[ April 24, 2024 ]
The Yarmouk camp for so-called “Palestinian” refugees near Damascus has been under relentless bombardment by the Syrian government over the last week. The Assad regime is attempting destroy the last remnants of ISIS fighters in the camp, but in doing so, it has been bombing indiscriminately, killing and wounding many of the “Palestinian” civilians in the camp. The Yarmouk camp is by far the largest of the 13 camps in which “Palestinians” live in Syria, and at its height had close to 200,000 residents. “Palestinians” have been forced to live in camps in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, not granted full citizenship in their host countries nor anywhere else in the Arab world, though a kind of partial citizenship is granted in Jordan), and kept from full access to educational and vocational opportunities, all in order to prevent them from integrating in their host societies, as they might so easily have done. For these “Palestinians” are most useful to Arab propagandists if they remain un-integrated and displayed to the world as suffering “refugees” who have no place to go except back to Palestine, and need to be given the right of return.
Photographs show the total devastation of this camp, which is where “Palestinians” have been forced to live ever since 1948, because, like all the Arab states, Syria too has wanted to keep the “Palestinian” cause alive internationally by keeping the real-life “Palestinians” more or less imprisoned in these camps, in unpleasant conditions, and not allowed to acquire Syrian citizenship. For it is more important to the Syrians that the “cause of Palestine” be promoted, even if it means damaging the life-chances of generations of those Muslim Arabs who continue to all themselves “Palestinians.”
The latest bombing of the Yarmouk camp has been indiscriminate; the target was ISIS, but the civilian (i.e., non-ISIS) dead are now said by the government to have been in the dozens. These are figures from the Assad government, which has a history of consistently understating civilian casualties.
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The Yarmouk camp has been bombed before in this civil war. In December 2012, there was an aerial bombing by Assad’s MiG fighter jets. In what would eventually become commonplace, the aerial bombing targeted a hospital, a mosque and a school, killing dozens in the process. The Assad regime suspected that Syrian opposition forces were using Yarmouk as one of their bases. In 2013, there was a siege of the camp; at least 135 “Palestinians” died directly from being bombed during the siege. More than 1020 died indirectly, of starvation.
Since June 2014 the Syrian regime started to cut off water to the camp; this drought, manufactured by the government, continues to this day. Water has to be smuggled in, for the 18,000 “Palestinians” — less than 10% of those who once lived in Yarmouk — who remain.
At the time of the siege, those in Yarmouk were aware that many in the Arab Muslim world were indifferent. Even their fellow “Palestinians” elsewhere remained silent. “Of course we’ve seen how many Palestinians aren’t speaking about our crisis,” Hakem Saied from Yarmouk News Agency explains, “most people in the camp blame the Palestinian factions the most for what has happened. They have not done anything to help us. But many Palestinians that aren’t even in factions have also not said a lot about the siege. We know that if this were happening in Palestine the reactions would have been stronger. We know this and it bothers us a lot.”
For several years the civilians in the Yarmouk Camp, who are no threat to the Assad regime, have been subject to relentless and indiscriminate bombing, meant to destroy as many buildings as possible that might be used by members of ISIS and by members of rebel groups opposed to Assad. From 160,000 in 2011, when the Syrian civil war began, the population of Yarmouk has fallen to around 20,000.
In the last week, dozens have been reported killed by Syrian bombs.
But there has been no outcry over these attacks on “Palestinians” in the Yarmouk Camp. Not at the U.N. Not in Europe. Not from any Arab states. Not even from the “Palestine Authority.” But when “Palestinians” trying to break the security fence are killed by Israelis, there are howls of denunciation at the U.N. and from Arab and Muslim countries.
Right now, the “Palestinians” in Gaza have been conducting their Great March of Return, which began on March 30 and will end on May 15. Tens of thousands of Gazans — the Hamas organizers had hoped to attract 100,000 marchers but at no time have there been more than 30,000, and the current figure is 10,000 — have headed toward Israel’s security fence. The marchers are described almost everywhere as “peaceful” and “unarmed.” But in fact, they hurl rocks and Molotov cocktails over the fence, burn tires to create a smokescreen, making it harder for Israeli soldiers to target them with rubber bullets, tear gas, or in those cases where some manage to get to the fence and attempt to breach it, live fire. Some of the “Palestinians” have also been armed with guns — though the foreign press has been reluctant to report on this.
So far, over more than four weeks, from March 30 to May 1, tens of thousands of “Palestinian” marchers in Gaza have tried to breach the security fence, egged on by Hamas organizers who also deliberately put children at the front of the lines, no doubt hoping that some would be hit by Israeli fire, which would thereby provide a propaganda coup. The “unarmed” marchers throw rocks and Molotov cocktails over the fence; still “unarmed,” they attach burning rags to kites and let them loose to fly over the fence into Israel, where they land and in several cases have set fire to farmers’ fields, a new tactic, and a great worry for the Israelis. Meanwhile, the Israelis continually warn the Gazans, through loudspeakers, to stay away from the security fence. They make copious use of tear gas and non-lethal rubber bullets. Only if none of that works do Israeli snipers then use live fire, as a last resort, against those Gazan “Palestinians” who have been throwing into Israel Molotov cocktails, rocks, burning tires, and kites with petrol-soaked tails aflame, and have begun to destroy part of the security fence, in order to enter Israel and attack soldiers and civilians. The use of live fire does not always mean shooting to kill; the Israeli snipers have to judge when an Arab attacker may actually pose a real danger, either because of what he is throwing over the fence at the soldiers, or because he has reached, and is making a reach in, the security fence. Nonetheless, 48 people have been killed. The Israeli actions — misreported as attacks on “unarmed demonstrators” — have been loudly deplored in Arab capitals, in Europe, and at the U.N.
