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Anti-Israeli 'criminals' killing only Arabs
munaeem | 22 May, 2007 13:18
Lebanon's independent Daily Star described Fatah Al Islam, suspected to be working from the Nahr Al Bared refugee camp, as a "seemingly marginal group of Islamist militants" and the clashes as demonstrating how "precarious the security situation is in this country."
The English-language daily argued that while the group claims its primary objective is to train Palestinians to fight "Jews in Palestine," the only people who have been killed at their hands have been Lebanese and Palestinians.
It maintained that Lebanon is the Arab country to have paid the highest price in lives and livelihoods lost to the Arab-Israeli conflict and that Sunday's events should "serve as a reminder to Lebanese leaders of all political stripes that there is an urgent need to implement measures that were agreed upon with the heads of the Palestinian factions, all of whom have denounced Fatah Al Islam."
The paper suggested creating a framework "so that a small band of criminals can never succeed in destabilizing this country and jeopardizing relations between Palestinian refugees and Lebanese civilians."
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