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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• July 21, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The 450,000
Palestinians in Lebanon are still banned from several professions,
especially in the fields of medicine and law. They refer to these
restrictions as apartheid measures. The Lebanese apartheid measures
against Palestinians are rarely mentioned in the Western media and international
human rights groups. The UN does not seem overly concerned about this
discrimination.
- Palestinian
refugee camps in Lebanon have become in the past few decades bases for
various innumerable militias and terrorist groups.
- The United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, is
formally in charge of the refugee camps in Lebanon, including those
that are now providing shelter to Islamist terrorists.
- The Lebanese
authorities are increasingly running out of patience with the growing
Islamist threat.
The Wavel refugee camp for Palestinians, near Baalbek in
Lebanon, which is administered by UNRWA. (Image credit: European Commission
DG ECHO)
ISIS is on the mind of the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership. Top
PA officials have expressed concern that jihadi groups, including ISIS,
have managed to infiltrate Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Lebanese authorities are also worried -- so worried that they have
issued a stiff warning to the Palestinians: Stop the terrorists or else we
will take security into our own hands.
According to Lebanese security sources, more and more Palestinians in
Lebanon have joined ISIS and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, a
Sunni Islamist militia fighting against Syrian government forces. In
response, the Lebanese security forces have taken a series of measures in a
bid to contain the problem and prevent the two Islamist terror groups from
establishing bases of power in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
by Burak Bekdil
• July 21, 2016 at 4:30 am
- Turkey now will
be an even more difficult place to live in for dissidents. President
Erdogan is already talking about the reintroduction of death penalty.
- The Security
General Department (which runs the police force) issued a statement
calling on citizens to inform them about any social media material
that supports terrorists, the Gulen organization or that contains
anti-government propaganda material.
Turkey's NTV TV shows soldiers involved in coup attempt
surrendering on Istanbul's Bosphorus bridge with their hands raised, July
15, 2016.
Everything looked surreal in Turkey; soldiers inviting the head of the
police anti-terror squad for a "meeting" only to shoot him in the
head; top brass, including the chief of the military general staff, air
force commander, land forces commander and gendarmerie commander, being
taken hostage by their own aide-de-camps; then people taking to the streets
in their thousands to resist the coup d'état, taking over tanks, getting
killed, soldiers opening fire at the civilians and finally the victorious
pro-Erdogan people lynching coup-staging soldiers wherever they could grab
them.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused his formerly
staunchest political ally, a Muslim cleric in exile in the United States,
Fethullah Gulen, and his loyalists within the military. Appearing before a
crowd of party fans, Erdogan pleaded to Washington for "the
terrorist" Gulen's extradition.
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