The Pro-Palestinian Myth
Where did Pro-Palestinian support come from, how did it start, and the sad reality of pro-Palestinian support - by Peter A. Baum
Editor’s note: The recent attack by Hamas which killed more than 800 Israelis inevitably forced many to take a stand; this republished post reflects the geopolitical environment of 2019.
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originally published 15-December-2019 on DecisiveLiberty.News (archive)
Why The Muted Political And Media Voices Over The Recent Clashes Between The Syrians And Palestinians?
According to the respected London-based monitoring organization Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS), the number of Palestinians killed in Syria’s civil war is staggering.
More than 4,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered, the vast majority being civilians – including nearly 500 women and 200 children.
Remarkably there have been
no pro-Palestinian demonstrations outside any Syrian embassies
no anti-Syrian rhetoric at any UK Labour Party gatherings nor
any statements emanating from the usual band of pseudo-intellectual artists, media luvvies, and fascist left-wing politicians such as Roger Waters and Jeremy Corbyn, expressing either outrage of the Syrian regime and their military backers, Russia, and Iran or in support for their cause celebre the Palestinians.
Academic researchers in the Middle East and political commentators such as myself fully understand the hatred between Syria and the Palestinians.
As long ago as 1976, the departed Syrian President Hafez al Assad, father of the current Syrian President, told the Palestinian leadership…
Do not forget – there is no Palestinian people, no Palestinian entity… there is only Syria.
Given the deathly silence from those voices continuously shouting from the rafters in support of the Palestinians, such a support base ignores the atrocities committed by the tripartite against the Syrian-Palestinian population.
Ironically, the Palestinians neatly housed in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have never spontaneously organized one of their 7,500-plus days of rage in support of their Syrian-Palestinian brothers.
One wonders what the Syrian Palestinians did to deserve such non-support when 20 miles (32 km) to their southern and western borders other Palestinians command global media attention and sensational support from numerous national, political, and artistic quarters.
The public relations officer for Syrian Palestinians should be fired and recruited from Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.
Close To 4,000 Palestinians Were Killed In Syria’s Civil War
Syria Was Home To Some 560,000 Palestinian Refugees Before The War Broke Out In 2011
By ANNA AHRONHEIM, JULY 10, 2019 (author archive/post archive)
image: Workers pull an unidentified body at a mass grave in Raqqa, Syria. The picture was taken on October 16, 2018. (img credit: ABOUD HAMAM / REUTERS)
Close to 4,000 Palestinians have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the country’s civil war in 2011.
According to new figures released by the London-based Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS), a total of 3,987 Palestinians, including 467 women and 200 children, have been killed.
Before the war broke out, Syria was home to some 560,000 Palestinian refugees, the majority of whom lived in 12 Palestinian refugee camps.
Since fighting began, over 85,000 Palestinians fled to Europe while tens of thousands more sought refuge in neighboring countries.
More than 87% of the victims were civilians killed by regime bombings, sniper fire, clashes, torture, fleeing to other countries, and more.
AGPS said that 1,977 Palestinians were killed inside refugee camps.
The Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus had the highest number of casualties with 1,422.
82 Palestinians Were Tortured To Death In Syria Prisons In 2018
January 4, 2019, at 3:24 pm | Published in Middle East, News, Palestine, Syria (link/archive)
The Reality Of Pro-Palestinian Support
How can it be that those who purport to be pro-Palestinian — and the Palestinians themselves — choose to ignore, stay silent, and never protest against Syrians, Russians, and Iranians committing atrocities against their brothers, sisters, and children?
The logic for this phenomenon is easily explained by acknowledging the mythical support for Palestinians is actually rabid opposition to the Jewish State of Israel.
If we for a moment ignore the political debate connected to the rights of Palestinians being allowed to inhabit areas within Israel’s borders and concentrate on Palestinians living in surrounding nations, as we have seen in Syria, Lebanon provides relative safety but under Apartheid.
Palestinians in Lebanon are treated as second-class residents, restricted from working in most fields, banned from owning property, forced to live in run-down camps, and barred from formal education.
Palestinians In Lebanon: ‘It’s Like Living In A Prison’
Trump’s Controversial Jerusalem Decision Has Compounded The Misery Of Palestinian Refugees In Lebanon.
by Lisa Khoury, 16-Dec-2017 (link/archive)
This should surprise, shock, and create contempt for the Lebanese and promote outrage and protestation by those Palestinians and their global political supporters.
But…
Nothing…
Silence, no outrage, no demonstrations nor protests by pro-Palestinian politicians, Islamists, Muslims, and their organized religious support base, college campuses — nor the media!
The contempt, indeed hatred, the Lebanese feel towards their Palestinian neighbors can be traced back to the Damour massacre perpetrated by Palestinians during the 1970s excesses of the barbaric Palestinian militias.
Never reported to any extent by mainstream media, 600 entirely innocent Lebanese men, women, and children were butchered by the Palestinians in order to gain geopolitical, religious, and military control over Lebanon.
