Fake Palestinian “Resistance” in Lebanon’s Refugee Camps

* The Palestinian “resistance” outside Palestine is long dead and buried.

* The remaining armed Palestinian movements inside Lebanon’s camps are the fringe extremist Islamic fundamentalist terrorists who freely and illegally travel out and into the camps, while the Fatah Movement representing the Palestinian Authority, has repeatedly declared it no longer needs to be armed, as long as the Lebanese Army protects the camps.

* The fundamentalist Islamists occasionally launch rockets at Israel under the direction of the Iranian terror organization of Hezbollah, for the specific objective of sending messages to Israel or inviting retaliation then complain about Israeli aggression.

* The current infighting between secular Fatah and Islamist Hamas proxies inside the Ayn Helweh Camp near Sidon is ample proof that the Lebanese Christian war against the Palestinian militias in 1975 was justified. Operating outside the legitimate purview of the Lebanese State, Yasser Arafat (and his Lebanese Muslim and Druze allies) was given the green light by Henry Kissinger and Assad of Syria to dismantle the Lebanese State, evict the Lebanese Christians out of the country, and create for himself a substitute Palestine. In which case, Israel would not have to worry about the "Right of Return" of millions of Palestinian refugees back to the Palestine that the Jewish invaders raped to create Israel. The Lebanese Christian resistance put an end to the Syrian-American-Palestinian-Saudi plot, though it emerged bruised from the 15-year conflict (1975-1990).

* Palestinians have now mostly wised up, except the fundamentalist Islamist proxies of Hezbollah. The current infighting inside Ayn Helweh Camp is perhaps a reminder from Hezbollah to its many Lebanese enemies that it can ignite problems. As it is cornered politically into an impasse, Hezbollah is obstructing the election of a president and is dismantling the institutions one after another. It might feel that inviting the Lebanese Army to crush the Palestinians, like it did in Nahr Bared camp in 2007, might create new facts on the ground that would relieve Hezbollah of some of the pressure it is reeling under.

* First, by threatening the security situation with its Islamist friends inside the camps, Hezbollah is trying to force the Lebanese to comply with its Iranian agenda. Second, it aims at undermining the state’s sovereignty by attacking both the Palestinian and Lebanese legitimate authorities. Third, it sends a message to the international community, which is heavily involved in trying to break through the stalemate and the collapse of the Lebanese state, that it – Hezbollah – controls Lebanon’s stability and that it will not accept that its dominant position, based on its standing army of terrorists and weapons, be in any way threatened.

A reminder that the Lebanese Parliament had abrogated the Cairo Accord of 1969 with Law 25/1987, followed by the Taef Agreement and UN resolutions 1559 and 1701, as well as the resolutions of the many Lebanese Dialogue conferences, all of which placed the Palestinian weapons, both inside and outside the camps, under the authority of the Lebanese State and its Army. Yet, Hezbollah’s outlaw posture in Lebanon is aided by an equally outlaw Palestinian posture, and thus Hezbollah’s enabling of radical Islamist Palestinian groups allows it to maintain the justification for its own outlaw posture.

The Palestinian cause has in the past served many dictatorial Arab regimes to keep their own populations in check under the pretense of fighting Israel and recovering Palestine. Now that the Arabs have largely abandoned the Palestinian cause to its owners, the Palestinian people, it is Iran’s turn to abuse it to promote noxious and primitive notions of ultra-religious Muslim governance in the Middle East, in which it ironically meets its nemesis Israel, itself governed by ultra-religious fundamentalist Jewish barbarians.