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The John Batchelor Show

Preview: Colleague Jonathan Schanzer of FDD explains why the Arab states refuse to offer sanctuary to the displaced Gazans. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Preview: Colleague Jonathan Schanzer of FDD explains why the Arab states refuse to offer sanctuary to the displaced Gazans. More later.
1909 ARABIAN DESERT

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0:00.0

This is John Batchel, colleague Jonathan Shanzer, the Executive Director of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, commenting on three possibilities for the Gazans while the Gaza Strip is rebuilt or to live somewhere out of gunfire.

0:17.1

One mentioned often is Syria, another is Sudan in civil war.

0:25.0

Another in Somalia.

0:26.8

Jonathan Chen's like Somalia, and it gives us reasons.

0:30.4

Why not in Arab state?

0:31.7

Jonathan explains.

0:32.8

The Arabs reject the Ghazans.

0:34.6

Why?

0:35.5

Jonathan explains.

0:37.3

It's peculiar. It's not logical that the Ghazans. Why? Jonathan explains. It's peculiar. It's not logical that the

0:40.0

gossans are stuck in a free fire zone between gangsters and the IDF defending Israel.

0:47.4

There's Jonathan Shanzer. Much more of this tonight.

0:51.0

I don't think so right now. I do think that it's interesting. Somalia, for example,

0:55.7

is a place that I could potentially see, primarily because you're not dealing with some of the Arab sensitivities, John.

1:01.5

I mean, one of the things that we have to acknowledge here is that this sclerotic, pathological thinking of the Arab world,

1:09.2

dating back to the 1948,

1:11.2

1949 War of Independence holds that the Palestinians need to remain symbols in their

1:17.7

battle for national independence.

1:21.1

And so whether it's the Egyptians, whether it's been the Syrians in the past,

1:25.6

the Sudanese, they have all insisted that the Palestinians

1:29.3

remain where they are holding the keys to their parents' home purportedly, or grandparents' homes,

1:37.1

or great-grandparents' homes, for that matter, saying that they have a right to return.

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