(BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Dr. Edy Cohen - The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria recently documented 3,840 cases of Palestinians killed since the onset of the Syrian civil war in 2011. An additional 1,682 Palestinians are still missing. Moreover, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Syria have lost their homes and employment. Yet not one official in the Palestinian Authority has publicly condemned the Assad regime. When a Hamas or Islamic Jihad terrorist from Gaza is killed by IDF soldiers, Mahmoud Abbas requests international protection for the Palestinians. When Palestinians are killed by other Arabs, no one in the Arab world cares - not even among the Palestinians themselves, whether in the PA or Hamas. Abbas has never repudiated Assad or Iran for killing Palestinians. The writer is a researcher at the BESA Center.
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