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2011-12-28 Africa North

Muslim Brotherhood: Hamas is our role model

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Posted by trailing wife 2011-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I think that Israel should make a quiet deal with the Egyptian military, before these individuals are in power. That is, in exchange for sending an s-load of Paleos permanently to Egypt, allow a bunch of the Copts to emigrate to the Negev desert.

The Negev is pretty empty, except for small bands of Bedouins, and by having a place for them to go outside of Egypt will take a lot of pressure off them. The Copts will have a chance at prosperity and religious freedom, and can provide a lot of inexpensive labor the Paleos used to provide Israel.

It would also strongly improve Israel's standing among Christian nations, who would likely help a lot with resettlement costs and development.

Israel (and quietly the US) could help this deal by offering the Egyptian junta money to accept a lot of Gazans. A couple hundred million dollars would still, for a while at least, be chump change for getting rid of Hamas and 1.6m Paleos.

Granted, Israel couldn't take all 8.2m Copts, but a lot of them would prefer to take their chances in Egypt.

The end result would be a Gaza Strip full of Copts, again part of Israel, and a bunch of Christians in the Negev, displacing the Arabs there. In turn, the Egyptian Salafists could turn their hate against other Egyptian Muslims.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-12-28 10:07|| 2011-12-28 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 I like the idea of an exchange: all of the Gaza 'Paleos' (or whatever Newt calls 'em) are sent to Egypt; all the Copts in Egypt move to Gaza. Gaza would be crowded but in a generation it would be the Hong Kong of the Mediterranean.

Posted by Steve White 2011-12-28 12:00|| 2011-12-28 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The Copts would have to build from scratch - you know the Paleos wouldn't leave one brick on another for them.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-12-28 13:36|| 2011-12-28 13:36|| Front Page Top

#4 CF, sounds like opportunity to me.

Posted by AlanC 2011-12-28 14:27|| 2011-12-28 14:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Some Copts could live under the benign overlordship of the nation of the Jews. Some, including the Coptic pope, Shenouda III, could not.

Anonymoose, Israel has already offered refuge and a world headquarters to the Baha'i in Haifa. Relatedly, there are six million Jews in Israel, of a population already 23% Arab. There are approximately eight million Copts in Egypt. If half of them, or a quarter, took up the Israeli offer you suggest, for how long would the character of the country remain Jewish?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-12-28 17:03|| 2011-12-28 17:03|| Front Page Top

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