While it is clear to any long time observer of this struggle, that the Palestinians of Yarmouk long ago threw their lot in with the Syrian revolution, and went against the regime; we now see a new interpretation of events being promoted by pro-Assad Iranian mouthpieces like PressTV and echoed by various US anti-imperialists in which the poor Palestinians are victims of Western-backed foreign jihadists which have turned the camp into a battlefield, and so the siege of Yarmonk is really being carried out jointly by both the regime and its opposition and the regime is forced to attack and starve everyone to get at the rebels. Learn to expect this thesis whenever people rebel. This piece, published a few days ago in the Palestine Chronicle is a powerful rebuttal to its application to Yarmouk
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:45:24 +0000
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