Bill I agree with many of the points that you make in your excellent historical overview. However, as someone who wrote a book on Egypt (that Nasser banned), I do not believe that Egypt seeks to prevent Gazans from settling in Egypt because of fear of Hamas.
I visited a large Palestinian refugee camp in Egyptian Gaza in 1953. The refugees…
Bill I agree with many of the points that you make in your excellent historical overview. However, as someone who wrote a book on Egypt (that Nasser banned), I do not believe that Egypt seeks to prevent Gazans from settling in Egypt because of fear of Hamas.
I visited a large Palestinian refugee camp in Egyptian Gaza in 1953. The refugees were housed in temporary tents. Egypt, with a population of 22 million strongly opposed accepting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Now that Egypt has 100,000,000 citizens in a poor country, its opposition to the intrusion of a million Palestinians is even greater. I do not envisage that sending Palestinians into Egypt will ever be an ‘amelioration’ of the current situation.
Bill I agree with many of the points that you make in your excellent historical overview. However, as someone who wrote a book on Egypt (that Nasser banned), I do not believe that Egypt seeks to prevent Gazans from settling in Egypt because of fear of Hamas.
I visited a large Palestinian refugee camp in Egyptian Gaza in 1953. The refugees were housed in temporary tents. Egypt, with a population of 22 million strongly opposed accepting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Now that Egypt has 100,000,000 citizens in a poor country, its opposition to the intrusion of a million Palestinians is even greater. I do not envisage that sending Palestinians into Egypt will ever be an ‘amelioration’ of the current situation.