Thursday, February 13, 2025

Solution? Shift Palestinians From Gaza to Egypt/Jordan...?

"We contribute a lot of money to Jordan and to Egypt, by the way, a lot to both. But I don't have to threaten that. I think we're above that."
"I'm talking about building a permanent place for them [because Gaza is] not habitable."
"Yeah, maybe, sure why not? [cut off aid to Egypt and Jordan should they not agree to accept Palestinian refugees]."
"I have a feeling that despite them saying no, I have a feeling that the king in Jordan and that the general — president — but that the general in Egypt will open their hearts and will give us the kind of land that we need to get this done."
U.S. President Donald Trump 
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ABC News
 
"Partition meant that millions of people found themselves on the ‘wrong’ side of the borders. Ten million became refugees in what was the largest population movement in history. Muslims travelled to Pakistan; Sikhs and Hindus to India. Up to a million of these refugees were killed in a series of horrific massacres in the border regions."
1947 British Withdrawal/Partition of India/Pakistan
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During Jordan's King Abdullah's visit to the White House the discussion between himself and President Trump turned rather uncomfortable for the King, recalling possibly his father King Hussein's adventure with Palestinians using Jordan's border with Israel as a means of bombarding the Jewish State; bad enough the PLO was inviting the Israeli military to respond by bombing areas inside in Jordan. Worse, however, was the aggregate Palestinian presence leading to a move within to remove the Hashemites from Jordanian rule, ('Black September' conflict) sending them back to Saudi Arabia (or their death beds) while Palestinians would happily take on the burden of ruling Jordan in its transformation to a Palestinian state.
 
Abdullah finally committed to an exercise in Solomonic wisdom, offering to take a thousand Palestinian children suffering from cancer or "in a very ill state" back to Jordan to give them haven and the medical attention required "as quickly as possible". That offer/solution was inspired and it pleased Trump immensely as a start to siphoning Palestinian civilians out of Gaza in a larger bid to remove all members of Hamas as well as the entire population while excavating the bombed-out mess the Strip has become during Israel's war against the Palestinian terrorists pledging to destroy Israel.
 
The vision of Gaza as a U.S.-owned 'Riviera" has failed to please the larger audience in the Middle East; not so inspired a solution to solving Palestinian violence against Israel, after all perhaps. On the other hand, if Arab leaders of surrounding nations have no solutions to offer that would safeguard the Jewish state from further, ongoing attacks -- meant to slaughter as many Jews as possible and in the process lavish the tender mercies of sadistic savages on those Jews unfortunate enough to be caught in the act of living, by torturing, mutilating, murdering babies, infants, the elderly, while raping and dismembering girls and women -- they might do well to cooperate.
 
King Abdullah was prepared to deliver a joint message from the Arab world that they would not stand for eliminating a Palestinian presence in the 'West Bank' and Gaza, as they continue to emphasize that Palestinians must have a state of their own, despite that it has demonstrated time and again that the only state that would suit the Palestinians is one that encompassed the entire land mass (small as it is) between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Palestinians are resistant to reason and prepared to support their belligerent entitlement with more martyrs and more, many more dead Jews, even if retaliation measures infinitely greater numbers of dead Palestinians.
 
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A tank of the Palestinian Liberation Army takes position on September 24, 1970, during fighting between the Jordanian army and Palestinian Fedayeens in the so-called Black September events.
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President Trump's original recommendation that Jordan and Egypt open their borders for the permanent settlement of Palestinians within their territories has somehow failed to enthuse the King and the General/President. Even for Mr. Trump's noble purpose of rebuilding the Strip that has become a "demolition site". That President Trump was adamant that Palestinians would not be invited to return to Gaza when pointedly asked, won him no fond regards from the Arab world. 
 
As the fourth and fifth largest beneficiaries of American generosity in foreign aid to their countries, Jordan and Egypt, both of whose economies lag far behind those of their oil-rich Middle East brethren would feel the pinch of a withdrawal of U.S. aid. Jordan in particular, for which the financial assistance represents 3 percent of its GDP. And as much as Egypt needs financial assistance it could still hobble along without U.S. generosity which represents a mere 0.5 percent of its gross domestic product.
 
Arab nations are concerned with the wider Middle East situation where Israel has carried out attacks in Lebanon and Syria. And thus speaks another terrorist group, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah. Internal security concerns are uppermost in mind for most Middle East nations; the known and demonstrated propensity of Palestinians to foment problems wherever they happen to roost makes them less than desirable guests. Anywhere they happen to land the terrorist operatives among them target Israel, drawing host Arab nations into the Palestinian dysfunction of continual terrorism.
 
