Friday, August 12, 2011

Tal Az-Za`tar camp

It is the anniversary of the fall of Tal Az-Za`tar camp.  Somebody should write a dissertation.  It has so many dimensions: the Lebanese internal dimensions and the regional one as Syria and Israel were on the same side backing the right-wing death squads.  It is also about the PLO leadership of `Arafat: how he ignored key military advice to run through East Beirut to save the camp.