It isn't Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you
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Egypt has banned all Palestinians from entering the country, warning International flights carrying Palestinian passengers that they will not be allowed to land in Cairo
Thousands of Palestinians are now stranded abroad, many in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, unable to return to Gaza because Egypt won’t let them in. Come again, next week,” said the man sitting behind a desk piled with paperwork. This was my fifth time hearing these words, from an official in at the Egyptian embassy in Amman.
Global Research(h/t Susan K) I asked if there was any hope of an opening for the hundreds of Palestinians from Gaza stranded in Jordan, but he said he could not promise anything. On an earlier visit, the day after the Egyptian army’s 3 July ouster of President Muhammad Morsi, the same employee told me that the delay in issuing visas was due to the “civil disobedience” that accompanied the 30 June mass protests in Egypt. He said that processing would speed up in coming days, but it never did.
For more than a week since the military takeover, theRafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza has been closed, except for brief periods. Palestinians, even with valid visas for Egypt, have been deported from Cairo airport.
A relative of mine from Turkey was told that Egypt would fine Turkish Airlines €5,000 ($6,500) for every Palestinian brought to Cairo in defiance of the ban. And a friend of his, he told me, arrived in Cairo and was deported back to Cyprus, but was lucky enough to be given a courtesy ticket. The result of all this is that thousands of Palestinians are stranded abroad, unable to return to Gaza, and many are running out of money. Almost a thousand pilgrims from Gaza are stuck in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Dozens more were stuck in Cairo airport’s deportation room — they were unlucky enough to have arrived before the ban on Palestinian passengers boarding flights for Cairo, but after the Rafah crossing was closed, and so they were locked up. Other Palestinians have been tweeting about their ordeal being held in the deportation room at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
Security concerns are the stated reason reported by the Egyptian media for these restrictions, but the Palestinians held up all over the world know a different story. My own story illustrates some of the obstacles facing Palestinians trying to get home. As a medical student, I traveled to Amman, Jordan for a one-month long clinical course. I missed my homeward flight to Cairo, which was booked for 7 July, and I have also exceeded my planned expenses.
But the bigger problem remains the absence of a clear vision or even hope in the near future of when or how to get back to Gaza.
Figuring out how to get home is not easy and is influenced by many factors: the Jordanian permit to stay which is about to end; the state of Rafah crossing, which is managed on a daily basis with an unclear policy; the ban on Palestinians in the Egyptian airports; and the stalling and delays that hinder Palestinians from obtaining visas at Egyptian embassies.
The combination of airport bans and visa delays makes for another problem: visas are valid for only two weeks. Those with valid visas will soon have to apply for new ones. Even if embassies start issuing them again, the paperwork takes two weeks on average to complete, which could lead to a whole new episode of waiting.
As thousands of others face similar dilemmas, thousands of days and dollars are lost while officials take their time trying to solve the problem.
Or maybe they are not trying to solve it. Who knows! After all, the media are too busy with what’s going on in Cairo (and Trayvon Martin) and other capitals to shed light on this unnecessary suffering.
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Jsays
Palestine chose terrorists as their overlord….. So only logical to treat them as terrorists. Even that innocent looking little girl has been indoctrinated to hate Israel and kiss the butt of moha mad. Palestine is a mockery to the world and should be isolated as the home of terrorists.
wow as a christian myself,iam totally against this discrimination against these muslims.if you follow the bible and doubt any of you guys do.you would realise that it say love your fellow beings as they are a creation of i(Jesus Christ) and show your them your good actions so they can change their ways.Israel are a bunch of war criminal whether you want to believe it or not.they used phosphorus bomb against palestinian civilians,who defend themselfs with rocks.thats is definitely fair,they are labelled heroes while the victims are labelled as “terrorist”.I guess the term terrorist is just reserved for muslims.how about Andreis Breviek isnt he a terrorist i assume so but hes being called a mad man.Does this mean christians are terrorist 2,i certainly iam not.
MB, Jesus would not have said that if muslims had been around when he was alive. Considering you are in Australia, and have your own growing problems with the muslim scum, don’t post here anymore. You are ignorant.
susan k apologies – i did not see the comment of trayvon in the story,ok
bonni dont know why you put trayvon in here but seeing as you did . here is my little song for you
Must be Whiner Week all over the world. Too bad we can’t ship the disappointed Lynch George Zimmerman crowd — Holder, the POS, and all — over there to join their Fakestinian counterparts. They can hold grievance riot contests at the airports to pass the time.
