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A Lengthy Operation, why?

July 19, 2007 · Mustapha Hamoui

Why Is The Naher Al Bared Operation Taking So Long? Pick a wild answer..

There are many legitimate reasons why the Naher Al Bared operation is taking time, but when it comes to some conspiratorial Palestinians like this blogger, there cannot be many options:

1. The actual operation has ended but political figures are planing something for the camp future so they prolong the claimed operation until the new plans are ready. Plans such as those leaked days after the clashes started.
2. or, the Lebanese army is so weak to kill and arrest all the remains of these terrorists despite the fact that there is no stone left standing in the camp after continuous air and artillery shell raids that we heard of, not to mention those we didn’t hear of.

Sabbah was referring to the theory proposed by Hezbollah’s newspaper Al-Akhbar, that the government wants to destroy the camp in order to rebuild it later for a more permanent stay for the Palestinians (tawteen). 

In other words, when Qatar rebuilds Bint Jbeil, it’s a welcome help from a brotherly nation. But when the United Arab Emirates rebuilds Naher Al Bared, it’s a great Sunni conspiracy to put more Sunnis in Lebanon and destroy the Palestinian cause.

As for the attacks “he didn’t hear of”, he was cheekily suggesting Israeli jets bombing the camp hand in hand with their “brothers” in the Lebanese army in a grand conspiracy to kill Palestinians. 

As if the world doesn’t have anything better to do.