Tears of Yarmouk – The Palestinian Lesson that Every Syrian Should Know | Ramzy Baroud

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Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust

March 5, 2014

In the early days of the Syrian uprising-turned civil war three years ago, the writing on the wall of it becoming an intricate regional and international conflict was there for all to see.

Palestinians in Syria were likely to find themselves a pawn in a dirty war, but few could have predicted the magnitude of the crisis, and perhaps, few cared.

Despite their many differences, there are two common denominators that unite all the parties involved in the Syrian conflict. One is that they are all contributing, directly or otherwise, to the killing of Syrians with unmitigated impunity, savageness even. And, two, in the same breath, they all pose as defenders of the Syrian people. It is not a puzzle, but the nature of dirty conflicts.

Yet all the "defenders" of the Syrian people, with no exception, are now scarred. No media campaign, hearty speech or amount of money could alter this reality. The regime of Bashar al-Assad can make all sorts of claims, but there is no changing the fact that the Syrian army has killed thousands of innocent Syrian civilians. The same logic applies to the opposition and their allies, some hastily declaring "Islamic states" and emirates on conquered territories.

The Syrian people can never peacefully co-exist with the current power structure in Damascus, nor with those offering themselves as the alternative.

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1. Abbas stated it's better all these Palestinians die than give up their RoR....

...in order to leave Syria by going to the W.Bank. That was over a year ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/palestinian-leader-rejects-deal-syria-refugees-105551580.html

The Palestinian president said he has rejected a conditional Israeli offer to let Palestinian refugees in war-torn Syria resettle in the West Bank and Gaza, charging it would compromise their claims to return to lost homes in Israel.
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Abbas said he asked U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon last month to seek Israeli permission to bring Palestinians caught in Syria’s civil war to the Palestinian territories. The request came after fighting between Syrian troops and rebel fighters in Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. About half of the camp’s 150,000 residents have fled, according to a U.N. aid agency.

Abbas told a group of Egyptian journalists in Cairo late Wednesday that Ban contacted Israel on his behalf.

Abbas said Ban was told Israel “agreed to the return of those refugees to Gaza and the West Bank, but on condition that each refugee … sign a statement that he doesn’t have the right of return (to Israel).”

“So we rejected that and said it’s better they die in Syria than give up their right of return,” Abbas told the group.

It's still not too late for thousands of refugees in Syria, so.....where's the BDS crowd to pressure Abbas into reversing himself, thereby saving thousands of Palestinian refugees in Syria? Where are all the pro-Palestinian advocates of refugees?

Why the silence if they support the Palestinians so much?

Not even the author of this OP, Ramzy Baroud, has spoken out about Abbas' death sentence from > 1 year ago. Is he unaware? If so, why?