Arab Nations Won’t Accept Gazans
Egypt and Jordan have refused to accept Palestinians fleeing the Gaza Strip.
“There will be no refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt,” Jordan’s King Abdullah II said. “That is a red line, because I think that is a plan by certain of the usual suspects to try and create de facto issues on the ground.”
However, many Palestinians are paying up to $10,000 to smugglers operating around Rafah, a Gazan city bordering Egypt, to escape Hamas’s rule in Gaza. Contacts in Gaza connect fleeing Palestinians to “brokers” from Cairo, Egypt, who require cash payment, sometimes involving middlemen from Europe and the United States.
Hamas demonstrates no care for its citizens. As the ruling body of the Strip, the terrorist organization is responsible for the safety and well-being of Gazans. But by planning and perpetrating a massacre, sparking a war with Israel, and then using citizens in schools and hospitals as human shields, it effectively signed many of its people’s death warrants. While many Arab nations routinely side with other Arabs, like the Palestinians, over Jewish Israelis, they know that where mass immigration of Palestinians comes, trouble often follows. Egypt and Jordan’s denial of fleeing Gazans speaks volumes to Gazans’ international reputation of troublemaking, due largely to groups like Hamas. The greatest path to Gazans’ peace and safety comes through Hamas laying down its arms and surrendering to Israel, which we hope will come to pass sooner than later.
