If President Joe Biden wants to help the suffering Palestinians trapped in Gaza, he would airlift them to the United States.
That was the lead of my column that ran on January 27.
Some thought the column was written tongue in cheek. Others thought it was far-fetched.
It turned out to be neither. It turned out to be true.
Because that is what Biden is planning to do.
It is not enough for Biden and the far-left progressives that cities across the country are being overrun and destabilized with more than ten million mostly illegal immigrants. They want more.
Biden has learned how to flood the country with illegal immigrants by opening the southern border and waving everybody in.
“So why not bring in two million Palestinians?” I wrote. “America is a vast, rich, big-hearted country with an endless supply of money to pay for welfare benefits for the needy from around the world.”
“The Palestinians would have a new home. The Israelis would like it too.
“But please don’t tell Joe,” I concluded. “He might do it.”
Well, somebody must have told him. Because that is what he is doing.
Under the plan, the US would admit an untold number of Palestinians from Gaza into the U.S. under the U.S. Refuge Admissions Program, something it has not done in the past to any extent.
Since its inception in 1980 only a few Palestinians have been resettled in the U.S. According to CBS, of the more than 400,000 refugees resettled in the U.S. in the last ten years, fewer than 600 were Palestinians.
Needless to say, the Palestinians trapped in Gaza, especially in the city of Rafah, are more than willing to come.
One way to get them out is to put them on planes and send them to the U.S., which is what Biden is proposing.
He could do so by using the old Yasser Arafat Airport outside of Rafa which has been shut down for years. It would be like Biden’s 2021 airlift at Kabul, only more orderly.
He must act soon though because the Israeli Defense Force is on the verge of wiping out the remains of the terrorist organization Hamas in Rafah, Hamas’ last stronghold in Gaza.
This means that the lives of some one million or so civilian Palestinians caught in the crossfire are at risk unless Israel figures some way to get them out of the line of fire.
They have nowhere to go since even none of the neighboring Arab nations in the Mideast—with good reason– will take them in, not Egypt, which borders Gaza, not Jordan, not Saudi Arabia and not anyone else.
Who wants potential Hamas terrorists around? Apparently Biden does, which probably accounts for why we already have many Hamas terrorist activists on college campuses.
That way the Hamas terrorists among the new arrivals could reinforce their fellow travelers on the front lines at college campuses across the country in Hamas supplied tents chanting “Death to America.”
In addition to an open southern border, Biden is already flying in hundreds of thousands of immigrants into cities across the country under a related program.
The program allows immigrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua to fly directly into the U.S. if they have a “sponsor.” Which could be anybody.
So why not the Palestinians?
The Palestinians would have to have a sponsor and pass medical tests and security background checks before being allowed into the county which, under Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, is a joke.
In the final analysis, though, Biden’s decision bringing in Palestinians could be a foreign policy masterstroke.
It could bring about the two-state solution that diplomats have talked about for years, the second state being in the United States, of course.
But don’t tell Joe.
Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
