Syria pounds “Palestinian” refugee camp. Not one headline from the MSM.

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Because it’s all about the Jew-hatred.

Catastrophic destruction as Syrian regime pounds Palestinian refugee camp

By Seth J. Frantzman, J Post, May 20, 2018 (thanks to Mark):

There have been intermittent attempts to get the ISIS fighters to leave, but it’s not entirely clear where they would go.

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Smoke rises from the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus, Syria April 28, 2018

Amid scenes labeled “apocalyptic” and a “crime against humanity,” the Syrian regime continued its offensive on Sunday to retake the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, a neighborhood in south Damascus.

Most of the area is held by Islamic State and tens of thousands of Palestinian residents fled years ago, but thousands remain under a brutal siege.

The scenes from Yarmouk on Sunday looked like Stalingrad in 1942 or Berlin in 1945, during the Second World War: bombed-out buildings as far as the eye can see; roads turned to rubble; alleyways turned into canyons of destruction, gutted, gray and slumping from air strikes. There doesn’t appear to be anything left of many city blocks that were once a thriving community, the home of more than 200,000 people in 2011 when the Syrian civil war broke out. Now only a few thousand remain. Those who do are reported to be starving under the regime’s siege.

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Since the middle of May, the regime has focused its firepower on the stronghold. It signed agreements with the local rebels so it could focus on destroying ISIS in southern Damascus, in an area held for years by the extremists. With support from Russia, according to numerous online accounts, the regime has sent tanks and planes to root out what remains.

There have been intermittent attempts to get the ISIS fighters to leave, but it’s not entirely clear where they would go. In the other cease-fire deals the regime has signed, the rebel fighters have been bused north to an area of Syria controlled by rebels and the Turkish Army. But no one wants ISIS members.

Nevertheless, busloads have been shown leaving Yarmouk, destination unknown. Rumors say they will be sent to the “Syrian desert,” which would mean the Euphrates Valley.

The last time the regime signed a deal to ship ISIS fighters from the Qalamoun Mountains near Lebanon to the Euphrates in August 2017, the US targeted the convoy in order to stop the fighters from reaching an area near eastern Syria. The US is still carrying out offensive operations against ISIS alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces in the country’s east, so it’s unclear how the coalition will react if the regime seeks to dump the fighters in the “Syrian desert.”

There is a lot of outrage online over what has happened in Yarmouk. There are also accusations that world silence is part of a hypocrisy regarding the Assad regime’s brutalities.

Idrees Ahmad, an academic and frequent commentator on the Syrian conflict, wrote on Thursday that what is happening in Yarmouk requires people to be outraged. He accused people of hypocrisy for saying Israel’s actions in Gaza were crimes while ignoring Yarmouk.

However, activists who support the Syrian regime have accused Israel of being the “spokesperson for ISIS. ISIS took over Yarmouk, and Assad and Palestinian PFLP are fighting against it!”

Syrian President Bashar Assad is “liberating” the area, claim Assad supporters.

The UN for its part calls for allowing civilians safe passage out of what remains of the camp. The area under the control of ISIS now spans several large city blocks, or about 1 square kilometer.

On Sunday, Syrian state media denied a report that insurgents had begun leaving in a withdrawal agreement.
The recovery of the enclave south of Damascus would mark another milestone in Assad’s war effort, crushing the last besieged rebel enclave in western Syria.

Swaths of territory at the borders with Iraq, Turkey and Jordan, however, remain outside state control.
Syrian government forces and their allies have been battling to recover the enclave south of Damascus since defeating rebels in eastern Ghouta, also near the capital, in April.

The area is centered on the al-Hajar al-Aswad district and adjoins the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, the largest in Syria.
The month-long battles have been the toughest fought by the Syrian Army and its allied forces this year against opposition forces in pockets around the capital, defense experts say.

Despite extensive use of air power that has left many parts of the area leveled to the ground, troops and allied militias have sustained heavy losses as they encounter tough resistance from die-hard militants waging a battle to the end.
In a live broadcast, a reporter with Syrian state TV said the Syrian army operations in the Hajar al-Aswad area were nearing their end and insurgent lines were collapsing as columns of smoke rose from the area behind him.
Syrian state news agency SANA said troops were about to close in on militants holed up in a small area of high density buildings north of Hajar al-Aswad.

“The fighting skills of the army are foiling all the efforts by the terrorists to prevent the army from completing the liberation of the area,” SANA said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights earlier said buses had entered the enclave after midnight to take out fighters and their families. They had left toward the Syrian Badia, a sparsely populated expanse of territory east of the capital that extends to the border with Jordan and Iraq, it said.

