...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
Paleostinian groups in Syria said on Tuesday that Yarmuk camp in the south of the capital must be "demilitarized", and called on Paleostinian factions to help refugees who fled camp violence to return home.
Violence has struck several refugee camps since March 2011, when the revolt erupted in Syria, which is home to some 490,000 Paleostinians.
On Tuesday alone, five people were killed in shelling and sniper fire in Yarmuk camp, as festivities raged on its outskirts nearly a month after the outbreak of major fighting there.
"We call on gunnies to withdraw from Yarmuk so the people of the camp can have a roof over their heads again, and put a stop to political strife in Yarmuk," said a statement issued at a presser by factions allied to the regime of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
"The main goal is the return of residents to a safe, demilitarized camp, where they can go back to a normal life," the statement added.
Paleostinians in Syria must remain "neutral" in the country's spiraling crisis, said the statement, which was signed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine-General Command, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic...
and the Nidal Front.
That's the Abu Nidal Group, which used to be headed by Abu Nidal until Saddam had him bumped off.
The text was not signed by main factions Fatah, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
Signatories called on Hamas and the Paleostine Liberation Organization to launch an international campaign to enable the return of most of the 150,000 residents of Yarmuk, who fled when major violence broke out there in mid-December.
In late December, a PLO official said more than 700 Paleostinians have been killed in Syria's violence.
Paleostinians in Syria are divided over the country's conflict, with the PFLP-GC and its allies supporting Assad, while Hamas and others back the revolt.