Several Israeli politicians, analysts, some of them who served as personal advisors to Benjamin Netanyahu, have, in the open and in secret, called for the eviction of Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai, and sometimes, as far away as the mainland of Egypt.
This is not a new thing, in 2010, to be specific, October, an audio recording of Mubarak with his cabinet was leaked, most likely by the Egyptian state itself, where Mubarak detailed a meeting he had with Netanyahu, where Netanyahu vaguely suggested the idea of displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to “someplace else”, when Mubarak asked him where exactly, Netanyahu waved his hand over the Sinai without a comment, Mubarak then said he told him “It is not going to happen”, and proceeded to cut his meeting short.
◾️So we know this was discussed as far back as 2010.
In 2008, Hamas blew up several gaps in the Egyptian-Gaza border, and over 1.5 million Palestinians went to the Egyptian border, with at least 200-300 thousand intending to stay in Sinai, they were then properly hunted down and evicted back to Gaza, with coordination of Hamas, over three months, it seems Netanyahu got the idea of the 2010 meeting in 2008, as 300K Palestinians were a very sizeable part of the population.
Besides the obvious fact that the Palestinian cause was at danger at the time, the 2008 breach allowed for a massive upwards of smuggling, terrorism, and so on, but what most importantly irked Mubarak was the fact that the Egyptian economy took a devastating blow – tens of millions of fake US dollars were added into the circulation during that time from Gaza.
◾️So we know for a fact that Egypt will not allow the eviction of Palestinians from Gaza due to, 1) The Palestinian Cause requiring Palestinians to stay in their land, and this is agreed by all sides, 2) The potential political and economic repercussions of a massive ethnic cleansing from Gaza.
◾️On the other hand, the head of the Palestinian Authority, the current Egyptian President, and several European leaders stated that Morsi, the former Egyptian president who was overthrown in a revolution in 2013, stated that he was willing to house the Palestinians from Gaza and establish a Greater Gaza stretching from Al-Arish to Gaza proper, this plan was approved by Israel and Europe, however, it did not come to fruition.
◾️Finally, the president that came after him, Sisi, then made a complete ban on owning land from non-Egyptians in the Sinai, forced Hamas to purge itself from the Muslim Brotherhood. Cooperation between the two was established again at the full level after 2017, again, all sides agreed that an ethnic displacement of Palestinians into Sinai will never happen, this is why the PA and Hamas rejected Morsi’s proposal.
In Conclusion, The People of Gaza will live, grow old, and die on their Palestinian lands, and this reality will not change no matter what.
On a different note,
There are reports that Israel is proposing to write off a significant portion of Egypt’s international debts through the World Bank to entice Egypt to open the borders and allow the displacement of Palestinians to Sinai.
Genuine question, did Israel just admit that they, a Jewish state, control the International Financial System, a theory which was considered anti-Semitic for literally decades?
I mean, we all knew it, but I never expected them to be honest about it, they are REALLY desparate and are trying everything on Egypt.
Egypt, for the sake of its own morals, must NOT accept this deal.
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There are also strong economic reasons why Israel wants to eliminate the Palestinians from Gaza – gas of course.
But it is deeper than than that. Israel opens these gas concessions, some in disputed territory, to outside investors, and not just for financial and technical reasons, but to bind investors into its Zionist project and engage them as lobbyists.
Here are some headlines (a bit older but still relevant):
Israel awards gas exploration licenses to ENI, BP and 4 others
The unrealized potential of Palestinian oil and gas reserves
Israel grants Golan Heights oil license
