Lebanon must deal with Palestinian death cults

NY Times:

The radical Palestinian militiamen operating a checkpoint here south of Beirut seemed to be from another era, vestiges of the bloody civil war in the 1970's and 80's.

But two days after missiles flew from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, prompting Israeli warplanes to pound local camps in the worst cross-border fighting in years, they were also something else: a challenge to the Lebanese government.

Lebanese politicians have begun focusing attention on the Palestinian militias as a critical security issue and have vowed to disarm them.

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The Palestinian militias that persist in Lebanon Â? and operate from points like in Naameh Â? are mostly rogue groups like Fatah Intifada and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Both are based in Syria; neither is part of the Palestine Liberation Organization. They are estimated to have fewer than 500 men between them.

But Lebanese officials note that in recent confrontations with the Lebanese Army, their ranks have swelled. The officials accuse Syria of resupplying them with weaponry.

"These are Syrian groups, not Palestinian groups," said the Druse leader Walid Jumblatt, a main leader of the anti-Syrian majority in Parliament. "As long as you have uncontrolled armed groups with the pretext of liberation, Lebanon will not have stability."

In mid-May one group clashed with Lebanese Army soldiers in the Bekaa region, the third incident of its kind in a year.

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Members of the real estate worshipping death cult are a menace where ever they are and no country should tolerate their presents.