Bernie Ecclestoned to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-22 years agowhy doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza?message-square117fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up1135arrow-down1message-squarewhy doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza?Bernie Ecclestoned to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-22 years agomessage-square117fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedOPlinkfedilinkEnglish-2•2 years agoYes, but what’s your definition of filled up? UK has 280 people per km2 Egypt has 113 people per km2
minus-squareMolochAlterlinkfedilink17•2 years agoPopulation density is a shit stat to use for this, most of Egypt is uninhabitable.
minus-square@Fosheze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoEgypt is literally a desert. Most of the country is uninhabitable. Do you propose they just start shoving refugees into the desert?
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoAs is the rest of the region. Or are you saying the whole of the middle east is uninhabitable?
minus-square@neptune@dmv.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoI mean generally able to absorb refugees. It’s less a matter of current density, and more a matter of having resources, infrastructure and critically time to absorb them. Yes, I agree Europe and the US could do more.
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedOPlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoI’d hope they’d get a lot of NGO support
minus-square@neptune@dmv.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoIt’s obviously way more complicated than that
minus-squareChrislinkfedilink-1•2 years agoPlease tell me who to vote for to help. Biden is pretty pro Israel afaik. :(
Yes, but what’s your definition of filled up?
UK has 280 people per km2
Egypt has 113 people per km2
Population density is a shit stat to use for this, most of Egypt is uninhabitable.
Egypt is literally a desert. Most of the country is uninhabitable. Do you propose they just start shoving refugees into the desert?
As is the rest of the region. Or are you saying the whole of the middle east is uninhabitable?
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I mean generally able to absorb refugees. It’s less a matter of current density, and more a matter of having resources, infrastructure and critically time to absorb them. Yes, I agree Europe and the US could do more.
I’d hope they’d get a lot of NGO support
It’s obviously way more complicated than that
Please tell me who to vote for to help. Biden is pretty pro Israel afaik. :(