Forced migration of huge populations have taken place. At great cost in human life all too often, but recognized at times as necessary when deep-rooted violent antipathies between people representing sectarian conflict and tribal animosities of long duration in a regional culture of the strong eating the weak represent a fact of life, one that civilized mores demand a response to, when separation is the only solution. No one should have to live next to a neighbour whose endless plots of violation of the human rights of the other claim beauty in death in  honour of a religious devotion whose sacred writing demands no less.
 
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The Palestinian terrorist group governed the Gaza Strip before launching a surprise attack on Israel in 2023. Now facing Israel’s military campaign to destroy it, Hamas’s future is in doubt, as is Gaza’s. Council on Foreign Relations
 

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posted by Pieface @ Thursday, February 13, 2025

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Capitulating to the Imperative to Rescue Israeli Hostages

"A few minutes ago, I received the final word that all obstacles have been overcome and that the agreement is underway."
"Now they are working on the final technical wording."
"I want to congratulate Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu; he is responsible for the agreement."
Aryeh Deri, chairman, Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas Party

"I fully expect that implementation will begin, as we said, on Sunday. Look, it's not exactly surprising that in a process in a negotiation, that has been this challenging this fraught, you may get a loose end."
"We're tying up that loose end as we speak; I've been on the phone, in one way or another, all morning with [U.S. National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa] Brett McGurk, with our Qatari friends, and I am very confident this is moving forward."
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
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This photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, with his security cabinet in Jerusalem to vote on a ceasefire deal after confirming an agreement had been reached that would pause the 15-month war with Hamas in Gaza. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office/The Associated Press)

Earlier in the day on Thursday, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office revealed that Hamas had reneged on parts of the ceasefire agreement that had been announced on Wednesday; Hamas making an effort to extort last-minute concessions on a ceasefire agreement that would halt Israel's bombing of Hamas installations in Gaza, while returning up to a thousand Palestinian prisoners currently held in Israeli prisons for criminal terrorist activities in exchange for Israeli and foreign hostages left in Hamas hands.

The Axios news outlet cited an American government source confirming that the final disputes setting the ceasefire-for-hostages-and-terrorists-release agreement had been "resolved, and the agreement is now done". The agreement is now scheduled to be greenlit  Friday morning following a vote in the full cabinet. The agreement is set to go into effect on Sunday. The White House stated it is confident the ceasefire could yet be implemented.

The Palestinian Hamas organization was seen by Israeli negotiators as attempting to change the rules of the agreement, backtracking parts of the deal "in an effort to extort last-minute concessions". Hamas, a terrorist organization, feels entitled in its conflict with Israel, to appear the underdog, yet it negotiates as though it scents victory in its ongoing campaign to discredit the Jewish State internationally while continuing to pose a threat through continued deadly attacks, even while its position has changed from one of strength of personnel and military hardware to one of critical losses of both under Israel's Gaza invasion and destruction of its weapons caches and elite commanders.

Thirty-three named hostages both living and dead carved out of the 98 still held by Hamas in Gaza over a period 468 days -- since thousands of terrorists stormed southern Israel farming communities on October 7, 2023, to slaughter 1,200 Israelis, rape countless girls and women, burn entire families in their homes, commit sadistic acts of torture and dismemberment, killing infants to the elderly -- are now slated to be freed, to return to their families in Israel.
 
In exchange, up to a thousand Palestinians, found guilty of crimes are to be freed from Israeli prisons. Among the 33 Israelis, there are nine ill and wounded hostages to be released in exchange for the release of 110 Palestinians in prison serving life sentences. A withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces from the critical Philadelphi Corridor (along which weapons for Hamas were delivered from Egypt to Gaza) was a new demand that Hamas attempted to write into the agreement. PM Netanyahu "strongly insisted" the Hamas additional request be dropped.

The Philadelphi corridor has been implicated in past smuggling of arms and personnel into Gaza, and as such represents a need for Israeli troops to be present in the sensitive zone, since it was "crucial to stop weapons smuggling", as asserted by Mr. Netanyahu.

Furthermore the Religious Zionism Party signalled it would consider exiting the coalition with its seven Knesset members over the ceasefire deal. A member of Mr. Netanyahu's Likud Party, Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism announced his intention to resign "if there is a withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor [before the war goals are achieved], or if we do not return to fighting to achieve the war goals". 

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich demanded a commitment to resuming the war's intention to fully dismantle Hamas and secure release of all hostages following this first phase; a condition for his party's continued presence in the government coalition. To do otherwise is to allow Hamas to regroup, recruit, rearm and get on with its promise to continue to commit additional October 7 atrocities, as long as it takes to destroy Israel.

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An Israeli woman holds a candle during a pro-ceasefire agreement rally in Jerusalem late Thursday. The long-awaited agreement would take effect Sunday and involve the initial exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. (John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images)


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