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An Israeli news report claims that the Netanyahu government has offered a raft of proposals to entice Egypt to open its doors to two million displaced Palestinians, despite Cairo's rejection

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[–] Geobloke@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Let's send people on an exodus to Egypt. No way they're gonna wanna come back. They either don't get irony or haven't read their own book

[–] filister@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

War crimes, what war crimes?

[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly has, meanwhile, sought to reassure investors about the state's finances. "I affirm that the Egyptian state has not failed and will not fail to pay any of its international obligations," he said in April.

Amid a foreign currency crunch, Egypt has drawn down net foreign assets in the banking system by more than $40 billion in two years, partly used to prop up the pound.

It seems like this deal would be beneficial in some ways, because it sounds like the world bank is kind of writing off parts of this debt already.

This way it allows for Egypt to build it's economy towards something different, at the expense of basically having to feed, dress, house, and police, 2 million people who are going to be hellbent on getting back at the people who harmed them.

On that topic, how does Israel have the power to write off debt?

House Republicans unveiled a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel on Monday

Oh..... right.... we're helping pay for it.... o_o

[–] Varan1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And all this money is by cutting funding to the IRS, so that the initiative to look into millionaires and billionaires cheating on taxes to the tune of hundreds of billions a year is dead. And also by completely cutting funding to Ukraine so that Putin, the biggest benefactor of the NRA, and thereby a huge benefactor to the GOP has some respite and can achieve some goals in his own effort to erase a people from nationhood. It's a win-win for in the crooked Republican strategy if it ever passes.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Remember when they sent 750k away from their homes and never allowed to come back?

[–] jesusrp98@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

*death cult

[–] TinyPizza@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never a missed opportunity to push people off "their" land. On to justice proud Israel marches on the corpses of 33 hundred children (it's ok, they were all either Hamas members or would be some day).

edit: Forgot to mention it's all Hamas's fault

[–] JewGoblin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't see Egypt doing this, didn't the Muslim brotherhood try to overthrow the Egyptian government?

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They did and where able to, but the people of Egypt kicked them out for corruption

[–] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no? the Muslim brotherhood was democratically elected then the MILITARY kicked them out. The same military dictatorship that's still on today.

Let the fascists fight then.

[–] Cockmaster6000@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And why won't Israel take them?

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Belligerents hiding among the Gazan population who have been attacking Israeli civilians, among other reasons.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe because they want to kill each other and there's nothing that seems it would stop this until one side is dead?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel was established as a Jewish ethnostate. Accepting any Muslims, Christians, or secular people into its land would make this ethnostate weaker. It's that simple.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

Israel was established as a Jewish ethnostate.

20% of Israel's citizens are Arabs.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is a well-documented plan for the permanent eviction of every last resident of Gaza - A "final solution", if you will:

  1. Pay Egypt to accept the population of Gaza in the Sinai desert.
  2. Bomb, maim, and kill every last non-Israeli in the Gaza strip who doesn't leave.
  3. Annex the strip over a few years claiming it's "helping rebuild".
  4. Annex a strip of the Sinai desert to prevent Palestinians from approaching Gaza.
  5. Return settlers to Gaza, and claim victory.