Abu Marzouk: Egypt’s bias in favor of Palestine serves its national security

Senior member of Hamas’s political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk said that the bias in favor of the Palestinian cause and the refusal to engage in hostile activities against the Palestinian resistance have always been, since 1948, an essential part of Egypt’s national security and should remain like this.

Abu Marzouk made his remarks on Friday on his facebook page commenting on an Egyptian TV talk show in which the speakers launched scathing attacks on the Palestinians, especially those in Gaza.

During the TV program, the host demanded leader of the military coup Abdul-Fattah Asisi to close Rafah border crossing forever, not to allow Gaza patient to enter Egypt for medical treatment, have all Palestinian residents in Egypt arrested, have the citizenship of all Palestinian holders of Egyptian passports revoked, bomb Gaza and kill its people.

Abu Marzouk highlighted that the death on the land of steadfastness and resistance is honor and pride and questioned if the Egyptian jails are big enough to hold all Palestinians living in Egypt.

The Hamas official noted that the vast majority of the Palestinians had legally obtained Egyptian citizenship during the rule of the military council which was formed following the 25 January revolution and not during the rule of president Mohamed Morsi as the TV show host claimed.

“Gaza is still occupied, so will this [Egyptian] bombing target Gaza children or the occupation?” Abu Marzouk replied to the host’s appeal to Sisi to bomb Gaza.

Abu Marzouk also pointed out that the TV program seemed to have been prepared exclusively to verbally abuse the Palestinians in general and incite the Egyptian street against them, asserting that the guests who participated in this farce over the phone also used all kind of foul language against the Palestinians