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Gaza: Egypt warns against fighting in Rafah as Blinken visits
2024-02-07
[AFRICANEWS] U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
pressed ahead with a diplomatic tour of the Middle East on Tuesday, meeting Egyptian leaders as part of his efforts to secure a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
war in exchange for the release of hostages.

Blinken's visit also comes amid growing concerns in Egypt about Israel's stated intentions to expand the combat in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
to areas on the Egyptian border that are crammed with displaced Paleostinians.

Israel's defense minister has said Israel's offensive will eventually reach the town of Rafah, on the Egyptian border, where more than half of Gaza's 2.3 million people have sought refuge and are now living in increasingly miserable conditions.

U.N. humanitarian monitors said Tuesday that Israeli evacuation orders now cover two-thirds of Gaza's territory, driving thousands more people every day toward the border areas.

Egypt has warned that an Israeli deployment along the border would threaten the peace treaty the two countries signed over four decades ago. Egypt fears an expansion of combat to the Rafah area could push terrified Paleostinian civilians across the border, a scenario Egypt has said it is determined to prevent.

Blinken, who was meeting Tuesday with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, has said repeatedly that Paleostinians must not be forced out of Gaza.

Posted by:Fred

#6  no one wants the refugees.
Posted by: Chesney Sleting4519   2024-02-07 17:52  

#5  He's pretty much crushed Mo Bruderbund V 1.0, why would he want Paleo Mo Bruderbund V 2.0?

Because, if he takes them in, Israel has no (weighty enough) reason to destroy his regime.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-02-07 11:11  

#4  ^ He's pretty much crushed Mo Bruderbund V 1.0, why would he want Paleo Mo Bruderbund V 2.0?
Posted by: Frank G   2024-02-07 09:52  

#3  ^ He does, Biden just hasn't met his price.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic   2024-02-07 09:07  

#2  El Sisi doesn't grasp that the World have changed on Oct 7th.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-02-07 00:48  

#1  Egypt perhaps also fears that the IDF will uncover tunnels between Gaza and Egypt (Egypt denies such tunnels exist).
Posted by: lord garth   2024-02-07 00:19  

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