Islamic State militants had torched their offices in the Yarmouk enclave, the Observatory said.
Negotiated withdrawals have been a common feature of the Syrian war in recent years as the government, aided by the Russian military and Iran-backed forces, has steadily clawed back territory.

The rebels have mostly been given safe passage to northwestern Syria. In the last two months alone, the United Nations says 110,000 people have been evacuated to northwestern Syria and rebel-held areas north of Aleppo.

The opposition has called it a policy of forced displacement amounting to demographic change to drive out Assad’s opponents. The Syrian government has said nobody is forced to leave and those who stay must accept state rule.

While Assad has vowed to win back “every inch” of Syria, the map of the conflict suggests a more complicated time ahead from now on.

The US military is in much of the east and northeast, which is controlled by Kurdish groups that want autonomy from Damascus. It has used force to defend the territory from pro-Assad forces.

Turkey has sent forces into the northwest to counter those same Kurdish groups, carving out a buffer zone where anti-Assad rebels have regrouped.

In the southwest, where rebels hold territory at the Israeli and Jordanian border, Assad faces the risk of conflict with Israel, which wants his Iranian-backed allies kept well away from the frontier and has mounted air strikes in Syria.
Reuters contributed to this report.

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mudpuppy
mudpuppy
5 years ago

I am starting to believe to let the hard-nosed dictators take care of this. And “Palestinians,” and ISIS, go together hand in hand.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Muslims hurting or killing other Muslims do not easily fit into the mainstream “liberal” agenda and worldview, it is difficult to use these incidents to attack conservatives, so they are generally ignored or downplayed.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Agree. And Ramadan is Great time to go jihad and they may outdo last years score http://tiny.cc/7w7qsy

……Let them kill each other, its better !

robert v g
robert v g
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Point being? Are we supposed to root for Assad? Or,let the non-combatants go to border of Israel to riot?

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Reply to  robert v g

I root for whoever destroys ISIS.

Assad’s time will come soon enough.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Assad both present and his father protected xians and only attacked sunnis jihadis who tried to overthrow their govt.

After saudi/obama funded jihadis took over xian villages they were slaughtered , churches descreted /destroyed/burned women/girls taken as sex slaves and you bought the propaganda Assad was the bad guy ?

He is no saint but compared to the jihadis he has been more protective of xians than Pope himself!
Here’s Obama’s envoy to the jihadis including ISIS before they got more ambitious !

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Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

If you consider my comment, you will find that I share your views to some extent.

Assad is still a butcher, as was his father, but without his father’s cunning.

He will not survive.

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

Yes, always better to blame the Jews. Better yet – the ‘Settler” Jews!

garry pollackD
garry pollack
5 years ago

In the Naked & the Dead one of Norman Mailers charachters groused…but I M an atheist! His comrade replied…When they come for U…they won’t care what kind of Jew U R!

Abby
Abby
5 years ago

What are U.S, Turkey doing in Syria at all? I never heard before this all started that Asad was killing Christians. It’s time for the CIA-Deep State (ISIS) to be rooted out. Trump was right to cut funding to these groups. Now deep state will have to use money that could otherwise have gone to some other mischief to support the “good terrorist”.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago
Reply to  Abby

We, along with Israel, have an interest in seeing that Syria does not become a vassal state of Iran. That would be profoundly unsettling to the entire Middle East. We live in a very interconnected world.

neil barron
neil barron
5 years ago

I doubt that Syria will become a vassal state to Iran because Russia won’t put up with it. They have invested to much into Syria for their Mediterranean Sea port which is part of their plan to control the pipe lines to protect there own lines and sales.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago
Reply to  neil barron

Is that what this fooferah is all about?
My Canada could learn a good lesson about the dangers of pipeline disagreements.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago
Reply to  neil barron

NOW THE RUSSIANS KNOW HOW FOOLISH AND UNSTABLE THEIR SYRIAN INVESTMENT ACTUALLY IS.

Will they really throw good money after bad?

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago

I prefer the word “DISCONNECTED”.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago
Reply to  Abby

I like your logic.
I don’t understand it but I do like it.

joanofark06
joanofark06
5 years ago
Reply to  Abby

What is the US doing in in Syria? What I’ve been hearing, or reading is that they are supposed to be helping the Kurds get ISIS. But then the Kurds say that the US deserted them. So what else could the US be doing in Syria? I wonder…
As for Damascus, I’m sure everyone knows (the bible believing christians, anyway) what’s going to happen to it one day?

