Response to Ammar Abdulhamid of the Syrian National Salvation Front

The Syrian opposition group the National Salvation Front [NSF] really has an amusing set of characters. The NSF and its propagandists like to portray the group as a coalition of democratic opponents who seek to free their country from the Assad regime. However, when you look at the people, it’s not the kind of organization that it likes to portray itself. It’s led by Abdul Halim Khaddam, a Baathist, and until recently, the main group was the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most pro-Al Qaeda branches of the Muslim brotherhood. The Syrian Muslim brotherhood and Al Qaeda set up a radical Islamic terrorist cell in Hamburg. In hamburg, some notorious radical Islamic terrorists are members of Al Qaeda and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Khaddam is a member of the Baath party. By the way Khaddam, the Syrian regime was just as much of a terrorist regime when you were Vice President of it and when you worked for decades for it than it is today. 

There are many undesirable aspects of the NSF and more reasons that explain why it is that when it comes to that group, the enemy of our enemy is not our friend.

In this article, I will refute an anti-Israel Pallywood libel by Ammar Abdulhamid, a founding member of the NSF. He claims that:

Palestinians are in many ways doing everything the Zionists did to create their state. Their violence is neither unusual nor unique. Some would argue that it is even more “justified,” since they are seeking to liberate part of their original homeland, most Palestinians having already accepted the right of Israel to exist. Can we blame the Palestinians for being as prone to violence as any other people in the same circumstances? I mean, personally, I do condemn violence, and I am not one of those people who condone suicide bombings for any reason. But the circumstances of the struggle, and the way the world is responding to it, are such that the Palestinians seem to be encouraged indeed to think of themselves and, hence, act as ultimate victims.

This is an example where one of the members of the “lovely” NSF puts a human face to Palestinian terrorism. He repeats this classic anti-Israel propaganda claim. First off, the killing of innocent people is never justified, no matter what. 

Palestinian terrorism, which our good NSF friend Ammar Abdulhamid seems to support, targets innocent men, women and children in Israel. He claims that most Palestinians already accept Israel’s right to exist. Many Palestinians do. But the ones who commit these terrorist acts and are members of the groups that do don’t recognize Israel’s right to exist. Some Zionists did some extremist violent acts. However, those Zionists were condemned by other Zionists. Like for example, most Zionists condemn the massacre at Deir Yassin. In fact, the first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion fought against the Irgun and disarmed it. The difference is that the Zionists sought to create a state where Jews can be freed of persecution in their historical homeland, whereas the Palestinian terrorists seek to impose tyranny and destroy Israel. They’re fighting a genocidal terrorist war against Israel that was there way before the so-called occupation of the disputed territories, which began in 1967. Yet our good NSF friend has the nerve to put a human face to the Palestinian Nazi terrorist war [by the way the Palestinian terrorist movement was founded by Hitler's best friend in the Arab world Amin Al-Husseini, who in Berlin radio said to "kill the Jews wherever you find them," and took part in violent acts against Jewish men, women and children like in the Farhud, when he and others who plotted the pro-Nazi coup in Iraq failed and even led the Hebron massacre, which massacred every Jew in Hebron and cleansed Hebron of the Jewish people until 1967 when the Jewish community was reestablished there after Israel's 1967 victory]. He has the nerve to demonize Zionism, a movement that built a thriving democracy in the Middle East, and to whitewash a genocidal terrorist war on Israel.

Yet Ammar also claims that:

Well, I guess due to our particular backgrounds none of us can actually claim neutrality when dealing with the issue of the Arab-Israeli struggle. Nonetheless, our mutual commitment to the use of language to defer violence already creates a bond between us that I am sure would help us forge ahead with this dialogue regardless of the touchiness of the issue involved. Having said this, let me respond to couple of points you made in your answer to this question.

• Can the Palestinians realistically be expected to sympathize or show any sign of reciprocity with the Israelis where there is nothing yet created on the ground that can give them any sense of closure? Sympathy seems to be the prerogative of the strong.

Again, let me say this. Israel is 100% the victim. Israel is willing to trade the territories for peace. But Israel needs more secure borders, as this country has to deal with all this genocidal Nazi BS that seeks to eliminate Israel and terrorizes Israeli men, women and children. That last question by our NSF friend makes the Palestinians seem like the victims of Israel. Our NSF friend joins in the pallywood onslaught in turning the Arab-Israeli conflict on its head. He dresses the side of barbarism and tyranny in the Arab-Israeli conflict in fashionable clothes.

The fact that the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood was the main group in the NSF already shows that when it comes to the NSF, the enemy of our enemy is not our friend. The NSF is anti-Israel, and many of the members of this group have undesirable backgrounds with connections to terrorists.