Syria's Yarmouk reveals how Arabs and Iranian proxies cynically claim to be pro-Palestinian while killing and raping them ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Syria's Yarmouk reveals how Arabs and Iranian proxies cynically claim to be pro-Palestinian while killing and raping them

Yarmouk was a "refugee camp" near (now within) Damascus that used to house some 150,000 Palestinians.

It was destroyed during the Syrian civil war, even though all sides claim to care so much about Palestinians and the residents tried to remain neutral.

L'Orient Today visited Yarmouk:

Abu Sleiman recounted the final chapter for generations of stateless Palestinians.

"We were told, ‘You Palestinians, you should stay on the sidelines.’ But I was born here, I lived here. This bloodthirsty regime has always worked to sow divisions between us and the Syrians, just as it has with other minorities.”

The former Syrian regime, which styled itself as the standard-bearer of Arab nationalism, had long wielded the Palestinian cause as part of the founding myth of its Baathist ideology.

“This regime has effectively erased the capital of the Palestinian diaspora. What Israel is doing to Gaza is directly inspired by what Assad did to Yarmouk,” Abu Sleiman said.

He smirked at the mention of ‘unified fronts in solidarity with the Palestinians,’ particularly Hezbollah’s involvement.

“Hezbollah defends Gaza? Look at what it did to Yarmouk,” he said bitterly, accusing Lebanese and Iraqi Shiite militias — “who wielded more power than Assad himself” — of participating in massacres of civilians in the camp.

The 2011 uprising quickly disrupted the fragile stability of Yarmouk, but it was the violence unleashed in 2012 against the neighborhood that drove it firmly into opposition.

“They slaughtered residents, others were burned alive in tires or beaten to death with iron rods. Women, children, even men were raped, forced to endure this abomination in front of their families,” said Abu Sleiman, echoing the testimony of other witnesses in Yarmouk.

Hezbollah claims to exist only to support Palestinians - and yet it murdered, raped and burned Palestinians, doing to them what Hamas did to Israelis.

Assad claimed to be pro-Palestinian - yet he besieged Yarmouk, cutting off water and electricity, not allowing in food nor allowing residents to flee in 2014.

All Arabs claim that the Palestinian cause is near and dear to their hearts, that it is the top priority in the region, that they are crying with suffering Palestinians. Yet at the drop of a keffiyeh many will happily rape and murder the same Palestinians that they claim they care so much about.

Arabs only pretend to care about Palestinians when they can blame Jews for their plight. But when the Palestinians are in their own countries, they are treated as if they are...Jews.