A fierce competition between Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS ( Da'ish) to woo Palestinians and pledges being made by both groups that soon "the Zionist invaders will experience Allah's wrath until they have been destroyed and Palestine is liberated."
Meanwhile, Anthony Glees, Director of the Center for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, is warning that Zionists will be among the jihadis' main targets in the coming days and especially given Daesh spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani prediction that Ramadan would be a "calamity for kuffars."
Peter Neumann, director of International Center for the Study of the Radicalization and Political Violence at King's College London claimed this week that a growing battle for influence between Al Qaeda (al Nusra) and Daish will be suffered by Jewish institutions in Europe and in still occupied Palestine.
Jobs for all who need them?
Some strapping Palestinians are being offered a job in a country where they are forbidden by law to work or even to own a home. Da'ish is reportedly offering on average $ 300 a month, two and sometimes three days off each week to visit one's family, cash bonuses for marriage and one-time child subsidies of $400 per child. Also being offered are subsidies for food of $70 a month. (UNWRA has just reduced monthly cash for food stipends to $ 30 per month.
One can imagine what some of the camp resident are thinking about which horse may be the best to bet on for an improved life and for Full Return to their own country.
Based on conversations with recently arrived Palestinian refugees from Syria as well as old friends in Lebanon's camps, this observer is confident that today only a small percentage of Palestinians are responding to the siren calls and come hither beckoning from ISIS (Da'ish).
But tomorrow?
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