Families were made to watch as the Palestinian butchers went through ritual slaughter.
The fact that today’s Lebanese actually tolerate the Palestinians albeit as second-class citizens says more for the Lebanese than it does for the Syrians who massacre them.
Lebanon’s Long-Forgotten Massacre
Perversely, the Palestinian Charters (see the PNC Charters of 1964 (archive) / 1968 (archive) and the Hamas Charter of 1988 (archive)) only demand the extermination of Jews and not of Syrians, Iranians, Russians, or Lebanese.
Is it not ironic to the point of being totally hypocritical, cowardly, and ideologically perverse that the pro-Palestinians remain silent on the atrocities described above perpetrated by the forces of those named nation-states?
The Plight Of The Palestinians Are Replicated In Lebanon, Syria, Iraq
A very similar picture emerges when we analyze the treatment of Palestinians in Iraq.
The Palestinians leveraged the generosity of Iraq’s former leader Sadaam Hussein much to the detriment of ordinary Iraqis.
Sadaam’s Baathist party wanted to have the mantra of being the Arab world’s saviour to the Palestinian cause and promoted their needs above the needs of Iraqis; both Shia and Sunni who opposed the sadistic, mass-murdering Iraqi regime.
Naturally, the Palestinians cared not a jot about their fellow Arab brothers, and on the fall of Sadaam in 2003 and after the bombing of the Shia, Al-Askari Mosque in 2006, ordinary Iraqis took their revenge on the Palestinians.
After both of these events, hundreds of Palestinians were killed by Iraqi and Iranian militias, thousands were ethnically cleansed and those that remained were and still are treated as if under Apartheid.
Once again we witnessed no demonstrations or outrage from the pro-Palestinian global caucus.
As expected, the BBC did not believe these events were worthy of reporting.
‘Nowhere to Flee’ links: post/archive
The plight of Palestinians within Iraq replicates the plight of Palestinians in Syria and Lebanon.
They — the Palestinians — are obviously hated, treated with contempt, and forced to live under apartheid-style conditions.
There are reasons why various strands of Arab nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism behave toward the Palestinians as they do.
The reasons are historic and range from revenge for the Palestinian militant atrocities meted out on other Arab civilian populations and the benefits Palestinians received from Arab leaders to the detriment of their own populations.
This illogical fact occurred simply because those leaders wished to be seen globally in the lead role as the savior of the Palestinians.
Naturally, the Palestinian aggression and inertia toward their fellow Arab hosts have rebounded on them.
The Forgotten Generations: Palestinian Refugees In Iraq
Palestinians In Iraq Face An Uncertain Future With Little Hope Of Escaping Life As Stateless Refugees.
by Claire Thomas
‘The Forgotten Generations’ links: post/archive
The number of Jordanian Palestinians massacred by a combination of the Jordanian army and Pakistani elite forces commanded by General Zia Al-Haq remains in question but many researchers consider that up to 25,000 is realistic.
Additionally, the number of Jordanian Palestinians ethnically cleansed to North Africa surpassed 4 times that number.
For reasons, one can only guess, the plight of these Palestinians has never been an issue for the pro-Palestinian mob.
When A Mathematical Analysis Is Considered
Of Palestinians Killed In The Conflict During The Last 50 Years,
It Is An Unpalatable Fact That
At Least 5 TIMES MORE PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED
BY ‘BROTHER’ ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES AND MILITIAS
Than Their Supposed Enemy The Jewish State Of Israel.
Paradoxically, However, The Palestinian Leadership — Hamas In Gaza And The Palestinian Authority In The West Bank — Both Have Charters Only Calling For Jew Extermination.
Perhaps They Should Concentrate On Their Real Enemies – Syria, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, And Pakistan – Yes?
Given this analysis, is it not therefore evident to all reasonable thinking, morally decent people that the so-called ‘Pro-Palestinian’ activists, whether politicians, celebrities, journalists, and the hate mob are not really pro-Palestinian at all?
They are, in fact, Jew-haters — or as they prefer to be called anti-Zionists.
Black September: The Role of Pakistan’s General Zia-Ul-Haq In the 1970 Massacre of 25,000 Palestinians in Jordan
by Abdul Nishapuri
‘Black September’ links: post/archive
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About Peter A. Baum
Currently the International Political Affairs Editor to WeeklyBlitz.net, Peter is a research scholar and pro-Israel activist who challenges the fake news narrative on Israel, Holocaust, Zionism, the Middle East, Anti-Semitism, and racial issues by providing well-documented content and references to original source documents which uncover their fakery.
You can find Peter regularly contributing to the subject matter through written articles, TV appearances, and lectures.
Peter was chairman of Southend Young Conservatives, a founding member of Southend Friends of Israel, and is currently a delegate on the Board of Deputies and Executive Council member of Fair Reporting.
Peter also writes for several newspapers and research global organizations, including the Gatestone Institute.