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> Food for thought why Egypt and Jordan refuse to ease the sufferring of Gazans by offering them temporary refugee statuses, until Hamas is eradicated and they
by nix-zarathustra 2y ago
> Food for thought why Egypt and Jordan refuse to ease the sufferring of Gazans by offering them temporary refugee statuses, until Hamas is eradicated and they could live in Gaza happily ever after.
Historically, Palestinians have destablized those countries. Palestinians assassinated the King of Jordan[1] and a Prime Minister[2]. Not to mention the instability in Lebanon from Palestinian migrants [3]. Eventually Jordan had to expel the Palestinians from Jordan. [4]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_I_of_Jordan#Assassination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_I_of_Jordan#Assassina...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Wasfi_Tal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Wasfi_Tal
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
- bbqfog 2y agoPalestinians would be in Palestine if they weren't being ethnically cleansed by the Zionists. Any destabilization rests firmly at the feet of Zionism.
- sickofparadox 2y agoBeing displaced from your home country does not give you moral shielding for killing the leaders of another. In fact, I would argue that being displaced from your home means you owe a debt of gratitude to the countries that take you in, which makes bad behavior in them more often reprehensible.
- bbqfog 2y agoYou're doing a lot of work to avoid placing the blame where it belongs: Zionism.
- sickofparadox 2y agoIf something terrible happens to you in your life, you don't get to just take it out on random people. That goes doubly for those reaching a hand out in assistance.
- bbqfog 2y agoYet that's exactly what Zionists did to Palestine.