Comment by trollbridge

1 day ago

This is to a large part to give Egypt plausible deniability. They don’t want to deal with Gaza, refugees, or a humanitarian crisis, but also don’t want the political fallout of taking action like the Israelis do.

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ceejayoz  1 day ago

Eh, 50/50. Israel would not respond positively to Egypt throwing the gates wide open.

  • shykes  18 hours ago

    On the contrary, I believe Israel would be delighted. It would lessen the humanitarian burden on them, and force Egypt to deal with the Hamas problem more directly. It will never happen, though. No Arab country will "throw the gates wide open" for Palestinians. They have done so before, several times, and it went very badly.

  • don_esteban  1 day ago

    The Israeli openly proposed for the Gaza Palestinians to move to Egypt (effectively ethnic cleansing Gaza, their obvious goal), not that long after 7.10.

    Egypt said 'HELL NO', first, because they don't want to deal with Palestinians (both political and economic nightmare), and second because it would have been viewed as ceding to Israelis and helping them cleanse Gaza, which would be highly unpopular among their population.

    • ceejayoz  1 day ago

      > The Israeli openly proposed for the Gaza Palestinians to move to Egypt

      Yeah, that's not "wide open". Israel would absolutely be happy with a one-way exit gate.

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  • philistine  1 day ago

    That is very reductive of the whole situation. The Egyptians are not singularly focused on helping Palestinians; it is far more nuanced than that.

    Bottom line, Egyptians are not interested in supporting millions of refugees inside their border. So the border stays closed to mass immigration.