Nearly half of the homes in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, the United Nations reported. According to a recently released report from the U.N. …
Egypt knows any Palestinian refugee that leaves Palestine will never be allowed to return home. Letting Gazans into Sinai would be to permanently accepting them, and also likely result in Israel invading Egypt to create a “safe zone”, possibly dragging Egypt into the war. The Gazans would be politically destabilizing, due to the strain that admitted potentially over a million refugees with nothing would cause on the already struggling domestic economy.
What if the Palestinian refugee doesn’t want to return home? Why isn’t that up to them? Because Egypt doesn’t want them. They would be fine if they all left right now.
How is them not being allowed citizenship if they want it moot? Egypt and Jordan could offer it to them any time they wanted. But they’re using this as an excuse to keep them as second-class and keep them working the shit jobs no one else in those countries want to do. All because “they might get to return someday.” It’s a bullshit excuse to treat them like shit.
Egypt knows any Palestinian refugee that leaves Palestine will never be allowed to return home. Letting Gazans into Sinai would be to permanently accepting them, and also likely result in Israel invading Egypt to create a “safe zone”, possibly dragging Egypt into the war. The Gazans would be politically destabilizing, due to the strain that admitted potentially over a million refugees with nothing would cause on the already struggling domestic economy.
What if the Palestinian refugee doesn’t want to return home? Why isn’t that up to them? Because Egypt doesn’t want them. They would be fine if they all left right now.
Well the Palestinians aren’t being given a choice regardless, so your hypothetical is a bit moot.
How is them not being allowed citizenship if they want it moot? Egypt and Jordan could offer it to them any time they wanted. But they’re using this as an excuse to keep them as second-class and keep them working the shit jobs no one else in those countries want to do. All because “they might get to return someday.” It’s a bullshit excuse to treat them like shit.