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. Isaiah 17:1

So it’s not strange, that we hear more and more about what’s going on in Damascus, where just a year or two ago, you never heard anything of this capital of Syria, and for that matter, news about Syria, was non-existent. And to show how close we are to Damascus being wiped out, we also shouldn’t wonder about this time in history, where thousands of muslim men, are being immigrated, to all these MANY non-muslim countries. There’s a reason, a purpose, for this. Satan will need them to do his will, during the tribulation, as those both, hate the christians, and jews, with a passion, and Rev 20:4 becomes a reality. Will there be a 7 peace treaty first, between two certain countries, before this happens? Yes, because that brings on the 7 year Tribulation, and then, people better know whose side they want to be on. Wait for it….

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

If it bleeds it leads. Unless it doesn’t fit the narrative…

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
5 years ago

Nobody cares about those dead Arabs from places like Yarmouk. If you can’t blame Israel, at least directly, they lose currency.

It is the rankest type of hypocrisy, but it is the reality of the situation.

aebe
aebe
5 years ago

Pigs . Sows and boars , thousands of them , drop them in the middle of that square kilometer . Do double duty , chase out survivors and clean up the bodies .

Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights… Carry !

spfoam1
spfoam1
5 years ago

Palestinian = disposable Mohammedans. They are Mohammed’s cannon fodder. It’s only a big deal when the wrong folks dispose of them.

Rick Reynolds
Rick Reynolds
5 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

Well said.

Pauli
Pauli
5 years ago

Good, less Palis in any event is a good thing

satcatchet
satcatchet
5 years ago

This shows how foolish the Syrian government is. They could have used those Palestinian stooges at their military bases and when the IDF bombs the foolish Syrian bases, the world will see that the IDF can kill two birds with one stone then go tend to the Gaza issue.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago

Muslims killing muslims is not news. It has been that way since the second cult broke away from the first cult.

michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

Astute observation that !!!

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago

Thank you. I try. My wife complains that I am very trying at times. 🙂

michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

You tell her that she should appreciate your brilliant mind and that you have fans across the ocean who do recognise something special.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago

She read your post. She said, “Nah, nothing special about that old goat. But I love him anyway.”

Now you know why I am always happy! 🙂

michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

x to both

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

I refuse to take sides between Sunshine Kid and Mrs. Sunshine.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago
Reply to  Mickey Oberman

Neither do I. I joke a lot about us, but we have an excellent relationship. She doesn’t pull punches, and will double you over with laughter. She’s a beautiful old gal, and I love her dearly.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

You are both winners and champions.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago
Reply to  Mickey Oberman

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Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

No comment.

Dusty Rhodes Decker
Dusty Rhodes Decker
5 years ago

Just another example of how it is when it comes to the “Palestinians.” If other Arab Mohammedans kill them, the media ignore it. But if anyone else does, the Great Satan and the Little Satan are to blame. Hypocrisy on steroids and everyone but the liberal/progressive useful idiots know it.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago

” The opposition has called it a policy of forced displacement amounting to demographic change to drive out Assad’s opponents. The Syrian government has said nobody is forced to leave and those who stay must accept state rule.”

If everyone were forced to leave Assad would have to import more “refugees” so he would still have a supply of civilians to murder.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Oops! That means ISIS will head to Damascus to fulfill Bible prophecy Damascus is to be a heap of ruins.

Mickey Oberman
Mickey Oberman
5 years ago

Okay.

joanofark06
joanofark06
5 years ago
Reply to  Mickey Oberman

A non-believer?

joanofark06
joanofark06
5 years ago

Ah, just what I wrote about, a few comments above. Good call! Someone else knows Isaiah 17:1..
Isn’t it something, that we never heard about Damascus in the news, or Syria, for that matter, a few years ago? And now, it’s pretty much daily news! And who is NOT in that country? We got Turkey, Iran, Russia, US, and even France, has something to say about it. Or was that Germany? Lol, hard to keep up with, but luckily I’ve been archiving everything that makes news over there, since our bible, has this prophecy, and I can go to it, and look for whatever subject I need about it. I feel that verse is getting MUCH closer to coming true…someone, or some country, is always mad at someone else, for something…they did, or said, about Syria. So you think it’ll be ISIS to pull the plug? We’ll we wait…and see…and let others know what’s coming, and have them laugh at us. But no worries, right? We know.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
5 years ago

Muslims killing Muslims doesn’t sell news ……. But Jews killing Muslims…. BREAKING NEWS !!!

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Rick Reynolds
Rick Reynolds
5 years ago

Unfortunately Muslims killing non-Muslims doesn’t get the media’s interest either. Only when the non-Muslims attack Muslims defending themselves from jihad (like Burma/Thailand and of course Israel as you mentioned) do the Leftists get on their high-horse. Sick world we live in.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Reply to  Rick Reynolds

The Muslims are the liberals’ favorite “victims”, their best weapons against conservatives.

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