The MERS virus does sound promising if the Egyptians can hold them off long enough for it to make itself useful.
No one in the Muslim world wants them, what does that tell you! Sisi is one smart guy, inside of one week he has destroyed most of the tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt and won’t let ANY Palestinians into Egypt. He knows their true intent.
I really like BNI’s annotations and witty sarcasm injected into story text. Her reference to the media preoccupation with Trayvon Martin was perfectly inserted.
I was also blessed by the casual statement about the POS not needing an excuse.
Again the Egyptians prove smarter than us. They know palestinians are nothing but trouble. Sisi at least has the backbone to not kiss their ass, like Israel does.
Please read Bonni’s response to Silverio Facundo. Israel is forced to walk on egg shells because of global anti-Jew bias.
Bonni is a world class lady and she is not quick to anger when people make negative comments against Israel out of ignorance. Always keep in mind she is Jewish and try to be sensitive to her feelings.
actually burbsmom is not wrong. our leaders in israel do exactly what she said.we the people are disgusted with them and their cowardice.but they do bend over backwards ,they send trucks to gaza with supplies when rockets are falling on us. and sent supplies too when egypt closed the borders. how sick is that
the israelis are so so so so so fed up with this insanity -the injured syrians we are treating in our hospital, even god does not know why, have cost us more than 3 million shekels and prices here are going up and up. and no government department wants to pay for it.
Geez!! You guys clearly don’t get it! This is a part of the global jihad. Strand the Fakestinians in Mecca long enough to catch that deadly virus going around and then ship them all back to wage biological warfare jihad against the evil Jooooos! I am kidding of course, but would you put it past them to try?
With the military coup/mass demonstrations against a muslim theocratic govt, there is a huge crackdown on the m.brotherhood in Egypt, the destruction of most of the smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza, no more support for hamas, and “poor, starving palestinians” are stranded by their fellow arabs.
As muslims are prone to really wild conspiracy theories about Jews, you could see how they could blame Israel for causing all this mayhem as part of a diabolical plan to rule the world. I guess the Mossad is doing their job quite well.
This is awesome! I think Egypt is like 95% muslim too. Hopefully most of the muslims aren’t really ‘muslims’, just decent/smart people. But seriously, they’re lucky. They have the first election in years and they vote the MB in… How stupid is that? They really are lucky getting a second chance. The Egyptian ARMY is behind common sense this time though. Hopefully a happy future…
Sorry Charles but Canada is a NO-NO. The only refugees we now accept are persecuted religious minorities.
A few weeks ago, our Immigration Minister managed to get a 14-yr old Christian Paki girl out of Pakistan that had been arrested on blasphemy charges. She is now in Canada as a refugee. Her and her family. Christians.
BNI , Don’t get too excited …brotha obama will most likely use this as an excvuse and start importing more palestnians as refugees who will go on to do more “workplace violence” like Hassan (SOA) the palestininan Ford hood jihadi.
Is one arsehole’s worth of sinislam foetidity and tinhattery. Certainly quote them for a laugh, but never believe anything they say, unless corroborated by a REAL trust-able source.
And note the benign neutral sounding name. Can you say antisemite?
No country wants these treacherous, bloodthirsty (even by Muslim standards) lazy, whining bums always ready to join any radical cause and bloody riot. The bunch of con artists, professional “victims and sufferers”, milking the stupid West for years. All they do is demonstrating, rioting and celebrating acts of terror committed worldwide. Imagine if Israel pulled a stunt like this? UN resolutions, leftards’ demonstrations, a few flotillas in the sea, a dozen of Rachel Korys ready to be squashed for the Pali cause. Wait, and the Joooooooooooos will be blamed for this ban.
‘Palestinians’ are the descendants of immigrants who arrived in the region between 1850 and 1947. They are related to Arabs in the surrounding countries. The Palestine Mandate was divided into Transjordan for Arabs and the West Bank for Jews. If they don’t want to live in a modern pluralistic state, the ‘Palestinians’ should go to Jordan, learn a trade and get a job.
Saudi Arabia’s official discrimination against Jews is what is causing this airline problem.
life is not america ok .its far more complicated here in this part of the world and there are no simple answers. racist does not fit all sizes.
wow americans wake the hell up. you are not the centre of the world and no one here gives a donkeys about trayvon or any of the other american gangsters. they have american gangsters here sponsored by obama.
I find it amazing that so many poor, deprived residents of Gaza can afford such travel expenses. And the photographs haven’t showed even ONE person who looks like he’s starving!
