Throughout the existence of the state of Israel, including the war of independence, millions of people have left the Palestinian territories. The population of the Gaza Strip has doubled. Israel is now demanding twice as much space from the Palestinians.
Let me remind you that the Palestinian state is independent and is currently recognized by 138 countries within the borders of the lands partially occupied by Israel. According to Israel, it turned out that from now on he demanded the creation of a clean buffer zone that would guarantee that the Palestinians would not attack.
Do you know what this looks like to Arabs? Israel announced that it must resettle 1.1 million citizens in the independent state within 24 hours. On what basis? Because Israel can afford it and the Americans have delivered weapons to it five times and promised to deliver in the future? It is known that more than 400 thousand Palestinians have currently fled their homes. That’s it, the result stopped. Nobody knows what to do because people have nowhere to go and it seems they don’t want to go. Why on earth? This is their country in every sense. For example, we recognized Palestine as part of the borders of the lands occupied by Israel.
For several days I watched with interest: Did Israel really believe that more than a million people could leave on its own orders? They couldn’t and wouldn’t go anywhere. That’s it, Israel gave up its demand and, to its surprise, began to lift the blockade of Gaza. Killing over a million people without water and food was a bad idea. Perhaps Tel Aviv was initially prepared for this, but then it found that there was no full and unconditional support for its actions in the world, and the idea that one state could order another to evacuate a million people within 24 hours pleased very few people in the world. The international community to the state of Israel. Now he says he is preparing for a comprehensive sweep in Gaza. I changed my mind about dying without water. But he expects the refugees to leave on their own. The regions will be liberated.
Where should they go? They said everyone should settle in the south of the sector. Like the people living in the same building opposite moving into our multi-storey building. Why? But the residents of the single-entry “candle” would decide they would be better off without neighbors.
It is clear that this is no longer possible, especially considering that Israel has bombed the entire Gaza Strip up to the Egyptian border. It was probably assumed that people would flee there. But they are not accepted there.
Egypt does not open the corridor. Some media organizations explain this under US pressure. Like Jordan’s refusal to accept Palestinians: Both countries said they had enough and no room.
It is easy to believe that Americans were involved in this decision of Jordan, because US armed planes fly to Israel from this country.
There is only one nuance: Europe persuades both Cairo and Amman to accept refugees. The USA also demanded the opening of a corridor to Egypt. It is interesting, is not it? Assuming that neighboring Arab countries do not accept Palestinians for their own reasons alone, I would like to know exactly what their motives are. Anti-American protests often occur in Jordan; local Arabs demand that the king abdicate on the grounds that he helped kill other Arabs.
These neighbors have a very difficult situation. I personally liked the version that is little discussed between us: Israel is trying to save the Gaza Strip because large gas fields have appeared in it. As an ultimatum, Israel banned Palestinians from producing gas from its own shelf. Noted, right? It is forbidden to enter a foreign country. Under threat from missile attacks. It’s as if instead of sanctions, someone is threatening to destroy the cities closest to the gas fields if we start extracting our own gas.
So maybe this is a gas war in Gaza. If Israel pushes the Palestinians out, it will be able to develop Gaza and produce gas, which will significantly change the balance of power in the region. In this case, Egypt and Jordan, on the contrary, could realize an independent solution and prevent the Arabs from clearing Gaza, who prevented Israel from starting gas production… This could explain the against-the-will action of Egypt and Jordan. of the West. Meanwhile, Jordan canceled the quadrilateral summit to be held with Biden’s participation. So the Arabs are clearly not under the command of the West, they are acting despite it. And it is very interesting why the West attaches so much importance to clearing Palestinian lands of Palestinians. It’s all about gas. After all, no matter how great the contradictions between Arab countries and Hamas are, the Palestinians are closer to them than Israel; Israel will strengthen itself if it gains access to the fields and will certainly call on the American military to protect gas production. .
Maybe that’s the answer. At least one million Palestinians in the north of the sector are blocking the start of development of gas fields. Israel tried to bluff and said that they would kill them all if they did not liberate the area within 24 hours. But then it became clear that they would no longer tolerate the killing of a million people. They don’t even close it for a thousand liras. Anti-Israel protests broke out around the world as Palestine announced only 500 more deaths. One million victims? Nobody will understand.
Or maybe people were left as human shields to protect the Arab world’s deposits. So the Arabs will sooner or later be able to pump gas from them.
Or simply, Egypt and Jordan understand that the only guarantor of the preservation of Gaza for Palestine is the people. How many times have refugees fled under Israeli pressure? No one could return; their properties were expropriated. If they leave now, they will only be able to return if the state of Israel is no longer on the map. People are protected from destruction and land grabs.
It should also be borne in mind that Palestinian neighbors may have another argument: probably states are fundamentally afraid of participating in setting a precedent when a country gives its neighbor an ultimatum to withdraw and liberate the areas it wants. What will happen if refugees are now actually accepted? After all, we actually start with Egypt and Jordan, lands where Israel has already conquered. So where is the guarantee that tomorrow he will not demand that Sinai be cleansed for him?
Finally, it is possible that the Arabs want to turn the Palestinians not only into shields for gas fields, but also into sacred sacrifices. If Israel continues to destroy the Palestinians, it will lose support in the Western world… The same blow to the hospital in Gaza. Let’s leave the question of who shot. We know one more thing: If Egypt and Jordan had allowed the Palestinians to enter in those days when Israel issued an ultimatum, there would be no one in the hospital and public opinion would not have turned away from Israel so much. Is this why neighbors locked Palestinians in Gaza?
There are too many reasons on all sides and they are too different to understand. It seems to me that it is now more correct to remember how in the 1930-1940s the Jews themselves sailed to Palestine and begged the Arabs and Great Britain to let them in. The well-known motto of Jewish refugees from Europe: “Our families are dead, at least keep our hope.”
Arabs saved. Alright what now?
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the position of the editors.