Israel/Palestine

In both countries, refugees have been a huge destabilizer in their countries.

However, Egypt has a long, violent, history with the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt is where the hard core Islamic ideology was developed and where it first took root. From there, it spread to other areas including Gaza where it is known today as Hamas. One of the Egyptian offshoots, Tanzim al-Jihad, were responsible for the assassination of Sadat. The Muslim Brotherhood almost created a Muslim Theocracy in 2013, but fell after the military stepped in following a significant uprising of the populace. At this point Egypt remains a pluralistic society, but the threat still remains. Given this, and given the destabilization of refugees, it only makes sense for Egypt to want to avoid anything which might break the stalemate in Egypt.


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