Assad gone maybe better for Palestine and the resistance in general
A new dawn of resistance may be upon us. The fact that Baathist Syria cloaked itself in the garb of support for the struggle for pan-Arab victory over the Israeli enemy, from the 1970s on, while perpetrating some of the most horrific state crimes against its own people and others, meant that the Palestinian cause would always be tainted by this association. Now the regime has finally collapsed, that taint has been lifted and the struggle for a free Palestine, having shed its reluctant Arab support, Baathist, Gulfist and Nassarist, may have a renewal unlike any other. The pressure on the Palestinian people living within Israeli occupied territories will serve to fill the ranks of the home grown resistance and give added impetus and urgency to the cause of liberation, more out of self-preservation than ideological principle, as in fight or die. So, thanks, I guess, Mr. Nitinyahu, you may have weakened and destroyed the already weak Arab dictatorships, but you have streng...