Why borders are closed for Palestinian refugees

Many successfully fled despite Hamas preventing them from doing so. As I write this, more than a million Palestinians have set up camp in southern Gaza, hoping that the Egyptian government would accept them as refugees.

It will be recalled that Lebanon agreed to accept Palestinian refugees following the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 and the Six-Day War of 1967. Lebanon was a model country in the gulf back then. They had a functioning democracy with open borders, open minds and a strong economy built on financial services. About a third of the Lebanese population were Christians and they lived in relative peace with their Muslim countrymen. Beirut was known as the Paris of the east.

Radical Muslims in Europe and North America have resorted to murder, terror and anti-Semitic activities to show their support for Hamas following the Oct. 7 attacks. This has prompted numerous western governments to initiate a mass deportation of suspected Muslim radicals. Last Oct. 17, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched a defective rocket, which landed in a hospital parking lot. Hamas took advantage of the situation and blamed Israel for it. They exaggerated the casualty count to gain global sympathy. Hamas has been on a social media offensive portraying themselves and the Palestinian people as the victims in the war they started. Many of the videos of wounded civilians were determined as fake.

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