamas’ Interior Ministry: “We again call on [Gazan] citizens not to cooperate with the recorded phone messages that the occupation (i.e., Israel) is sending at random, asking people to leave their homes”
Again Hamas proves that its “resistance” is worth more than Palestinian lives, and the group may get its wish one way or another.
What brought El-Sisi to this point began with the turbulence that resulted in the 2013 military coup against Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, along with his party. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in Egypt, was an ideological ally of Hamas (an offshoot of the Brotherhood). Tensions flared when el-Sisi took a tough stance against Hamas “and ordered the destruction of a network of smuggling tunnels that had sustained Gaza’s economy.” Egypt also “retrospectively accused” Hamas of involvement in its 2011 revolution.
Although Egypt largely relaxed its border controls in 2018, and has improved its relations with Hamas over time, terrorism concerns persist. This is clear from Egypt’s latest decision to lock out Gazans. A further reason for Egypt’s reluctance to open its border to Gaza is that Sinai has seen ongoing of jihad fighting for over a decade. Egypt’s military has in recent years largely succeeded in asserting its control over northern Sinai, but the area still faces sporadic attacks.
Palestinians are now stuck in Gaza. As Egypt moves to protect its own interests, it will continue to exert strenuous efforts for an Israeli ceasefire. As the war continues, Egypt must balance its own interests with key players on both sides of the fence. On one side is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which has fully embraced its “brothers” of “Palestine”; and on the other, is Israel and its Western allies; El-Sisi has in the past bent over backwards to prove himself “moderate.” Egypt’s desire to see a ceasefire will become more urgent in times ahead, as it has shut down the one route that could give Palestinians a respite, in a war where Israel’s new unity government has formed a war cabinet and vows to “crush Hamas.”
somehistory says
Therre is no ‘two=state” thingy because mozlums refuse to get along with anyone….even others like themselves.
In this way, they can stay home and take their punishment.
I feel bad for the little kids who are used as human sheilds.
John Smith says
Your right Somehistory, this two state thingy will never work not when theirs muslims involved. Especially when the muslims are Palestinians, they are all die hard jihadi’s.
somehistory says
Thank you, John. And it’s good to hear from you.
bagsgroove says
The palestinians and muslims are savages. They don’t belong in the civilized world. All of them should be sent to their desert and not let them back.
Kuffar says
The Egyptians don’t want that human filth in their country. Jordan killed 22000 of the scum in the 70″s and threw them out. Lebanon let them into their country and the Palis turned the jewel of the middle east into a s h ! t hole.
bagsgroove says
These pieces of shit turn everywhere they go into shitholes.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has stated that “guarding Egypt’s national security is his top responsibility, and there will be no compromise or complacency under any circumstances.”
Interestingly, when the leaders of Poland and Hungary say that national security is their top responsibility, they are called racist, islamophobic, etc., blah blah blah.
somehistory says
True, James, and we know the reason for that.
Egypt already has their share of mozlum terrorists and supporters of terror. Poland and Hungary are way below what mozlums and their supporters want to invade and eventually take over..
bagsgroove says
These pieces of shit turn everywhere they go into shitholes.
Jack Reynolds says
As anticipated, it is beginning here in Toronto too. There were two Toronto Hate incidents earlier today.
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https://www.cp24.com/news/chief-says-toronto-police-boosting-presence-to-reassure-community-amid-israel-hamas-war-1.6598219
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https://www.cp24.com/news/student-stabbed-outside-toronto-high-school-police-1.6598776
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Meanwhile in Montreal – https://www.cp24.com/news/air-canada-pilot-s-unacceptable-posts-against-israel-result-in-job-loss-1.6597600
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Toronto Protest – Saturday Oct 14, 2023 – 4-5 PM
344 Bloor Street West, just past the Spadina subway station.
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https://rumble.com/v3ownhb-bills-c-11-and-c-18.html
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BOTTOM LINE
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The average IQ of Middle Eastern countries is typically 83 or less. The average IQ of the Jews who fled Europe after WW-Two and settled in Israel is in the 112 to 115 range. The Jews created a wealthy Democratic nation where nothing other than poverty had existed prior to their arrival.
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That is what underlies the current problems in Israel. The two groups are highly incompatible. There is no workable solution other than a Two State Solution…. And take very, careful note of this situation. It has clear implications for CANADA, and every other Western country, except perhaps, Hungary and Poland where immigration has been carefully controlled.
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Islam in a few cases has expanded due to conquest, but in most instances, it is the result of maintaining a very high birth rate. Note that Toronto is home to North America’s largest Islamic population. The same people who insist that Muslims have a right to emigrate to Europe and North America, deny that true Jewish refugees had a right to emigrate to Israel, a country where they were welcomed.
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Watch this small protest on Saturday Oct 14th. If is focused on Bills C-11 and C-18, and has nothing to do with Immigration, however the organizer is Jewish. Watch how Toronto’s Islamic community responds. Will they try to ‘swamp’ the small protest in front of Cynthia Freedland’s office? That would be very, very typical. Don’t be too surprised if ANTFA members, residents of the nearby Gay Village, and a lot of other Leftist Woke folk turn up too.
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https://rumble.com/v3owtxf-cupe-and-hamas.html
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https://ijr.com/new-force-begins-rapid-mobilization-israel-things-soon-get-much-worse/
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James Lincoln says
Jack Reynolds says,
“There is no workable solution other than a Two State Solution”
Certainly not if they are right next to each other.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Gaza has always been the islamic worlds jihad pressure cooker and that won’t end anytime soon.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If Israel clears and re-annexes Gaza, that can change. They need to expel every muslim in their country
LeftisruiningCanada says
True enough, but the country is the people who live there, and they on the whole appear to be supportive of killing the jews wherever they find them.