(Gatestone Institute) Bassam Tawil - In Syria, Palestinians are worried about a new government law that considers them "foreigners," which would deprive them of the ability to purchase real estate. In Lebanon, Palestinians are also considered to be foreigners and are "prevented from employment in 39 professions such as medicine, law and engineering," according to UNRWA. Arab citizens of Israel, by contrast, have Israeli citizenship, can own, buy and sell property, can vote and run in national and local elections, and have equal access to public healthcare and education. Many serve in senior positions in hospitals, universities and colleges, courts, the civil service, and even in the Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces. Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011, 4,214 Palestinians living there have been killed and more than 15,000 wounded, according to the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria (AGPS). 3,076 Palestinians are currently being detained in the prisons of the Syrian security services, while another 333 have gone missing. Fayez Abu Eid, a spokesperson for AGPS, said the Syrian security services have killed 643 Palestinians under torture in their detention centers. Those who are condemning Israel for defending itself against the savagery and terrorism of Hamas care nothing about the plight of the Palestinians in Syria or any Arab country. So-called pro-Palestinian groups in the U.S. do not speak out against Arab crimes against the Palestinians; they are too busy unjustly demonizing Israel. If these activists want to end the suffering of the Palestinians, they should be demanding that the Arab countries end their discriminatory and repressive measures against their Palestinian brethren. The real anti-Palestinians are not the Israelis at all, but those who cannot be bothered to learn the truth about the actual human rights abuse of Palestinians, delivered at the hands of Arabs.
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