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'Palestinians' involved in Syrian protests?

Here's an interesting tidbit from an NPR report on Friday's and Saturday's anti-government riots in Syria.

Syrian presidential advisor Bouthaina Shaaban said Qatar-based Sheik Youssef al-Qaradawi had incited Sunnis to revolt with his sermon in Doha on Friday. Al-Qaradawi, who has millions of followers around the world and is seen as one of most influential voices in Sunni Islam; told his audience that, "Today the train of revolutions arrived at a station that was inevitable it would reach: the station of Syria."

"Syria is like the others — and it is more deserving than others of these revolutions," he said. "When there are those who are killed, know that the revolution has been victorious!"

Shabaan said those words were responsible for the unrest in Latakia.

"There was nothing [in Lattakia] before Qaradawi's sermon on Friday," she told reporters in Damascus. "Qaradawi's words were a clear and honest invitation for sectarian strife."

Shaaban said that a group of Palestinians had come into Latakia from a refugee camp with weapons and opened fire, killing a policeman and two protesters.

"These are not peaceful protests demanding accelerated reforms ... what is happening in Syria now is an attempt to sow civil strife," she said.

A resident of Latakia who spoke to The Associated Press from home reported hearing gunfire Saturday evening.

A Syrian official told The Associated Press that two passersby were killed and two others wounded in Latakia by sniper fire from rooftops. He denied that the army had opened fire on protesters.

Does this mean that the 'Palestinians' are emerging from their refugee camps in Syria to protest that they are tired of being held hostage after 63 years for the 'return' to 'Palestine'? Will they rise up and demand equal rights in countries like Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq where huge 'Palestinian' communities are kept in apartheid 'refugee camps' to await their 'triumphant return' to 'Palestine'? If so, I am all in favor.

Labels: Arab apartheid, Palestinian refugees, Syrian regime change

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:51 AM