Egypt is bolstering its forces along its shared border with Gaza ahead of the IDF’s planned offensive to capture Gaza City due to concerns that the mass evacuation of Palestinians from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south will lead to chaos along the border, according to Arabic and Hebrew media reports.
Close to a million civilians, or almost half of the Strip’s population, have been residing in Gaza City, many of whom have started evacuating southward in anticipation of Israel’s offensive, although no official evacuation warnings have been issued yet.
Egyptian officials are concerned that this mass evacuation of Gaza City’s residents could lead to Palestinians fleeing over the border to Egypt, reports say.
As such, Arabic-language media say some 40,000 Egyptian soldiers are now deployed in the northern Sinai area, ready to man the 12-kilometer (7.5-mile) border that separates it from the Gaza Strip.
An unnamed Egyptian official tells the London-based Qatari outlet Al-Araby Al Jadeed that Cairo views the possible outpouring of Gazans into Egypt as a potential national security threat, which would create a humanitarian and security crisis in the Sinai region.
Waikanae Watch once again wrings its hands because Egypt won’t assist in Israel’s ethnic cleansing programme by taking in millions of Palestinian refugees. Purely because the Palestinians are so awful, not of course because Egypt is already very crowded, and because most of the population don’t want to be complicit in ethnic cleansing.
So Israel will have to settle for genocide, oh well, what can you do?
It just might be because Gazans have become so radicalised by Hamas that they will join up with the banned Muslim Brotherhood elements in Egypt and conduct a campaign of insurrection against the El Sisi government.
No proof that Gazans as a whole are “radicalised”. Plenty of evidence that Israeli society is sick beyond belief. “65% of Israelis [including the atheists] Agree that God’s Command to Exterminate Amalek Applies to Palestinians, 80% for Ethnic Cleansing”. https://www.worldatlarge.news/2025/05/26/65-of-israelis-agree-that-gods-commandment-to-exterminate-amalek-applies-to-palestinians-80-for-ethnic-cleansing/
Israelis openly talk about genocide with approval, all the time. Norman Finkelstein. https://www.facebook.com/reel/645640638079810
Messages out of the West that they are special, Chosen, and therefore can murder and dispossess at will, cannot help. Apparently it’s all in the Bible: no matter that Israel was founded by Ashkenazis from Eastern Europe, with no historic, genetic or cultural links to the region.
You’re obsessed with assumptions about those who disagree with all your assumptions. If would be good if it could be diminished.
It would be nice to think that not all of Waikanae Watch’s editorial team were rabid holocaust-enabling Zionists. However, WW has been completely one-eyed about the issue. Aside from the recurring, and breathtakingly immoral, suggestion that ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make room for Europeans (with no historic, genetic or cultural links to the region) would be great if neighours could just be persuaded to take them,
WW has made no attempt to inform readers of new information about October 7, ie the lack of proof for most/all of the accusations levelled at Hamas (mass rape, beheaded or baked babies, etc); the fact (known from the outset) that it took 6 hours for troops to be sent to the scene, revelations from IDF that they were pulled back from the border that morning; acknowledgements that the IDF killed its own, and in fact given the nature of the deaths, such as the shelled cars, were most likely responsible for almost all civilian deaths.
WW has not reported on the sick hunger games being played out in Gaza.
WW while condemning the ISIS government in Damascus, refuses to acknowledge its link with Israel, the funding of ISIS and clones, Netanyahu visiting them in hospital on the Golan, the fact that ISIS never, ever attacked Israel, the fact that smashing up Syria so Israel could get some of the bits was a reason for the war on Syria.
Etc
No as we responded to you several times the 7 in our editorial team are not “rabid holocaust-enabling Zionists” and fervently want peace and tolerance everywhere. We’ll have more to say about your favorite subject soon, but just to make a short response to all the above:
1. Every day about 40 articles appear in the inbox or via messenger and of them priority goes to local ones, then those where the Leftist Legacy Media present a distorted picture of the true situation or ignore for their ideology. The Hamas v. Israel topic is one where the LLM are reasonably balanced because while they love Muslims they don’t want to be accused of being anti-Jewish
2. If people want a daily condemnation of Israel, they can read Catlin Johnstone’s rants.
3. Free Palestine” for Hamas at least means “Free Palestine of Jews” and they don’t want Alphabet people either. We can’t support that.
4. Nato is a far bigger scourge. than that of a 10-decade old ethnic conflict in a piece of land the size of the Canterbury province.
I’m reminded of when I expressed scepticism of the covid narrative, and I got, “you’ve been listening to Trump! You’ve been listening to Billy Te Kahika!” Of course I get advice on things medical from Trump and Billy TK ….
So according to WW, people who want information about Palestine just read Caitlin Johnson and al Jazeera, or Hamas releases. Not Haaretz or Ilan Pappe, or IDF releases, or ISF whistleblowers, or the statements of former Israeli prime ministers.
These people with their traditions, beliefs and behaviours show that they would be difficult to place anywhere as they believe they can act any way they want. Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon will not take any more Palestinians because quite apart from the economic considerations they don’t appear to mix well in muslim majority countries, let alone Western countries.
I doubt old foaming at the mouth Swarbrick would take any of them in and would use the hackneyed phrase of the left, “I would if I could, but I just don’t have the room right now.”
Once any potential guests from that part of the world learned of her lesbian leanings she might get to experience some of their old time religion. Unfortunately she is naive beyond belief and believes in giving great charity with other taxpayers’ money to whatever cause du jour she decides to espouse.
“they don’t appear to mix well in muslim majority countries ….” Your evidence for this?
Palestinians myself and others have met in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan all had children at university. So maybe their culture of education, respect for heritage etc, would not fit with New Zealand culture.