While smaller than its sister city of the Gaza Strip side of the border, Rafah, Egypt has long been an important city in the northern portion of the Sinai Peninsula, of economic and strategic import.
Today, Egypt began displacing the residents of Rafah with a plan to “eradicate” the entire city, expelling thousands of families and demolition every last home as part of a plan to create a 2 km “buffer zone” between Sinai and the Gaza Strip.
Egypt demolished significant numbers of homes back in October to create a 500 meter buffer, but has since decided to expand that to encompass materially the entire city. They have claimed Sinai rebels, who have resisted the junta since the 2013 coup, are using Gaza to resupply.
Sinai Government Abdel Fattah Harhour denied that the plan amounted to the destruction of Rafah, claiming Egypt would build a “new Rafah” a couple kilometers west of the old one. Whether anyone will choose to live there, with policy established that anything near the border might get wiped out for dubious military reasons, remains to be seen.
Great news! With this and the Gaza embargo intact, Hamas will slowly waste all their residual ammo, until they resort to blade and axe once more.
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Dog, bark as you must or will. It is obvious to all observant eyes that unless Israel changes it's slaughter of innocents, theft of land, and it's blind brutality, it will never live in peace. Subjugated people, throughout history have, sooner or later triumphed. Your seeming lust for Palestinian blood reflects your inhumanity and lack of any sense of justice.
Give the military control of a thing — All turns deadly, dictatorial and stupid
At the tender age of 17, suddenly there I was pulling KP duty, washing the dirty dishes of officers so that they could be treated like royalty and wondering why adults ever allowed such stupidity to continue?
For in time of war when it’s kill or be killed, then the organized will of the people might could be so self-justified and stupid as to put the military in charge, but to give the military complete control of government in time of peace, this has to be the height of stupidity — or the ultimate conclusion of a greed driven society.
Comes now a realization that if the people of Egypt were so in love with greed and to the point that everyone strived to be enriched upon the misery of a lower class, then quite natural would it be for the educated upper half of society to use poverty as a tool to enslave the ignorant lower half. Then if the greed of the upper half became so great that the laboring-class lower half of Egypt received less then $3 a day for their labors, then if a rebellion became so great that a police state could not kill enough laboring men to reestablish slavery, then quite natural would it be to use the mass murder ability of the military.
And so it is, and so it has always been in every nation on earth, be it a dictatorship or democracy, since the beginning of civilization, the higher achieving upper half hoarding all the land, wealth and power.
Don't be fooled by facades of "democracy". Where there is a standing military, it is always in charge – since they're the ones with the most guns. Regarding who is in control, one needs to ask two questions:
1. Will the enlisted soldiers obey orders?
2. Who are the officer corps loyal to?
During the Vietnam War disaster, soldiers refused to obey, and even killed officers. That would never happen now. The machine has used the last 50 years to perfect its methods of raising obedient subjects, starting practically from birth. Today's soldiers will obey, just like the police.
I wish I had some insight into who the officer corps are loyal to. We know the top layer of generals are loyal to the war industries, but they probably have limited control over their own bureaucracy. The mid-level officers are the key – who will they obey?
Most Egyptians live on much less than $3 a day.The 2013 coup happened to keep it that way,and that's the Egyptian "Oligarchs " agitated for over a year before and its biggest supporters today.
With friends like Egyptian president and his army who needs enemy.
Egypt's army guards Israel against Hamas.
Egypt is now just as bad as Israel. They're forcing people out of Rafah. Israel forces Palestinians out of their homes to make way for Israeli settlers.
WITFF?
Has there ever been any population more squeezed, vilified and terrorized than those of Gaza?