Chemical weapon attack on Syrian Palestinian Arabs have ignited their supporters? Not really

...Then again, this story's tragic seriousness seems to demand some exposure. So what sort of exposure has it gotten, particularly from those quarters where Palestinian Arab perpetual victimhood is at the heart of their outlook? From checking, the answer seems to be: almost none.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
24 July '13..

We don't know any more about what is really going on inside Syria than most people do.

There's no shortage of reports, of course, but there is a great shortage of reliable objective eye-witness reporting and reporters there. In fact, there always has been, since Syria has long been one of the most oppressive regimes in the world in general, and in its treatment of news reporters in particular.

In declaring that the imprisonment of journalists worldwide reached a record high in 2012, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ranked Syria in the top 3 worst offenders, along with Turkey and Eritrea. Syria is 173rd out of 178 countries in the world press freedom index published by Reporters Without Borders in October 2010. It is also on the organization’s list of Internet Enemies. The Syrian tyrant Assad is regarded as one of the world’s 38 “Predators of Press Freedom”.

Still, there's something illuminating about the way one of the most recent, and certainly one of the most disturbing, reports to have emerged from the Arab-on-Arab Syrian carnage is being ignored.

Let's start with the places where the reports have not been ignored. Source #1, published two days ago, says:

Assad used chemical weapons against Palestinian refugee camp, opposition claims | The Syrian National Coalition has accused the Bashar Assad regime of using chemical weapons against civilians in Yarkmouk, the Palestinian refugee camp located south of Damascus. In a statement published on the Syrian opposition umbrella group's Facebook page Monday, it called on the international community to intervene and protect the civilians from the regime, which "does not hesitate to use all forms of weapons, including chemical." According to the coalition, testimonies collected clearly prove that poisonous gas and chemical rockets were used by the Syrian Army against civilians. They did not report the number of casualties and no video footage was published that corroborates the use of chemical weapons. Yarmouk is one of the largest suburbs of Damascus, where tens of thousands of Syrians and Palestinians live side by side.

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