ᝰ.ᐟ ᴏᴄ ᴀꜱᴋ ɢᴀᴍᴇ : 𝓝𝓲𝓷𝓪 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓻𝓸𝓮
𖦹 ed mention, answers to this post
💭 Nina’s MBTI is ENFJ-T
🚗 Nina cannot drive, as her father will not allow her to learn
✈️ Nina loves traveling, and her favorite country to visit is Greece
🎮 Nina’s favorite hobbies are sketching, organizing, and online shopping
💍 Nina only has her ears pierced, considered getting a hand piercing but decided against it
🖊️ Nina does not have any tattoos
📚 Nina is about to graduate high school
🎻 Nina can play piano, flute, and cello
🩹 Nina has general anxiety, OCD, and anorexia with orthorexic tendencies
🩸 Nina’s blood type is AB+
🎶 Nina enjoys oldies, classical, and k-pop. Her favorite songs from each genre are: Emotions by Brenda Lee, Mazurka by Tchaikovsky, and Pied Piper by BTS
💯 Nina hates lizards, she prefers honey over syrup, she started learning Korean and gave up, then began learning again
💤 Nina is a light sleeper, and she repeatedly wakes up in the middle of the night due to anticipating her father will come in
🔱 Nina can swim, and enjoys doing it when she can
🔺Nina is afraid of weapons, and had never thought of using anything as one
🔶 Nina does not know CPR
🚫 Nina does not smoke, but she does drink on the occasion, when he father allows it. Things she’ll indulge in are: champagne, strawberry wine, and strawberry daquiris
🌈 Nina hasn’t ever explored her sexuality, but has always only been attracted to men. Her pronouns are she/her
🎄 Nina’s favorite holiday is Valentine’s Day, with Christmas as a close second
🐶 Nina doesn’t have any pets of her own, but cares for the stray cats around her neighborhood
🐈 Nina prefers to be alone, but when she’s out and about, she prefers to be with a lot of friends
🐷 Nina’s favorite animal is the ragdoll cat
🐉 Nina’s favorite mythical creature is Echidna
🍃 Nina’s favorite subject is English Lit
🌴 Nina most definitely enjoys gardening, and her favorite plant is the Peace Lily
🍎 Nina was born in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, but she and her father moved to the United States when she was an infant. She currently lives in the business district of New York
❤️ Nina always keeps her promises, she goes out of her way to help others, and she’s very easy to get along with
🤍 she screws her dad lmao
💔 Nina blindly trusts everyone she meets, she can’t set boundaries, and she’s an airhead
💘 Nina considers her father the person closest to her
🧡 Nina prioritizes everyone before herself
💛 Nina speaks English, French, and is learning Korean, German, and Welsh
💚 Nina prefers to be outside
💙 Nina doesn’t have any special powers, as she’s human!
💜 Nina is 40% French and 10% Swiss (on her father’s side), 10% Maltese, 20% Polish, and 20% Dane (on her mother’s side)
🖤 Nina has never hurt anyone physically before, but has more than likely broken a boy’s heart without knowing by rejecting him
🎂 Nina’s birthday is December 26th. She’s 18 years old. Her sun, moon, and rising signs are: Capricorn, Libra, Libra. Her tarot card is ‘The Tower’, her ruling planet is Saturn, and her ruling number is 8.
🍝 Nina’s favorite food is Salade niçoise
🍰 Nina’s favorite dessert is cheesecake
🍦 Nina’s favorite ice cream flavor is Black Walnut
🍔 Nina is very good at both cooking and baking, bu prefers to bake. Her favorite thing to bake is chou à la crème (cream puffs)
🥯 Nina’s usual breakfast is: one tangerine, one carton of soy milk
🥪 Nina’s usual lunch is: ½ cup of non-fat cottage cheese, 1 cup of raspberries
🍛 Nina’s usual dinner is: 4 oz silken tofu, ½ of a steamed yam, peach jam on the side
🍸 Nina’s favorite alcoholic drink is a strawberry daquiri
☕️ Nina prefers coffee, and her go-to order is a hazelnut latte
😊 Nina’s career goal is preschool teacher, but if that doesn’t work out, she would like to be a florist or veterinarian
😖 Nina is an extravert, and is way too trusting of others
🤔 One of Nina’s quirks is the more she talks, the more her words end up slurred. Another is she has an unhealthy obsession with strawberries, and if she doesn’t eat anything else, she’ll eat them - she considers them a ‘clean’ food. Another quirk of hers is she will brush her teeth repeatedly at one time in a specific order and has to do it 5 times before she feels her teeth are clean - this leads to her gums bleeding, and her father has ended up having to brush her teeth for her many mornings and nights to prevent this from happening.
