Brigitte Gabriel: Allowing Palestinian & Islamist Refugees Was the Beginning of the End for Christian Lebanon
When Jordan took in Palestinian refugees the first thing they did was to try and assassinate King Hussein. King Abdullah, remembering this well, is a hard no on the subject of new refugees.
Saudi Arabia is a kingdom, so you can imagine how they felt about that. Even so, they had taken in some Palestinians and look what happened.
Egypt had a more secular government that was the lynch pin for peace in the region.
During the so called “Arab Spring” President Obama helped the Hamas’ umbrella organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, take control of the country. The first thing they did was start slaughtering minority groups.
Since Egyptian military officers are trained in the United States, they did not tolerate this for long and ousted the Muslim Brotherhood over Obama’s objection.
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad took in Palestinian refugees some years ago, but since militant Palestinians see Assad as a fence sitter, they participated in the uprising against him. Syria now refuses new Palestinian refugees.
Qatar walks the fence. They support Hamas leadership but also cooperate with the United States military to help protect them from Iran. Qatar believes that Palestinian refugees would turn against the Qatari government and history suggests that is likely.
Iran is Shiite, Palestinians are Sunni. Full stop. Iran uses the Palestinians as cannon fodder against the Jews. Most Iranians have no tolerance for Palestinians and the Sunni minority in Iran is oppressed. Much of Iran is more secular and also would not tolerate Palestinians. Case in point:
As for Lebanon, let Brigitte Gabriel explain. She lived it:
Does anyone see a pattern?