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Thread #172755 Message #4190919
Posted By: Steve Shaw
15-Oct-23 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Subject: RE: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Sorry, Bill, but the evacuation of Gaza has long been hinted at. The Israeli military has in the past suggested that Sinai, which is a desert area belonging to Egypt, would be an alternative Palestinian state, conveniently out of Israel's way, of course. Unfortunately for Israel, the Rafa crossing from Gaza into Egypt is very jealously guarded by Egypt. It's literally the only escape route for Gazans but Egypt allows no more than a daily trickle in and out via that route, and is fiercely resisting Israel's desire to use the crossing as the means of evacuation of Gaza. Egypt's economy is in a parlous state and there's no way they will accept millions of refugees, which, of course, Israel would abandon. Egypt has trashed a large area of the Sinai adjacent to the Rafah crossing in order to discourage settlement there. As for Gazans, they know that if they escape en masse into Egypt they will never be allowed to return. Reality, Bill, and there's no way that Gazans can be relocated to the occupied West Bank. It's already overcrowded, it lacks infrastructure already and has been ravaged by the building of illegal Israeli settlements.
One last thing, that I've already said a couple of times: there is only one way for Israel to carry out its stated aim of eradicating Hamas, and that is to completely evacuate Gaza. They can try for the next few years to root them out but that will never happen, and Hamas are not stupid and they've had decades to dig themselves in. And all the time there will be an unlimited supply of radicalised new recruits.