Just asking, but aren’t Saudi and Jordan two of the muslim countries that wont allow repatriation of people who are so called Palestinians ?
And you can’t blame Egypt for not allowing the entrance of someone from a made up country. Next they’ll claim to be from Oz, Camelot, or Sand Nigaria. ……….. I know. My baaaaaaad !
oh but they love to whine and whine and whine, and now they have a reason to whine and whine and whine. he he he he
and the media has to keep quiet of course so a perfectly good opportunity to whine some more is lost .
whine on baby whine on
such music to my ears.
SF, if they did that they would get condemnation from the whole world. The EU just passed a law that disallows trade with Israel in any part that doesn’t fall within the 1949 borders.
Did you mean “1967 borders”? If they’re trying to push for 1948 or 1949 borders, that’s a true attack upon Israel’s very integrity as a country!!! [Israel then was NOT a contiguous country – did the British deliberately design it to be so in order that the Arabs would have an easier time to destroy it??]
It’s only one step then for them to openly deny Israel’s entire right to exist – it’s tantamount to openly siding with both the Communists AND the Nazis as well as the Moslems!!!
Boy oh boy, the totalitarians have triumphed in the EU, which now deserves to be disbanded every bit as much as the UN!!!
DEATH TO ISLAM – and ALL totalitarianism, period!!!
Maybe a large percentage are actually returning home to Palestine. Maybe they are coming to Egypt to Join with the Muslim Brotherhood and wage Jihad against the Egyptian Army and people. It’s better to leave them where they are until things be sorted out.
it’s that simple to you, they just some people who have kids and families, and they just wanna get back home…you and tpeople like you make me sick. so go F*** urself !
J says
Palestine chose terrorists as their overlord….. So only logical to treat them as terrorists. Even that innocent looking little girl has been indoctrinated to hate Israel and kiss the butt of moha mad. Palestine is a mockery to the world and should be isolated as the home of terrorists.
michele brown says
wow as a christian myself,iam totally against this discrimination against these muslims.if you follow the bible and doubt any of you guys do.you would realise that it say love your fellow beings as they are a creation of i(Jesus Christ) and show your them your good actions so they can change their ways.Israel are a bunch of war criminal whether you want to believe it or not.they used phosphorus bomb against palestinian civilians,who defend themselfs with rocks.thats is definitely fair,they are labelled heroes while the victims are labelled as “terrorist”.I guess the term terrorist is just reserved for muslims.how about Andreis Breviek isnt he a terrorist i assume so but hes being called a mad man.Does this mean christians are terrorist 2,i certainly iam not.
BareNakedIslam says
MB, Jesus would not have said that if muslims had been around when he was alive. Considering you are in Australia, and have your own growing problems with the muslim scum, don’t post here anymore. You are ignorant.
Muck fuslims says
Of course they can’t go to Palestine, the country doesn’t and never did exist!
ruth cohen says
susan k apologies – i did not see the comment of trayvon in the story,ok
bonni dont know why you put trayvon in here but seeing as you did . here is my little song for you
rave on
zim zim zimmerman
rave on about trayvon
BareNakedIslam says
Sorry Ruth, I removed most of your little ditty about trayvon because I don’t want that discussion here.
revereridesagain says
Must be Whiner Week all over the world. Too bad we can’t ship the disappointed Lynch George Zimmerman crowd — Holder, the POS, and all — over there to join their Fakestinian counterparts. They can hold grievance riot contests at the airports to pass the time.
The MERS virus does sound promising if the Egyptians can hold them off long enough for it to make itself useful.
Mrs. Pharaoh says
No one in the Muslim world wants them, what does that tell you! Sisi is one smart guy, inside of one week he has destroyed most of the tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt and won’t let ANY Palestinians into Egypt. He knows their true intent.
Uncle says
I really like BNI’s annotations and witty sarcasm injected into story text. Her reference to the media preoccupation with Trayvon Martin was perfectly inserted.
I was also blessed by the casual statement about the POS not needing an excuse.
burbsmom says
Again the Egyptians prove smarter than us. They know palestinians are nothing but trouble. Sisi at least has the backbone to not kiss their ass, like Israel does.
Uncle says
Please read Bonni’s response to Silverio Facundo. Israel is forced to walk on egg shells because of global anti-Jew bias.
Bonni is a world class lady and she is not quick to anger when people make negative comments against Israel out of ignorance. Always keep in mind she is Jewish and try to be sensitive to her feelings.
