I will quote you from a previous article - Why Can’t Pro-Israel and anti-Israel Advocates Understand Each Other? Found here
This article was one of the best written pieces that I have read in a long time, especially the emphasis on ‘Civilizational and law-based framing’ - a point of view that I wholly embrace. Strictly speaking, population relocation is ethnic cleansing if the people being relocated are forced to cross a nation state boundary. Gaza at this juncture is not a nation state - but rather a land mass that is disputed between the IDF and Hamas, i.e. it is not a state that is recognized by anyone internationally. The minute that there is a suggestion that other Muslim countries “take in” fellow Muslim refugees, we are moving away from a civilizational and law based framing to a more midlevel religious tribal framing (think the first Crusade), and I will remind the audience that the State of Israel is predicated on a law-based framing - specifically the 1947 UN based charter (Resolution 181). Crossing this boundary in my opinion sets a very dangerous precedant. So there is a rhetorical trap here. Specifically the seven million plus Palestinians who live inside Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel proper are legally Israel’s problem and no one else’s. Egypt has absolutely no intention of taking in two plus million radicalized Palestinians, given their long standing war in the Sinai for the last decade with Islamic militants. And this might not even be in Israel’s best long term interest. If Hamas moves to Sinai, they could easily overthrow a weakened Egyptian government. Then Israel would be dealing with a repeat of the 1967 war on steroids with a nation state proper, rather than just the Gaza strip.
