Refugees from Palestine

For John, BLUF:  President Biden is floating anothe5r "feel good" move with regard to the conflict in the Middle East.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Biden's Plan to Resettle Thousands of Gaza Refugees Is Insane, Warns Expert

From PJ Media, by Columnist Rick Moran, 18 May 2024, 1:13 PM.

Here is the lede plus one:

Earlier this month, the Biden administration floated a trial balloon, suggesting "senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents."

No other Middle Eastern country is crazy enough to want large numbers of Gazans to enter their country.  The history of Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria suggests that the refugees would look to overthrow the government or launch terrorist attacks against Israel from within their borders.

This apparently isn't deterring Joe Biden.  Perhaps it should.

This is differentt from my proposal to brng all Israeli Citizens who are willing to the United States.  My proposal is based on the idea that Palestinian militant groups are not likely to make peace with Israel any time in the future.♠

The proposal by President Biden is not to bring random Palestinians to the United States, but rather those with ties of people already here.  This is an important distinction, if you believe in the idea of assimmilation.  If the sponsors have assimilated into the general US population then the immigrants are likely to become peaceful members of the overall population.

However, a move to bring in random Palistinians will create the situation Mr Moran describes in his article. : There is a reason neighboring nations, such as Egypt and Jordan, will not accept (more) Palistinian refugees. : Those refugees have a history of causing trouble in their new host nation.  I see not reason to think things would be different in the United State.

Finally, there is the question of what such refugee action would do to fix the problem in the Middle East.  If President Biden brings 200,000 thousand Palistinians from Gaza to the US, that will still leave 1.8 million disgruntled Gaza Citizens, prepared to conduct Urban Guerilla Warfare and supporting Hamas or like organizations

This is, at heart, a feel good move on the part of President Biden, perhaps garnering some more votes in Noivember.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  i am reminded of the story out of the Balkins where a reporter is talkng to someone at their doorfront.  The person being interviewed points up the street and says that house five up on the other side of the street used to belong to my family, four hundred years ago.  In some parts of the world memories are very long.