🧐 Nina is very emotional
🤓 Nina is very chatty, loves meeting new people and making friends, and gets comfortable with others quickly
🤩 Nina is a planner, and makes a to-do list every morning. She won’t let herself do anything leisurely before she completes her to-do list
😥 Nina gets overwhelmed easily, which leads to stress, which then leads to her crying
😓 Nina is very open-minded, and she’s curious. Her father has compared her to a kitten due to her always venturing off to investigate things that catch her eye
😞 Nina attracts other people, and has many friends, though she only spends time with them at school
🤒 Nina is very prone to sickness due to her less-than-strong immune system - a side effect of her eating disorders
👨👩👧👦 There is only one person in Nina’s immediate family: her father, John. She’s never known her mother, and her father always dismisses her when she inquires about her family on either side.
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Levant history/present situation question: do you know why Egypt isn't taking in refugees from Gaza? Thanks for offering to answer questions
Hey! Sorry this took so long for me to answer; I just had a 72-hour work week and my brain was spaghetti. Let’s see what I can do here.
So first, I’m going to say a lot of this is going to be educated guesses because there’s a lot that’s unknown. With that said, I don’t think any of these guesses are unreasonable.
To begin with, Egypt’s stated reason is that they think if Palestinians are allowed to settle in Egypt, they’ll never be able to go back to Israel. I think this is true, as far as it goes; that’s certainly a valid concern about the current war.
With that said, I don’t think that’s the only reason. Until 1967, Egypt actually controlled the Gaza Strip; it lost possession thereof in the Six-Day War, which Israel initiated after Egypt blockaded all shipping to Israel. What it discovered during that time is that Palestine is difficult to maintain, manage, or rule; Israel offered to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt after its victory in the war but didn’t include Gaza in this offer, and Egypt didn’t fight for it. I suspect at least part of the lessons they learned before 1967 lead to their reluctance now. (Incidentally, Jordan also learned this lesson. They expelled their Palestinians and stopped trying to retake the West Bank around the same time.)
Palestinians also have a tendency to bring terrorism with them when they move. They’ve been expelled from several countries as a result, including Kuwait, where they backed Saddam Hussein’s invasion and annexation attempt. I’d imagine this plays a role, as well; the big players in Gaza (mostly Hamas these days) are open admirers of terrorism. Egypt has a peace agreement with Israel, and taking in a group known to commit pogroms and to have endorsed genocide of the Jewish people would probably not go over well for them, especially given the US backs Israel.
The third reason I suspect is at play is one that does disservice to Israelis and Palestinians both, and it’s another reason the UN and UNWRA are hopelessly corrupt. Let me show you three people living in America:
This is Ahmed. His parents were targeted in Afghanistan by al-Qaeda in the 1990s, and fled to America. Here, Ahmed put down roots, and applied for citizenship when he was 22.
This is a second Ahmed. His grandparents fled Iran when the Ayatollah took power. His parents were born in the US, and so was Ahmed.
This is a third Ahmed. His great-grandparents left Israel-Palestine during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Ahmed’s grandparents, parents, and Ahmed himself were all born on US soil. Ahmed has never set foot in the MENA region—not Palestine, not Israel, not Egypt or Iraq or Iran or Sudan or ANYWHERE. He grew up in a middle-class home in Illinois and speaks no Arabic; indeed, the only reason he has an Arabic name is because he was named for his grandfather. His friends mostly call him Eddie. Ahmed has expressed little to no interest in Palestine.
One of the three Ahmeds is considered a refugee by the UN. Do you know which one?
…..yeah.
Palestinians are the only group on earth for whom this is true, by the way. If you’re a refugee from anywhere else, you stop being a refugee the moment you get citizenship in a new country, and only people who actually fled a country—not their descendants born elsewhere—are considered refugees. Hell, Palestinians BORN IN GAZA OR THE WEST BANK AND STILL LIVING THERE are considered refugees. You literally cannot be of Palestinian descent and not be a refugee.
So my suspicion for the actual biggest reason is this special treatment Palestinians receive from the UN. Egypt would be in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t situation in which giving the Palestinians citizenship would be seen as “ceding to Israel” but not doing so would be “contributing to the plight of Palestinians,” and no amount of aid they provided would ever be considered enough. Frankly if I was the leader of a country I wouldn’t want to take them in under those conditions either. (Hence why I say the UN is doing a disservice to the Palestinians with this—they’re disincentivizing countries that might otherwise help.)
So there you have it: their stated reason and also what I think are some reasonable suppositions as to further reasons.
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