Al-O-Meter
Well-Known Member
The short answer is the Egyptian military sees the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat and Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
I’ve encountered many answers as to why Egypt has a blockade and isn’t allowing in refugees but nearly all of them are half-truths or outright lies that misdirect fault to Israel or insist that it wouldn’t solve the problem of bringing peace to the region. The blockade long predates these latest hostilities and if Egypt truly wanted a “Two State Solution”, Egypt would have accepted Gaza back when Israel tried to give it to them along with the rest of Sinai and set up the Palestinian state in Gaza themselves.
It is important to understand the Muslim Brotherhood is considered a terrorist organization by Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates in addition to Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood wants to set up a pan-Arabic Caliphate and they have attempted to assassinate several heads of state in that effort. Nobody welcomed democracy coming to the Middle East as much as the Muslim Brotherhood. In the Egyptian elections at the end of 2005, the Muslim Brotherhood picked up nearly a hundred seats and the pendulum was swinging hard in their favor. By 2011, they had the majority in Egypt’s Parliament and the Presidency.
Egypt’s military always viewed the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat. It was the military that set up the blockade on the Muslim Brotherhood hotbed of Gaza soon after the 2005 elections, and in 2013 Egypt’s military initiated a coup to depose Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi as Egypt was falling into chaos.
The Egyptian military views Gaza as being filled with the most radical of true believers in the Muslim Brotherhood cause. They see the militants in Gaza as the type that would breach walls and kill kids in elementary schools in pursuit of the Muslim Brotherhood’s goals. What Hamas just did was confirm everything the Egyptian military said about why they needed their expensive fortifications along their border with Gaza.
I’ve encountered many answers as to why Egypt has a blockade and isn’t allowing in refugees but nearly all of them are half-truths or outright lies that misdirect fault to Israel or insist that it wouldn’t solve the problem of bringing peace to the region. The blockade long predates these latest hostilities and if Egypt truly wanted a “Two State Solution”, Egypt would have accepted Gaza back when Israel tried to give it to them along with the rest of Sinai and set up the Palestinian state in Gaza themselves.
It is important to understand the Muslim Brotherhood is considered a terrorist organization by Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates in addition to Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood wants to set up a pan-Arabic Caliphate and they have attempted to assassinate several heads of state in that effort. Nobody welcomed democracy coming to the Middle East as much as the Muslim Brotherhood. In the Egyptian elections at the end of 2005, the Muslim Brotherhood picked up nearly a hundred seats and the pendulum was swinging hard in their favor. By 2011, they had the majority in Egypt’s Parliament and the Presidency.
Egypt’s military always viewed the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat. It was the military that set up the blockade on the Muslim Brotherhood hotbed of Gaza soon after the 2005 elections, and in 2013 Egypt’s military initiated a coup to depose Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi as Egypt was falling into chaos.
The Egyptian military views Gaza as being filled with the most radical of true believers in the Muslim Brotherhood cause. They see the militants in Gaza as the type that would breach walls and kill kids in elementary schools in pursuit of the Muslim Brotherhood’s goals. What Hamas just did was confirm everything the Egyptian military said about why they needed their expensive fortifications along their border with Gaza.