BareNakedIslam says
Thanks Uncle, but unnecessary. I don’t need people to be sensitive to my feelings. I can defend my positions. But thanks for having my back, sweetie.
ruth cohen says
actually burbsmom is not wrong. our leaders in israel do exactly what she said.we the people are disgusted with them and their cowardice.but they do bend over backwards ,they send trucks to gaza with supplies when rockets are falling on us. and sent supplies too when egypt closed the borders. how sick is that
the israelis are so so so so so fed up with this insanity -the injured syrians we are treating in our hospital, even god does not know why, have cost us more than 3 million shekels and prices here are going up and up. and no government department wants to pay for it.
BareNakedIslam says
Ruth, I understand that better than you know.
antimuslim says
ha!
no muslims allowed should be our new motto.
Runner 7500 says
It is sooooo sad 🙁
Lorrie says
Stay where you are!
JerryJ26 says
Maybe they can hook up with Snowden and get asylum in venezuela or Costa Rica.
Sonia says
This is great!
No Jizya says
Geez!! You guys clearly don’t get it! This is a part of the global jihad. Strand the Fakestinians in Mecca long enough to catch that deadly virus going around and then ship them all back to wage biological warfare jihad against the evil Jooooos! I am kidding of course, but would you put it past them to try?
BareNakedIslam says
NoJ, the thought of them getting the MERS virus is rather appealing. They wouldn’t have time to infect the Jews, MERS is quickly fatal. I hear.
Liz says
With the military coup/mass demonstrations against a muslim theocratic govt, there is a huge crackdown on the m.brotherhood in Egypt, the destruction of most of the smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza, no more support for hamas, and “poor, starving palestinians” are stranded by their fellow arabs.
As muslims are prone to really wild conspiracy theories about Jews, you could see how they could blame Israel for causing all this mayhem as part of a diabolical plan to rule the world. I guess the Mossad is doing their job quite well.
noonetinone says
Just remember, Israel is the apartheid state. OK, buddy.
HA!
foxmuldar says
Don’t get to happy, they could end up being brought here to America by our Muslim in chief.
Oh Hi There says
This is awesome! I think Egypt is like 95% muslim too. Hopefully most of the muslims aren’t really ‘muslims’, just decent/smart people. But seriously, they’re lucky. They have the first election in years and they vote the MB in… How stupid is that? They really are lucky getting a second chance. The Egyptian ARMY is behind common sense this time though. Hopefully a happy future…
Silverlady says
Well, didn’t that All High Muckety Muck say Islam wasn’t fun. No humor in Muzzie-land. Welcome to what you have sown.
charles says
The bad news , they will come to USA or Canada as refugees
Susan K says
Sorry Charles but Canada is a NO-NO. The only refugees we now accept are persecuted religious minorities.
A few weeks ago, our Immigration Minister managed to get a 14-yr old Christian Paki girl out of Pakistan that had been arrested on blasphemy charges. She is now in Canada as a refugee. Her and her family. Christians.
Sujith says
BNI , Don’t get too excited …brotha obama will most likely use this as an excvuse and start importing more palestnians as refugees who will go on to do more “workplace violence” like Hassan (SOA) the palestininan Ford hood jihadi.
BareNakedIslam says
Su, the POS doesn’t need an excuse.
joeb says
But…but…that’s RAAAACIST AND ISLAMOPHOBIC!
chris says
I get this warm fuzzy feeling when I read about muslims not getting their way lol!
Huck Folder says
“Almost a thousand pilgrims from Gaza are stuck in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.”
I think they will fit in the exclusive ‘Hotel Kaaba’, in mecca (no Jews allowed).
How about a popular uprising in Gaza to overthrow the MB/Hamas there? And Lebanon could get rid of its ingrate usurpers Hezbollah.
I wonder if any of those ‘leaders’ give that a moment’s thought?
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” Especially when it’s laying there, a foot from its erstwhile body!
Huck Folder says
BtW
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
Is one arsehole’s worth of sinislam foetidity and tinhattery. Certainly quote them for a laugh, but never believe anything they say, unless corroborated by a REAL trust-able source.
And note the benign neutral sounding name. Can you say antisemite?
