Reply #14: That Is A Fair Question, Ma'am

[The Magistrate]

There was no organized Arab Palestinian resistance against Egypt, so there would not have been any need for measures analogous to Israeli measures during the period of guerrilla activity after the area was over-run in '67. There were political rivals to the Egyptian-sponsored leadership, and these went into police cellars, just as Egyptian opponents of a current regime did. Arab Palestinians were forbidden to work in Egypt, or to depart from the refigee camps, which initially were ghastly tent-city affairs very different from what is seen now. On the other hand, due to U.N. rations and medical care, it can be argued they were better fed and healthier than the poor of Egypt.

It seems likely to me that Israel would prefer Egyptian control to international control, when it came to suppressing cross-border violence from Gaza, in the present day, although the past was something else.