Meanwhile, in less than a week, approximately the same number of “Palestinians” have been killed by Syrian bombardment of the Yarmouk camp, and 3,500 “Palestinians” have fled that camp during that time. Unlike the Israelis with the Gazan marchers, the Syrians faced no threat from the “Palestinians” in Yarmouk. They had no burning kites or Molotov cocktails. They were stuck in Yarmouk, where ISIS had taken up part of the camp, and have been helpless collateral damage in the attempt by Assad to finish off ISIS. No Arab country, not even those opposed to Assad, has bothered to deplore the callous killing in Yarmouk of many dozens of the “Palestinians.” To do so would, the Arabs must calculate, make for disturbing comparisons with the careful Israeli response to the Gazan marches, and the Arabs would prefer, in any case, not to draw attention away from that “Palestinian” propaganda spectacle.
Such hypocrisy no longer amazes. We expect it, whenever Israel is concerned. But the next time someone tells you, with a straight face, about what those terrible Israelis are doing to innocent unarmed marchers in Gaza, mention the Molotov cocktails, the rocks, the burning tires, the kites with burning rags attached, of those “unarmed” marchers, mention Hamas’s deliberate use of children in these marches, mention the care the Israelis take to warn the marchers, and the non-lethal force — tear gas and rubber bullets — they employ, using live fire only as a last resort, and then, as a parting shot, be sure to ask “And why this silence about what’s been happening to the ‘Palestinians’ in Yarmouk?”
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35 Comments
5 years ago
The Palestinians are like roaches that build bridges by sacrificing some to stick to the glue trap while others crawl over their backs to get to the tasty mouse.. once the mouse is slowly consumed, they move on to another country, and turn it into another glue trap….
5 years ago
Reply to
762x51FMJ
There were many fine professionals and hard-working people among the Palestinians when Israel took their homeland. Possibly, as with the Tibetans, it is difficult to remain proper and civil when your homeland has been stolen.
5 years ago
Reply to
K Pomeroy
Thx,Yasser Arafat,Jr. Too bad for you that in ’48 ,entire Western world wanted Jewish State.
5 years ago
Reply to
K Pomeroy
And what about the Jews and Christians whose homeland it was before the muslims conquered the Levant? Plus all the many nations they raped and looted and Islamicised? If the Ottomans had not entered WW1 on the side of the Austrian/Germans the “Palestinians” would still be living in their poverty stricken villages with no education of health care, marrying their cousins and producing even more muslims who are mentally and physically damaged.. Meanwhile in 1948 they ran to the UN camps (plus thousands and thousands of assorted muslims from Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Syria – all you needed was an Arab name, no proper I.D.)) once they discovered that they would be fed, watered and educated for free. And it is still the same today – they live off foreign aid and bemoan the fact that they lost their land, just like they had done to others in bygone days. Like their founder, always playing the victim card
5 years ago
Because the mainstream liberal media cares more about Muslim lives than the lives of infidels (such as the Yazidis who were suffering genocide in Iraq or the long-persecuted Christians).
5 years ago
no Jews near Yarmouk
5 years ago
Here are your starving Palestinians. The starvation is caused BY MUSLIMS!
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/01/starving-death-syria-yarmouk-camp-201412974852695717.html
5 years ago
Israel is the only place on Earth where ”palestinians’ can have full citizenship.
Period.
D
5 years ago
Reply to
K Pomeroy
Yes, it is a beautiful free country, where people of all religions and faiths are free to celebrate and practice their religion of choice as well as work in all fields and run for political office be it Jew, Christian or even the lowly muslim. Now if you are talking about the Muslim Terrorist Controlled Territories, I would keep my distance from PLO or HAMAS, or any of the numerous muslim terrorist groups
5 years ago
Reply to
K Pomeroy
A lot of them would give their eye teeth to live in a free and rational nation like Israel .
5 years ago
why so little about Yarmouk? because it doesn’t suit the democrat party-media complex’s political agenda.
5 years ago
Yarmouk, not a camp but a neighborhood with many large buildings, had housed Palestinians that fled their former homeland when the Israeli regime, backed by the West, took over Palestine. The leader of the Palestinians in Yarmouk used to cooperate with Assad’s government, and the people received government services. Then this same leader announced he was siding with ISIS, and so services were cut off. Yarmouk became an ISIS stronghold, right in the Syrian capital. This is obviously unacceptable for a democratic secular country like Syria. So if you are criticizing Assad for killing civilians, tell me how Assad can rid Damascus of ISIS without killing civilians. What are Assad’s alternatives? And are such alternatives militarily feasible? What would you do, Mr. Fitzgerald, if you were in Assad’s shoes? Wouldn’t your implied demand that no civilians get killed be rather tricky for any army to implement? How well do the US, UK, France and Israel protect civilians when they bomb?
