They support them enough to put up a 7 meter flag on the side of a building.
The head of the Port Said Bar Association, Safwat Abdel Hamid, described in stirring terms both how much Egyptians care about Palestinians and how much they do not want a single one to enter their country.
See if you can follow the logic:
We will not forget Palestine, and we will not forget Al-Aqsa. This battle is an eternal battle to establish the State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. We declare frankly and clearly that we are one people under the umbrella of the Egyptian Armed Forces, which is capable of protecting the borders from all machinations and plots - capable of protecting Sinai, preventing mass displacement meant to eliminate the Palestinian people, or displacing the land of Sinai, and Egypt will remain independent while preserving its rights, as long as the Egyptian army is able to protect the borders, preventing forced displacement to the Sinai Peninsula.We are able to support the Palestinian cause within its territories until it establishes its state. Palestine is a national cause par excellence that we defend, and we refuse to be a hosting place for anyone. From here, from Egypt, the strong country with the most powerful armed forces, we are able, by God’s command, to support the Palestinian cause within its territories until It establishes its independent state.This usurping enemy, which claims to be God’s chosen people, is being defeated and suffering losses. They say that Allah's hand is tied. This statement has fallen and will fall forever at the hands of the Egyptian army and the Palestinian resistance. We do not defend Egypt alone, but rather we defend Palestine, our land, which once made it difficult for the Zionist enemy. We are ready for October in all the coming wars. Our land is sacred land, sovereign land, protected by the Egyptian people and army, and we will not allow the Zionist entity to force anyone into Egyptian territory.The occupying entity state does not want to take Gaza alone, but rather wants to establish its Zionist state from the Nile to the Euphrates. We are alert and interested in this issue, and we will not allow the Zionist entity in any form to force anyone into Egyptian lands.We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and with the Palestinian resistance with all its factions.
Decades of antisemitic brainwashing has convinced Egyptians that Israel wants to expel all Palestinians from Gaza and take it over, on the way to grabbing all the land of "Greater Israel" from the Nile to the Euphrates.
This has become mainstream Arab thinking. Here's an antisemitic cartoon that illustrates this: the missile/Torah has the words "Displacement Scheme."
And Egypt will resist those plots - by keeping Palestinians in the open-air prison that Egypt established for them in Gaza in the late 1940s, when they forced all Palestinians in Egypt to move to Gaza.
There is some deja vu here. For 75 years, Arabs have been telling Palestinians to stay in miserable conditions - for their own good. They claimed that Palestinians didn't want to become citizens of other Arab countries to keep their own cause alive, yet when loopholes opened in Egyptian and Lebanese laws allowing some to become citizens, they eagerly lined up to become citizens (and then the Egyptians took away that citizenship a few years later.)
Never do any of these Arab "brethren" ask Palestinians what they want. They tell them what they are allowed to want.
But I'm sure the Palestinians stuck in Gaza are very happy about that seven meter flag.
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