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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 02:35 PM Apr 2015

Yarmouk Siege: Palestinian Aid Organization Director Puzzled by Global Inaction

The director of a Palestinian aid organization forced to flee the violence at Yarmouk Camp outside Damascus says he is disappointed by the international community's failure to act to resolve the humanitarian crisis there.

He told NBC News he is puzzled by a call from the U.N. Security Council to establish humanitarian access when ISIS is operating openly at the refugee camp.

"Nobody can get in," said Wasem Sabaaneh, who directs an NGO that until last week delivered aid inside the camp.

"How they will have access to Yarmouk Camp if there is ISIS control?" Sabaaneh said. "Who will be there to send food, drugs, or any kind of humanitarian help inside Yarmouk Camp if there is ISIS control?"

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/yarmouk-siege-palestinian-aid-organization-director-puzzled-global-inaction-n339356

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Yarmouk Siege: Palestinian Aid Organization Director Puzzled by Global Inaction (Original Post) oberliner Apr 2015 OP
What's there to be puzzled about? Scootaloo Apr 2015 #1
Did you not read the article? oberliner Apr 2015 #2
nearly everything Wasem Sabaaneh had to say was in the snip in fact the article title is misleading azurnoir Apr 2015 #3
And so ? He still said it and I'm pretty sure he knows more about what's going on there King_David Apr 2015 #6
I experience that puzzled feeling myself shaayecanaan Apr 2015 #4
Another "Look over there, Israel is bad" post oberliner Apr 2015 #5
hardly shaayecanaan Apr 2015 #7
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
1. What's there to be puzzled about?
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 03:12 PM
Apr 2015

A little perspective.

1) The United States pays an annual $3bn bounty for the killing and oppression of Palestinians in Palestine. Occasionally it pays out even more, or just donates weapons to the cause. The united States would also rather see Daesh seize Syria fully, than there be any chance of Assad pulling through (thus why it continues to fund Daesh via proxy, and provides weapons and training ot factions that then "join" Daesh.)

2) Europe hems and haws a lot about Palestinain lives and rights, but offers only inaction. Europe has a deep-seated hatred of Muslims, and is chick full of neo-nazi political parties that target them for exclusion, expulsion and, on the street level, violence. Europe also quivers in abject terror that if it ever extends a hand to Palestinians, Israel will call them 'antisemites" which might send some European nations into a suicidal spiral of depression. As with the United States, the EU would rather have the murderosu chaos of Daesh than the Assad regime.

3) Russia wants Assad to win, but isn't likely to go marching forth. apparently that Ukraine adventure is pretty costly. Russia's support for Palestinians only goes as far as it takes to annoy the United States (which isn't very far.)

4) With the exception of Iraq, the other Arab states want Syria to fall as well. That's why they're funding, arming, and receuitign for Daesh and its affiliates. a sudden opposition would be out of character. And if these states gave a damn about Palestinains, they would have been exerting pressure to enforce their right to go home.

5) Iraq is, as noted, an exception. Iraq is also getting its ass kicked by Daesh though, and isn't really in the running.

6) Israel would rather perch on Golan hilltops and have a picnic with the the kids while passing around binoculars so everyone can enjoy the show of seeing the Palestinians chopped to little pieces. As with most of the others noted, they prefer Daesh to Assad, as well.

7) Who's that leave, then?

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
2. Did you not read the article?
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 03:15 PM
Apr 2015

Wasem Sabaaneh makes very clear what he is puzzled about.

Maybe you can send him an email to help clear up his confusion since you've got it all figured out.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
3. nearly everything Wasem Sabaaneh had to say was in the snip in fact the article title is misleading
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 07:33 PM
Apr 2015

not to mention attention grabbing, the rest of article outlines UNRWA's/UN's difficulties and dangers in delivering humanitarian aid along with the history of Yarmouk during the Syrian civil war and in particular since the IS invasion. Sabaaneh is mentioned once more near the end of the article repeating some of what was said at the beginning

King_David

(14,851 posts)
6. And so ? He still said it and I'm pretty sure he knows more about what's going on there
Sat Apr 11, 2015, 08:44 AM
Apr 2015

Than a group of armchair want to be Palestinian activists typing on their computers on DU.






shaayecanaan

(6,068 posts)
4. I experience that puzzled feeling myself
Sat Apr 11, 2015, 02:08 AM
Apr 2015

particularly when certain bomb attacks in Israel don't seem to attract the same concern as other kinds of bomb attacks:-



Some kinds of bomb attacks send the hasbaradoes into furious bouts of online rhetorical masturbation, others are met with stony silence.

Its a very curious thing.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/israel-gang-violence-anti-terror-tactics-ashkelon

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
5. Another "Look over there, Israel is bad" post
Sat Apr 11, 2015, 06:26 AM
Apr 2015

This one going back to 2013.

So the approach of the antiharsbarados to addressing what is happening to the Palestinians in Yarmouk is either:

1. Ignore what's going on.

2. Blame Israel for it.

3. Say that Israel does worse things.

shaayecanaan

(6,068 posts)
7. hardly
Sat Apr 11, 2015, 09:06 AM
Apr 2015

Fratricidal violence gets less attention. The world cared when white police killed blacks at sharpeville, not so much now that black police are doing the killing:-

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikana_miners%27_strike

Now, at the same time that the apartheid government was killing thousands the Angolan civil war was killing a hundred times that number, and yet the world cared nary a jot. Many of the African governments that criticized the south Africans had far more blood on their hands than the Afrikaners.

Of course, good liberal whites in the US (including many Jewish liberals) criticised apartheid and ignored the Angolan civil war and the Congo civil war.

On the flipside, when ZANU PF in Zimbabwe killed a couple of white farmers it made world news, less so when they drummed to death hundreds of their fellow blacks.

It is always more contentious when whites or blacks or Arabs or Jews or Muslims or Christians kill each other rather than themselves. I'm just not sure why you think Israel should be exempt from this phenomenon, given that it applies to everyone else?

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