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Egypt Breaks International Law
by Eugene Kontorovich
Every major conflict in recent decades - from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the depredations of ISIS to the Russian invasion of Ukraine - has sent large groups of civilians streaming across borders, seeking refuge from the fighting.
Few people would say that civilians should be condemned to be trapped in conflict zones - until the current war in Gaza. (According to the Government of Egypt figures, more than 1.2 million Sudanese who arrived from Sudan since the outbreak of the conflict in April 2023. NO PROBLEMS!)
Egypt has sealed its border with Gaza to hundreds of thousands of civilians seeking safety. In explaining the decision, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that he will turn Gazans back at the border because their flight, while keeping them safe, would hurt the cause of Palestinian statehood.
Egypt’s clearest duty arises under the refugee convention of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which Egypt joined in 1980. That agreement provides a broad definition of a refugee: any person who “owing to external aggression, occupation, foreign domination, or events seriously disturbing public order” is “compelled to leave his place of habitual residence in order to seek refuge in another place outside his country.” (Note: Egypt also has a duty to keep its border open under the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention and its subsequent 1967 Protocol.)
Because Gazan civilians have refugee status under the OAU convention, Egypt is required to use absolute best efforts to “receive” them and “secure” their safe settlement in Egypt or elsewhere. The OAU convention is crystal clear that Egypt cannot subject Gazans to “rejection at the frontier, return or expulsion” if it would have the effect of forcing civilians back to a war-torn Gaza. Indeed, the African Union, the OAU’s successor organization, stated in 2022 that “all people have the right to cross international borders during conflict.” That there might be hundreds of thousands of Gazan refugees seeking asylum provides no excuse to Egypt.
Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak
More than 2 million Afghani refugees have been expelled by Pakistan and Iran recently. There are NO condemnations, protests, or demonstrations by any ‘human rights’ groups, NGOs, or governments. NO special meeting and resolutions adopted by the UNGA. At the same time, while Israel is conducting a defensive war, after it was attacked by Palestinian terrorists, NO Gazans are allowed to leave the war zone. Over 70% of Gazans are registered as refugees. Why is it that they are not allowed to be transferred from a war zone, to save their lives? Why the ‘Ugly Nazi’ is letting Egypt to violate two international refugee agreements it signed, by deliberately keeping ‘innocent’ civilians in Gaza?
Orthodox Men Killed Two Terrorists
At least five people have been killed and 12 people injured in a shooting at Ramot Junction on the outskirts of Jerusalem by two attackers. Both terrorists were killed by two Haredi men - one a soldier serving as a platoon commander in the IDF’s Hasmonean Brigade and the other an armed civilian who opened fire with his grandfather’s pistol.
Vatican's non-Spiritual 2-State Solution
The Vatican issued an unusually, in spite of its tradition of diplomatic neutrality throughout the war, detailed statement following Pope Leo XIV meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Pope Leo XIV and his top diplomats told Israel’s president that a two-state solution was the “only way out of the war.” Herzog’s office had initially said the audience came at Leo’s invitation, but the Vatican disputed that. (The Vatican gives ‘spiritual’ support for an Islamist state - 'Palestine'. It will control Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. No Christians will be allowed to visit! Jews left Gaza in 2005. Result: Hamas took 251 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023, in a heinous terrorist attack that also killed about 1,200 people.)
Another Hamas Emotional Blackmail Spin
Israel has rejected a statement from Hamas saying the armed group is ready for a "comprehensive deal" to end the Gaza war and free all its hostages. "This is more spin by Hamas that has nothing new," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said. The war would end only once the 48 hostages - 20 of whom are believed to be alive - were released, Hamas was disarmed, Gaza was demilitarised, and Israel had security control. Hamas reiterated its call for a deal that would see hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, Israeli forces withdraw, border crossings reopened, and the start of reconstruction.
Enemy of Israel not Welcome
French President Emmanuel Macron requested to make a snap visit to Israel, but the request was rejected, with a condition attached. Macron must retract his intention to recognize a Palestinian state in order to visit Israel. Macron reportedly refused. An Israeli source quoted in the report said, “We won’t let Macron play both sides.”
“With a Friend Like this...”
A senior United Arab Emirates diplomatic official warned that if Israel were to pursue official annexation of Judea and Samaria, the Gulf kingdom would withdraw from the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements. (Unfortunately, Israel has too many 'conditional' friends.)
'Experts' of Genocide Scholars Group
Pro-Israel activists joined the International Association of Genocide Scholars days after the group accused Israel of genocide, highlighting the fact that non-scholars can join the group. The group's announcement garnered widespread media coverage that portrayed the group as a prestigious body of experts. Any 'expert' can join the group by paying as little as $30. The group’s website says it is open to individuals including activists, artists, and scholars in unrelated fields, such as film and literature.
Are Israeli Arabs an Enemy Within?
The Israel Police and Shin Bet warned that Israeli Arabs are increasingly involved in terrorism. "The General Security Service and the Israel Police view very seriously any involvement of Israeli citizens in activities that endanger the security of the state, and will continue to take the measures at their disposal to thwart any threat and act to bring all those involved to justice," the two organizations said. (Expelled them after prison, with NO right to return to Israel.)
Hamas Prevents Evacuation from Gaza City
Hamas is working hard to block Palestinian civilians from evacuating from Gaza City, in northern Gaza, despite the IDF's two-week effort to encourage them to leave. Hamas wants to keep as many civilians as possible in Gaza City, both to serve directly as human shields from IDF attacks and also to place more diplomatic pressure, (which international Jew-haters are only happy to provide).
Rewriting the Meaning of Genocide
The International Association of Genocide Scholars announced that it had passed a resolution determining that Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza, according to international law. Some of those conclusions were based on reinterpretations of the legal definition of genocide, and not the established reading of the law. The Genocide Convention, a 1948 UN agreement, defined genocide as the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such.” (Israel could do it in less than a week after the 7/10 Hamas terrorist attack. Instead, more than 900 IDF soldiers were killed in Gaza since because the life of any human is a sacred to Jews!)
Quote of the Week:
"We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be." - US President Donald Trump – Beyond freeing the hostages, Israel has to free Gaza from enemy occupation and to annex it.
European Duplicity of Two-State Solution
by Sheri Oz
In recent months, France, the UK, Spain, Ireland, Norway, and Slovenia have all formally recognized a "Palestinian state". Their declarations made headlines and prompted Israeli diplomatic protests. Yet nothing changed on the ground.
The spectacle raises a blunt question: why do certain European countries continue to pretend the two-state solution still exists?
Recognition is a symbolic gesture with no policy consequences. Former EU envoy Susanna Terstal admitted as much: “The two-state solution remains the only viable option… but it’s getting harder and harder with the passing of time.”
Behind the performance lies a deeper truth: most European leaders do not want to see a Palestinian Arab state emerge. They fear the consequences.
Any sovereign state could quickly come under Hamas or Iranian influence. European intelligence services know that that would mean more terrorism.
The EU Parliament itself has calculated the cost of terrorism since 2004 at €185 billion in lost GDP and €5.6 billion in lives and damage. With asylum systems already overwhelmed and anti-migrant parties rising, the political cost of another “Gaza” spilling into Europe is unthinkable.
The upcoming UN vote promises to be another spectacle that will only succeed in increasing the anti-Semitic attacks against Jews and the one Jewish state. That small point on the map comprises 0.3% of the Middle East land area that they like to accuse of expansionism and genocide against her neighbours. (It is all because the twisted, traditional European anti-Semitic sense of morality. morality. The two-state solution is the first step towards their final ‘Palestinian’ one-state solution!)
