Possibly what we need to do most in the case of the Syrian revolution is listen to people who participated in it and those who are facing the abhorrent violence against it. Listen to these Palestinians, now yet again refugees in another land. First the Zionist armies exiled them from their villages in Palestine in 1948, now the armies of Bashar exiled them from Syria, which had became a temporary home. This video is 8:31 of a deeply troubling, deeply painful take on the everyday reality of Palestinians made refugees yet again.
Activism
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/17/c_132044629.htm
i heard elsewhere large portions of Yarmouk refugee camp have been taken over by al-Nusra. here’s FRANKLIN LAMB april 9th:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/09/when-the-yarmouk-palestinian-camp-fled/
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/12/us-sheds-crocodile-tears-over-plight-of-palestinian-refugees.html
More like “Insurgent-aligned Palestinian Refugees from Syria speak out.” Even though there were many secular activists involved in the beginning months of nonviolent protests (when the demands were for reform), once militant factions highjacked the movement (demanding nothing short of Assad’s ouster), the opposition has been overwhelmingly Islamist (Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda) and armed.
Speaking of the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus, the Angry Arab notes that “Palestinian leaders and organizations in Syria (who are opposed to the Syrian regime) mildly and politely ask the Free Syrian Army to end its crimes in the camp”
Al Nusra front will kill anyone who gets in the way of a Sharia non democratic state, if they came to power Hezbollah would be next on the list, these people are throat cutting fanatics backed by the Saudis and Gulf states and are eager to forment sectarian civil war in the region, fortunately the more secular Sunni and other minority sects in Syria will defeat them, as the Sunni tribes have done in Iraq. The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, said his group had trained and funded fighters from Syria’s al-Nusra Front – which is blacklisted by the United States – since the early days of the two-year-old uprising.
He said in a statement posted on Islamist websites and seen by Reuters on Tuesday that the two groups would operate under the joint title of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
“It’s now time to declare in front of the people of the Levant and the world that al-Nusra Front is but an extension of the Islamic State of Iraq and part of it,” Baghdadi said.
“We thus declare … the cancellation of the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the name of al-Nusra Front and grouping them together under one name, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,”.
Recently, one of the anti-Syrian fundamentalist groups kidnapped Christian religious leaders in Syria. There is a petition for our government to seek their release.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/appeal-president-obama-and-his-government-release-two-abducted-orthodox-christian-archbishops-syria/xNskxL1q