Today’s Deaths Were Not About The Nakba

Jim Muir for the BBC:

In past years, Syria has prevented Palestinian protesters from getting anywhere near the sensitive Golan border, where Damascus has in the past scrupulously respected its truce agreement with Israel […] The unusual flare-ups on the Golan and on the Lebanese border came as President Bashar al-Assad’s regime moved into its third month of confronting its biggest internal challenge in more than 40 years of rule by his family and the Baath Party. It would be hard not to see a link between the two developments..

The same thing applies to south Lebanon:

If Hezbollah had not wanted the display of Palestinian refugee militancy at Maroun al-Ras on the south Lebanon border with Israel to happen, it would not have happened.

In case you still didn’t get it: The Palestinians and Lebanese were the pawns in a dirty game to save the neck of the Assad regime.