Egypt official tells Europe to take in 1m Gazans if ‘you care about human rights so much’

If we care about human rights we should be stopping the bombings. People keep treating this like an earthquake or a hurricane or something.

That's rich considering how few Gazans Egypt has taken in over the years. Europe doesn't want them, true, but neither does the Arab world. Palestinians have always been at the bottom of the strata.

Is this the same Egypt who vocally supported Hamas for the last 16 years? Maybe they can take 1M.refugees too.

Refugees are a financial and societal strain on any country taking them. That is not to say that no one should take in refugees at all. We as humans should take care of other people running away from death. At the same time I can definitely see why a developing country like Egypt isn't willing to take any refugees due to the immense implications that comes with.

Having said that, what I find very interesting as a European is that we, and our allies are poruing money and weapons into Israel, weapons which they use to carpet bomb and level Gaza to the ground, leaving over a MILLION people without homes in an already empoverished country where 70% of the population are refugees. Why aren't we as Europeans saying anything to our "allies" over the pond pouring weapons into Israel? At the end of the day, if Israel continues with this campaign of ethnic cleansing these people will have to run somewhere, and some of them will end up here.

Or maybe Europe could pressure Israel to stop bombing civilians and carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

oh boy refugees are the achilles tendon of our current europe. This topic brings all the people in the arms of the far right political parties.

I wish the cowardly aliens would come back and finish us off like they tried to in 1908

They say they're quoting the financial times. But I can't find this article, or this quote on the financial times

https://www.ft.com/search?sort=date&q="you+want+us+to+take+one+million+people"

Does anyone have a link to the original source?

As a Turk, I find them right. If you support attacks to Syria, you shouldn't be surprised when the Syrians come knocking at your door. If you support bombing Palestine, you still shouldn't be upset. This is a natural phenomenon. It's a matter of action and reaction.

Unfortunately the case of Syria applies to Turkey as well. We should have been impartial from the very beginning. However, Erdoğan, the leader of the Ummah, wanted to intervene, as usual.

We could exchange them for a few million other refugees from your continent.

So Egypt's position is that the people in Gaza are subhumans who don't deserve any rights?