This Guy Says Palestinians In Lebanon Keep Their Weapons Because They’re Afraid Of Another Sabra And Shatila

Matthew Cassel walks into Lebanese Palestinian camps and asks people why they keep their weapons. Here’s a typical response:

“Our weapons don’t necessarily make me feel safer, especially with the internal problems that we have in the camps here like in Palestine. But if we were to give them up, we’d have no protection. At least with our weapons if we die, we die standing and not like in Sabra and Shatila when we were massacred without even one weapon to resist. If the Lebanese army was able to protect us from Israel, then there would be no need for Palestinians to have weapons.”

Everyone keeps talking about how most Lebanese still keep arms in their closets “Just in case”, but at least they pretend that they trust the Army as their legitimate source of protection. That was the whole point of Taef.