The Native Iowan

Still aiming to figure out why… Why the Muslim neighbours of Palestine are reluctant, resistant to “help” the people stuck in Palestine. Those same poor souls that are locked behind fences by the evil Zionists. Those same poor souls being bombed and killed as they take refuge in hospitals and schools….

I have been trolling for words about this. There is a lot to read but little of real pertinence that explains to me why, how and when… why are Palestine’s neighbours not flocking to succour those poor souls suffering what is deemed to be A Genocide? How come the nearby kin folk of those held captive on their own land don’t rush in and assist? When can those suffering expect some assistance by those close at hand?

This is a picture of the barrier between Gaza and Egypt:

The best I can do is research the historical context herein:

Here’s one discussion: https://www.mideastjournal.org/post/here-s-why-arab-countries-won-t-take-refugees-from-gaza

What I see:

Arab countries refuse to accept refugees
Jordan’s King Abdullah announced immediately after the October 7 attacks that Jordan and Egypt would not accept refugees from Gaza. “That is a red line,” he said.

Similarly, Turkey and Qatar, both state sponsors of Hamas, are refusing to take refugees even as both countries express support for the Palestinians. Algeria, Kuwait, and Malaysia are openly siding with Hamas but have not said they would admit refugees.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi made his toughest remarks yet on the war about Palestinian refugees from Gaza, saying Israel’s military campaign was not just aimed at fighting Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, “but also an attempt to push the civilian inhabitants to … migrate to Egypt.”

And…

Arab hesitancy to accept Palestinians from Gaza
Displacement has been a major theme of Palestinian history. In the 1948 Israeli Independence War, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled from what is now Israel. Palestinians refer to the event as the Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe.” In the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 300,000 more Palestinians fled, mostly into Jordan. The refugees and their descendants now number nearly 6 million, most living in camps and communities in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The diaspora has spread further, with many refugees building lives in the Gulf countries or the West.

Egypt fears history will repeat itself, and a large Palestinian refugee population from Gaza will end up staying for good. Their refusal is rooted in fear that Israel wants to force a permanent expulsion of Palestinians into their countries and nullify Palestinian demands for statehood. El-Sissi also said a mass exodus would risk bringing militants into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, from where they might launch attacks on Israel, endangering the two countries’ 40-year-old peace treaty.

Jordan was one of the countries to receive large numbers of Palestinian refugees when at least 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes around Israel’s foundation in 1948.

Jordan, which clashed with the PLO and expelled it under similar circumstances in 1970, already hosts more than 2 million Palestinian refugees, the majority of whom have been granted citizenship. Israeli ultranationalists have long suggested that Jordan be considered a Palestinian state so that Israel can keep the West Bank, which they view as the biblical heartland of the Jewish people. Jordan’s monarchy has vehemently rejected that scenario.

There are many such discussions online. I am not the only one trying to figger this all out…

More later