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Why do no Arab countries want to take in the Gaza Palestinians?
Well something called Black September in 1970.

Basically after the 6-Day War in 1967, Israel occupied the West Bank,
forcing the Palestine feedayen to relocate to Jordan, where they began
to launch large scale attacks on Israel.

Israel retaliated, leading to the Battle of Karameh in 1968, against a
combined PLO and Jordanian Armed Forces. While Israel destroyed the
Karameh camp, one of PLO’s centers in Jordan, they ultimately had to
retreat, leaving to both sides claiming their victory. So far, so good.

The Arab world now began to back PLO, pouring in aid, arms, as the PLO
grew rapidly, and by 1970 it began to aim for the overthrow of the
Hashemite Monarchy in Jordan. I mean just consider this, you have been
rendered homeless, the ruler of a country gives you asylum, helps you in
the war, and you try to overthrow him.

It is like what we say in Hindi, “Jis thaali mein khaatha hai, usi mein
thookta hai”( Spit in the same plate, you eat from). The Palestinians
began to run a parallel state, openly cocking a snook at Jordanian laws,
they actually attempted to assasinate Hussein, yes the very same King
Hussein who had given them shelter.

Hussein had enough of it and was seeking to kick them out, but was wary
of Arab nations intervening, especially Syria, which had no love lost
for Jordan. However when the Palestinians hijacked 3 civilian airliners,
evacuated the passengers, and blew them up in what was called the
Dawson’s Field Hijackings, Hussein had enough.

Dawson's Field hijackings - Wikipedia
1970 Palestinian militant plane hijackings "Dawson Field" redirects
here. Not to be confused with Dawson Airport . In September 1970,
members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
hijacked four airliners bound for New York City and one for London .
Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field , a remote desert
airstrip near Zarqa , Jordan , formerly Royal Air Force Station Zarqa,
which then became PFLP's "Revolutionary Airport". By the end of the
incident, one hijacker had been killed and one injury reported. This was
the second instance of mass aircraft hijacking, after an escape from
communist Czechoslovakia in 1950. On 6 September, TWA Flight 741 from
Frankfurt (a Boeing 707 ) and Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich (a Douglas
DC-8 ) were forced to land at Dawson's Field. [1] [2] On the same day,
the hijacking of El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam (another 707) was
foiled: hijacker Patrick Argüello was shot and killed, and his partner
Leila Khaled was subdued and handed over to British authorities in
London. Two PFLP hijackers, who were prevented from boarding the El Al
flight, hijacked instead Pan Am Flight 93, a Boeing 747 , diverting the
large plane first to Beirut and then to Cairo , rather than to the small
Jordanian airstrip. On 9 September, a fifth plane, BOAC Flight 775, a
Vickers VC10 coming from Bahrain, was hijacked by a PFLP sympathizer and
taken to Dawson's Field in order to pressure the British to free Khaled.
While the majority of the 310 hostages were transferred to Amman and
freed on 11 September, the PFLP segregated the flight crews and Jewish
passengers, keeping the 56 Jewish hostages in custody, while releasing
the non-Jews. Six hostages in particular were kept because they were men
and American citizens, not necessarily Jews: Robert Norman Schwartz, a
U.S. Defense Department researcher stationed in Thailand; James Lee
Woods, Schwartz's assistant and security detail; Gerald Berkowitz, an
American-born Jew and college chemistry professor; Rabbi Avraham
Harari-Raful and his brother Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful, two Sephardi
Brooklyn school teachers; and John Hollingsworth, a U.S. State
Department employee. Schwartz, whose father was Jewish, was a convert to
Catholicism. [3] [4] [5] On 12 September, prior to their announced
deadline, the PFLP used explosives to destroy the empty planes, as they
anticipated a counterstrike. [1] The PFLP's exploitation of Jordanian
territory was an example of the increasingly autonomous Arab Palestinian
activity within the Kingdom of Jordan – a serious challenge to the
Hashemite monarchy of King Hussein . Hussein declared martial law on 16
September and from 17 to 27 September his forces deployed into
Palestinian-controlled areas in what became known as Black September in
Jordan , nearly triggering a regional war involving Syria , Iraq , and
Israel . A swift Jordanian victory, however, enabled a 30 September deal
in which the remaining PFLP hostages were released in exchange f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson%27s_Field_hijackings
By September 1970, Jordanian Army surrounded the cities having a
signifcant PLO presence, shelled the refugee camps. Syria sent a 10,000
strong unit in support of the Palestinians, however they were thoroughly
routed by the Jordanian forces. By July 1971, the Jordanian armed forces
kicked out the Palestinians, one by one, and around 2000 fedayeen
surrendered, ending the conflict.

It did not end there, the Palestinian refugees moved to Lebanon to seek
refuge there. Till then it was one of the more peaceful, liberal
countries in the Middle East, with a diverse population of Christians,
Sunni, Shias and Druze. The influx of Palestinians tilted the
demographics in favor of the Muslims. And soon it led to a conflict
between the Maronite Christian forces and the Palestinians, that led to
a civil war, which raged for 15 years, devastating the country, left
150,000 dead, and a large scale exodus mostly of Lebanese Christians.

Incidentally porn star Mia Khalifa, was one of the Lebanese Christians,
forced to leave the country, and settled in US. It’s another thing that
nowadays she speaks for the Palestinians.

Even after the Taif Agreement of 1989, PLO refused to abide by the
terms, and it was after the Battle of Sidon in 1991, that the Lebanese
Govt, finally kicked them out.

So as we have seen, that is two fellow Arab nations that had to get into
a messy conflict, after taking in the Palestinian refugees.

Other Arab nations have their own issues, Egypt is wary of taking them
in as they usually mix with the radical Muslim Brotherhood and sundry
Islamists, turning out to be a security risk.

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Yasser Arafat backed him,
leading to Saudi, Kuwait, and all the Gulf nations totally pissed off.
This when they had sheltered most of the Palestinian refugees.

And that comes to this guy, often hailed as a moderate, wise statesman,
another guy on whom the Nobel Peace Prize was wasted.

Yasser Arafat was a bloody, manipulative crook, who was responsible for
Black September in Jordan and the Lebanese Civil War. It was only later
on that he recognized he could no longer fight Israel, and sought a two
state solution. Anyway more on him later.

The fact is Palestinians have been their own worst enemy, led by crooks
like Arafat or medieval barbarians like the Hamas. They got too greedy
for their own good in Jordan, which had given them asylum, they went to
Lebanon and stoked up a civil war there. Would you blame other Arab
nations for not taking them in.

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