Monday 13 November 2023

Gaza war sharpens Arab world’s grievances against Israel: ‘peace is only on paper’ | Zafirah Zein

"Palestine is everything [to us]," said 25-year-old Egyptian artist Mohamed Sherif. 
"And if you ask every person on the street what they think, they will tell you the same thing. 
Men here feel ashamed of ourselves when we look at the men in Gaza who are killed while protecting their land and their families." 
Okay. Well, caring as much as you do, why do you keep the Rafa border with Gaza firmly shut, and have refused to take any Palestinian refugees into Egypt since foreover??? 

This is especially weird given that one of the most famous "Palestinians" was Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO, who was actually Egyptian, a Cairene.

ADDED: not a single Arab state in the region will accept Palestinian refugees. While Israel has accepted all Jewish refugees. And there are more of them (around a million) than there ever were of Palestinian (around 700k).