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As of a week ago, an estimated 374,000 people had fled Lebanon to Syria. That doesn't include the thousands that fled by plane over the last few weeks.
It is natural for people to want to flee a war zone. The Lebanese know how thoroughly their country had been hijacked by Hezbollah, how embedded Hezbollah is in many of their neighborhoods, how much Hezbollah has been using them as human shields in its quest to entrench and strengthen itself for the sole purpose of an eventual war to destroy Israel. The UNHCR is doing what it can to help the refugees in Syria.
Yet over the past year the exact same scenario occurred in Gaza. A similar terrorist group had taken over an entire area filled with civilians, hijacked it for the sole purpose of using it as a launching pad to destroy the Jewish state, and cynically used those civilians to be human shields.
Except in Gaza, there was no refugee agency helping those fleeing. Because except for a fortunate few who could pay exorbitant bribes to Egyptian middlemen, Gazans couldn't escape their war zone created by Hamas.
Arab states, instead of welcoming them, insisted that they did not want any Gazans to take refuge there. The world shrugged - they have the right to refuse who enters their borders, right? And besides, this was for the Palestinians' own good, because if they fled, who says they would ever be allowed to return?
No one asked the Palestinians what they wanted to do, and no one gave them a choice. Gazans were desperate to flee, tens of thousands of them turning to social media to raise money to bribe the Egyptians to allow them to enter.
When Egypt built a wall specifically to stop Gazans from having the option of fleeing a war zone, there was not one negative word from Amnesty or Human Rights Watch.
Egypt's refusal to allow Gazans into its country is almost certainly a direct violation of the 1969 Organization of African Unity Refugee Convention which Egypt had signed.
(full article online)
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elderofziyon.blogspot.com
It is natural for people to want to flee a war zone. The Lebanese know how thoroughly their country had been hijacked by Hezbollah, how embedded Hezbollah is in many of their neighborhoods, how much Hezbollah has been using them as human shields in its quest to entrench and strengthen itself for the sole purpose of an eventual war to destroy Israel. The UNHCR is doing what it can to help the refugees in Syria.
Yet over the past year the exact same scenario occurred in Gaza. A similar terrorist group had taken over an entire area filled with civilians, hijacked it for the sole purpose of using it as a launching pad to destroy the Jewish state, and cynically used those civilians to be human shields.
Except in Gaza, there was no refugee agency helping those fleeing. Because except for a fortunate few who could pay exorbitant bribes to Egyptian middlemen, Gazans couldn't escape their war zone created by Hamas.
Arab states, instead of welcoming them, insisted that they did not want any Gazans to take refuge there. The world shrugged - they have the right to refuse who enters their borders, right? And besides, this was for the Palestinians' own good, because if they fled, who says they would ever be allowed to return?
No one asked the Palestinians what they wanted to do, and no one gave them a choice. Gazans were desperate to flee, tens of thousands of them turning to social media to raise money to bribe the Egyptians to allow them to enter.
When Egypt built a wall specifically to stop Gazans from having the option of fleeing a war zone, there was not one negative word from Amnesty or Human Rights Watch.
Egypt's refusal to allow Gazans into its country is almost certainly a direct violation of the 1969 Organization of African Unity Refugee Convention which Egypt had signed.
(full article online)
Lebanon shows us how the world betrayed Gaza by insisting no Palestinians could flee to safety
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