Naksa – Palestinians Killed by the Syrian Government

06 Jun 2011 11:30 PM PDT
Shoshana Bryen
Senior Director for Security Policy
JINSA Report #: 1,096
June 6, 2011

http://www.jinsa.org/node/2330

Over the weekend, the Syrian government killed 122 people. What’s that? You say some of them were killed by the IDF? No. The Palestinians killed on the Syria-Israel border were sent to their death by Bashar Assad, desperate to deflect attention from the more than 1,200 Syrians he has killed in the past few months, including another 100-plus over the weekend.

The West is slowly and reluctantly concluding that Assad more closely resembles his father – the Butcher of Hama – than the “reformer” Mrs. Clinton and Sen. Kerry want him to be. His victims include unarmed demonstrators, teenagers, women and people who were tortured until they died. More than 10,000 Syrians have been arrested by their government, many of whom disappeared without a trace and a few of whom were returned to their families in bags. Whole villages have been looted, and they’re the lucky ones; tanks have rolled through others, firing.

The oddity Sunday was that the Palestinians were willing to do his bidding, willing to be the bauble that distracted the West, willing to march across what they knew to be a well-defended border, willing to let Junior Butcher decide the time, place and manner of their demise. Or it isn’t odd – the Palestinians have been pawns of their “Arab brothers” since the days of the British Mandate; cats’ paws in Arab efforts to kill Jews and erase Israel.