BareNakedIslam says
HF, this story is on FOX, CNN and several other places. I just took the first one I saw.
angelito says
No country wants these treacherous, bloodthirsty (even by Muslim standards) lazy, whining bums always ready to join any radical cause and bloody riot. The bunch of con artists, professional “victims and sufferers”, milking the stupid West for years. All they do is demonstrating, rioting and celebrating acts of terror committed worldwide. Imagine if Israel pulled a stunt like this? UN resolutions, leftards’ demonstrations, a few flotillas in the sea, a dozen of Rachel Korys ready to be squashed for the Pali cause. Wait, and the Joooooooooooos will be blamed for this ban.
perceptor1 says
‘Palestinians’ are the descendants of immigrants who arrived in the region between 1850 and 1947. They are related to Arabs in the surrounding countries. The Palestine Mandate was divided into Transjordan for Arabs and the West Bank for Jews. If they don’t want to live in a modern pluralistic state, the ‘Palestinians’ should go to Jordan, learn a trade and get a job.
Saudi Arabia’s official discrimination against Jews is what is causing this airline problem.
Tet Vet 1968 says
Everywhere these asshole go, trouble follows. Good for Egypt we need to follow suit instead of inviting them here on the tax payer dollar.
Gayle Knaff says
Here’s the reason why,
BareNakedIslam says
Wow, this is 6 years old and its still around. LOL
Susan K says
I find it shameful that the Trayvor Martin story is still ongoing… gives me the feeling the MSM is looking to create a race war.
As to palos, well, they are not welcome anywhere, even in the muslim world.
ruth cohen says
life is not america ok .its far more complicated here in this part of the world and there are no simple answers. racist does not fit all sizes.
wow americans wake the hell up. you are not the centre of the world and no one here gives a donkeys about trayvon or any of the other american gangsters. they have american gangsters here sponsored by obama.
Stephen Rohaty says
I find it amazing that so many poor, deprived residents of Gaza can afford such travel expenses. And the photographs haven’t showed even ONE person who looks like he’s starving!
BareNakedIslam says
SR, that’s because Palestinian women are the 3rd most obese people on earth and the men are #8.
SweetOlBob says
Just asking, but aren’t Saudi and Jordan two of the muslim countries that wont allow repatriation of people who are so called Palestinians ?
And you can’t blame Egypt for not allowing the entrance of someone from a made up country. Next they’ll claim to be from Oz, Camelot, or Sand Nigaria. ……….. I know. My baaaaaaad !
BareNakedIslam says
Bob, yes, that’s right.
ruth cohen says
oh but they love to whine and whine and whine, and now they have a reason to whine and whine and whine. he he he he
and the media has to keep quiet of course so a perfectly good opportunity to whine some more is lost .
whine on baby whine on
such music to my ears.
dragonfFIRE01 says
tto bad so sad. how come the little girl in the red dress isn’t covered head to toe in a garbage bag?
abey says
As soon as a jealous Muslim woman pointed at the girl’s mother that the girl is in naked, the family of the girl put her in a garbage bag.
raymond cameron says
Because she is not yet married…
Silverio Facundo says
Dumb Israelis. They should learn from the Egyptians how to treat a palestinian.
BareNakedIslam says
SF, if they did that they would get condemnation from the whole world. The EU just passed a law that disallows trade with Israel in any part that doesn’t fall within the 1949 borders.
ADHD says
Did you mean “1967 borders”? If they’re trying to push for 1948 or 1949 borders, that’s a true attack upon Israel’s very integrity as a country!!! [Israel then was NOT a contiguous country – did the British deliberately design it to be so in order that the Arabs would have an easier time to destroy it??]
BareNakedIslam says
ADHD, no, they are saying 1949 borders.
ADHD says
O WEH, dear Ms. BNI!!!!
It’s only one step then for them to openly deny Israel’s entire right to exist – it’s tantamount to openly siding with both the Communists AND the Nazis as well as the Moslems!!!
Boy oh boy, the totalitarians have triumphed in the EU, which now deserves to be disbanded every bit as much as the UN!!!
DEATH TO ISLAM – and ALL totalitarianism, period!!!
Lah says
I LOVE IT! Finally, A No-Go-Zone (country) for muslims.
spartacus !!!!!!!! says
start behaving like human beings and maybe it will change ! , and also “reconize ” I srael ‘s right to exist !!!!
Condor18 says
Maybe a large percentage are actually returning home to Palestine. Maybe they are coming to Egypt to Join with the Muslim Brotherhood and wage Jihad against the Egyptian Army and people. It’s better to leave them where they are until things be sorted out.
Sam ZAr says
it’s that simple to you, they just some people who have kids and families, and they just wanna get back home…you and tpeople like you make me sick. so go F*** urself !
BareNakedIslam says
Sam, Oh, BOO HOO!