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Mon May 13, 2024, 04:58 PM

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Palestinian Authority refuses to administer Rafah crossing - report [View all] Beastly Boy May 13 OP

Small blurb in an Axios article JustAnotherGen May 13 #1

I guess because netanyahu has scheduled to bomb the crap out of it? Think. Again. May 13 #3

Where is the link that the crossing will be bombed? former9thward May 13 #24

or maybe they want to stay away from netanyahu's bombing. Think. Again. May 13 #27

Or maybe they want never-ending war. former9thward May 13 #29

Yeah, maybe that's it. Think. Again. May 13 #31

I think it's PA versus Hamas retaliation. LeftInTX May 13 #20

My money is on fear of Hamas. ShazzieB May 13 #30

Yes question everything May 13 #34

Ugh NY Times but thank you JustAnotherGen May 13 #47

Here's The Problem In a Nutshell, Sir The Magistrate May 13 #2

Well put. cachukis May 13 #4

You would think JustAnotherGen May 13 #5

The PA is presumably the government of the Palestinian state sarisataka May 13 #6

It always seemed to make the most sense to just have Egypt and Jordan take back Gaza and the West Bank respectively. tritsofme May 13 #7

Israel has tried, each country refused to take the land back sarisataka May 13 #8

Egypt built a wall. Just like Israel. yagotme May 13 #22

Egypt doesn't want Gaza pinkstarburst May 13 #45

PA is only on west bank IbogaProject May 13 #10

Hamas did kick them out to become the de facto government of Gaza sarisataka May 13 #14

Don't conflate the West Bank with Gaza sanatanadharma May 13 #9

Doesn't the desired Palestinian state include both West Bank and Gaza? sarisataka May 13 #15

Far be it from me to conflate the West bank and Gaza. Beastly Boy May 13 #17

Does the PA have the authority to tell Israel to leave Rafah alone then? Eko May 13 #41

They may not wish to be a cleanup crew helping out Israeli PR when the racist Israeli PM denies Palestinian sovereignty. David__77 May 13 #11

If they want to be the goverment of a sovereign Palestine... Happy Hoosier May 13 #13

So sticking it to Israel is preferred over assisting Palestinians and their future sovereignty. Sympthsical May 13 #16

The Palestinians care more about having a cause than a country. Ace Rothstein May 13 #23

That is the single most concise articulation of the issue I've heard in ages. Thank you for the truth on this one. N/t CincyDem May 13 #26

Or they may not wish to be a cleanup crew for the hamas terrorists who created the Gaza clusterfuck in the first place Beastly Boy May 13 #18

Yup. And witting or unwitting collaborators under IDF subjugation. AloeVera May 13 #32

Not surprising.... Happy Hoosier May 13 #12

One sentence in the JP is not enough info. I can't find anything in the Time of Israel. LeftInTX May 13 #19

Thanks for digging deeper. Beastly Boy May 13 #21

The PA didn't refuse, it conditioned it. AloeVera May 13 #25

I get the semantic differences between refusing and conditioning, but Beastly Boy May 13 #28

It's never ridiculous to present the full facts. AloeVera May 13 #33

What part of my narrative do your facts not fit? Beastly Boy May 13 #42

It seems to me to be supremely ridiculous to post something that gives exactly zero information iemanja May 13 #36

I wish I could make sense of this Beastly Boy May 13 #37

What does that mean? iemanja May 13 #35

The US must have no effing clue what they are asking for and who they are asking. Beastly Boy May 13 #38

The PA is *supposedly* the official government of all of Palestine NickB79 May 13 #39

Here's an article: Israel proposes Palestinian Authority unofficially operate Rafah crossing[ LeftInTX May 13 #40

Thank you. iemanja May 13 #43

Israel broke it, therefore they bought it. Xolodno May 13 #44

It was the US that made the request. Beastly Boy May 13 #46

Which amounts to the same thing. Xolodno May 13 #48

I am not sure what promises, assurances and committments the PA had seen broken. Beastly Boy May 13 #49

So they don't actually want to participate in the solution Happy Hoosier May 13 #50

Would you trust Bibi? I sure as hell wouldn't. Xolodno May 15 #51