D
5 years ago
Reply to
K Pomeroy
when the Israeli regime, backed by the West, took over Palestine.
That is an impressively biased way to describe Israel’s war of survival in 1948. Let’s see now, the UN, in taking over the reigns from the Mandate, assigned some exiguous territory to the Jews of the land the Romans called Palestine (the indefensible “Auschwitz borders”). Jews were the overwhelming majority in that area.
Jews accepted the partition, Arabs did not. The day after Israel declared itself a state, five Arab nations invaded, vowing to annihilate the tiny Jewish state and urging Arabs to flee. Many did, expecting to return and seize the spoils of war. In places (notably Haifa) Jews pleaded with their Arab neighbors to stay, to little avail. Arabs fled the area, but found themselves pawns in an Arab power play when Arab armies were defeated. Jordan annexed the West Bank (to no dismay) and granted citizenship to those residents (later withdrawn).
Many of those who fled had no long term ties to the area- they, or their parents, were drawn to the area by economic opportunities afforded by the Zionists. The UN adopted a highly original definition of “refugee” and created a separate bureaucracy to address this privileged class of refugees.
Oh yes, and Israel accepted as many Jews, who were basically kicked out of Arab countries, as Arabs who fled who fled at the urging of Arab governments.
Arabs have been hoist by their own petard of hatred. My sympathies are limited.
5 years ago
Reply to
K Pomeroy
a democratic secular country like Syria.
Syria is a brutal dictatorship, not a democracy. You are a shameless liar.
5 years ago
Reply to
K Pomeroy
Both Assad and the Islamic State are two sides of the same coin, both are responsible for genocide, more or less.
5 years ago
When you’ve seen one palestinian, you’ve seen them all.
D
5 years ago
No one ever talks about how much foreign aid money goes to the camps in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. If it is zero then why does money go to the Gaza strip or the west bank???
5 years ago
There was a time I’d feel sorry for muslim refugees, but now that I know their nature and their religion, I don’t have any sympathy, particularly the ones actively waging war against Israel. I think it’s time that Netanyahu take off the gloves and just start shooting all Palestinians who try to breach the border fence. This is the only way the jihadis will stop attacking Israel, when they know they can never win.
The only reason Israel holds back is because they fear negative propaganda and maybe they feel sorry for their attackers. Enough is enough-those people who hate Israel won’t change their mind no matter how nice they are. So treat this as a hot war and act accordingly. If Palestinians bring rocks and molotov cocktails to a gunfight, well that’s their loss.
As for the Yarmouk refugees, the media should highlight Arab hypocrisy and cruelty to their fellow Arabs, they are not Israel’s problem.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rick Reynolds
It would only take one plane with Napalm to clean up the the hordes trying to breach the border.
5 years ago
Congratulations Israel and Jerusalem with the 70th birthday, God is with you, I love you, and pray to God to bless you and give you peace in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord AMEN.
D
5 years ago
The difference is the entire arab world, EU, UN, etc…. view “palestinian” blood as worthless unless it can be attributed to Jews doing the killing, or the ever so popular pallywood fake killings by Israel soldiers.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
Really, the Mid-East has vast swathes of land that could’ve been given to the Paleswine but never were.
D
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
The only land they want is Israel, then everyone else’s.
5 years ago
The Israelis need to understand that you don’t win a war by being nice and gentle to your enemy even if they are not exactly armed. Being humane to animals like the palestinkians only encourage more violence. The Israeli soldiers know it but the problem is that pee pee fouckenYahoo worries more about Europian public opinion than his own people. He is responsible for many Israeli casualties by not using the army in a proper way. Shame on him.
5 years ago
THE MSM doesn’t do reporting anymore. No, they just announce propaganda. Whatever the left touches they bring RUIN too.
Whether government, civil or media – they destroy! They are mankind’s RUBBISH. People only obsessed with their anus.
Thus,the love of the New World Odor, BO, TURD world countries, supporting Demoncraps, etc.
5 years ago
Arguing with a brain dead leftist is like talking to your evil other self in the mirror: pointless. As even if you demolish their arguments you cannot overcome the bonds of indoctrination as that can only come from within.
5 years ago
HELL THEY’RE ARABS BY ANCESTRY . PACK EM ALL UP AND SHIP EM BACK TO SAUDI ARABIA WHERE THEY CAME FROM. AND AS FAR AS BEING REFUGEES ???? HELL THE LAST OF THE REAL SO CALLED REFUGEES DIED OUT OR ARE SO OLD THEY CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER THEIR NAMES .
5 years ago
The way they breed their numbers will back in no time
5 years ago
“thanks” for dehumanizing all of them the same.
